Things I've Said

Category: Social Issues

  • Trump Literally Plans to Starve the Elderly

    Occupy Democrats reports that Trump Just Announced Plan To End Funding For ‘Meals On Wheels’ For Seniors

    Here is a quote from the article, which really highlights the impact that this decision is going to have:

    One popular program facing elimination is “Meals On Wheels,” which uses federal funds from the Department of Housing and Urban Development to mobilize volunteers, businesses and donors to provide nutrition to thousands of senior citizens on a daily basis. It supports over 5,000 community-based organizations across America, reaching people in both urban and rural areas.”

    And this:

    Meals On Wheels alone costs about $3 million a year, which is the cost of just one trip to Trump’s “winter White House.”

    How does it even make sense?  The federal government is going to save a measly $3,000,000 at the expense of our elderly.  How can Trump be so blind to the misery he is inflicting?  Let’s do the math:

    There are 5,000 Meals On Wheels chapters, so: $3,000,000 / 5,000  = $600

    Wait.  So we are talking about reducing funding for each community-based Meals on Wheels chapter by $600 per year.  Quick search, first Meals On Wheels financials I found are for Mercer Count, NJ.  Revenue for 2015: $468,421.  It’s hard for me to imagine that they are going out of business for want of $600.  Which, by the way, is less than the cost of just one vacation of your own.

    If you are concerned that Meals On Wheels is going to collapse, write a $600 check to your local Meals On Wheels chapter.  Or just dig into your pocket and send them $50 (dinner with a date) to cover one month, and get 11 of your friends to do the same.  Ask every working person in your community to pitch in $0.50 (I don’t even know what you can buy for $0.50) per year, and Meals On Wheels would be flooded with cash.  Problem solved.

    By the way – Meals on Wheels is a community-based organization which depends on volunteers to deliver food to the elderly.  I highly recommend that you become a volunteer.  It will help the organization a lot more than those 600 crummy dollars they are losing.

  • Abortion and Marijuana

     
    It is beyond all reckoning how a country could insist that a woman’s right to control her body is a compelling reason to keep abortion legal, and simultaneously prohibit her from ingesting plants of her choosing.

  • I May Have Been Wrong About Trump

    More than once, I predicted with great confidence that Trump’s presidency would not have a great impact on the country. It has barely started, and I am beginning to fear that I was wrong.

    It’s not Trump I’m concerned about. It is the left. The people who say that they want equality, and peace and social justice. The people who claim that those on the right are bigots, war mongers, violent and greedy.

    It’s not just this thing with UC Berkley. That is the latest and (so far) most egregious of the outrages. Since Trump’s startling win on election day, the left has made a point to say that everyone who didn’t vote for Hillary is a racist, bigot, vile, despicable human being. It isn’t good enough to say “I disagree with your judgement”, or “I disagree with your priorities”, or even “You are flat wrong for what you did”. None of these goes far enough to satiate the left. They will not tolerate anything less than outright condemnation of every non-Hillary supporter, and far less the genuine Trump supporters.

    I can live with that. Immature as such behavior is, hurtful and unproductive as it is, it is similar to the outcry from the right when Obama was elected. Worse in degree, I think, but still the same in kind.

    But since the inauguration, things have stepped up a couple of notches, and I am starting to think that it just might be worthy of genuine concern. These lovers of peace and freedom and equality are turning radical in a way that I didn’t expect. I have heard people on the left, in no uncertain terms, state that they were going to intentionally engage in disinformation campaigns. I have heard repeated cheers of support for the guy who sucker-punched Richard Spencer, which I can almost understand. But I’ve also heard the left tearing apart others on the left who decried violence. These are not things I expected to hear from the left.

    Now UC Berkley. I’d love to know how many of the rioters have ever actually listened to Milo Yiannopoulos give a talk? How many of them know who he is only because they have been told by their shepherd media that Milo is bad? Milo is a provocateur, no doubt. But he’s just a guy with some ideas. I’ve never heard him promote violence. He doesn’t promote causing harm to anyone.

    Maybe if the left would take the time to listen to Milo, they could make an informed rebuttal, rather than being the raging, violent mob that tolerates no dissenting opinion. For all the fear people have of vicious dictators who crush anything in the path of their vision, torture and kill any people or group that does not sufficiently support that vision, it somehow slips past the sight of the leftist that it is their political ideology that has actually lead to these horrors.

    I know just enough history to be aware that the most merciless people in history are on the left of the political spectrum. I know that those people who have pitilessly crushed and slaughtered all who oppose them have claimed to be doing so for the good of the people.

    If the left proves me wrong, if we descend into darkness and chaos because of their violent response to Trump’s presidency, I will concede that I was indeed wrong. I had more faith in the left than I should have.