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dembotoz

(16,783 posts)
Wed May 24, 2017, 11:41 AM May 2017

damn, looks like the trump budget is out to get us

i fear as they sharpen their claws we will become somewhat fragmented as we try to protect our own pet programs and our own asses.

lots of programs that help lots of people....

Hell i don't even know what some of these programs do.....

please educate me on what some of these programs do for you so when the congress flunkie lies to my face i can call him out

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damn, looks like the trump budget is out to get us (Original Post) dembotoz May 2017 OP
Food stamps? MFM008 May 2017 #1
personally curious about ssi for mentally disabled dembotoz May 2017 #2
The WH budget meets statutory requirement that the president NCjack May 2017 #3
It does though intensify the process of screwing us over. nt irisblue May 2017 #4

MFM008

(19,803 posts)
1. Food stamps?
Wed May 24, 2017, 12:10 PM
May 2017

Women infant and children known as WIC.
Social Security Disability or SSI. Medical/ medicaid,
Education programs , environmental programs , arts and humanities, housing and just about everything else that isn't at this time Social Security Medicare or military related.

dembotoz

(16,783 posts)
2. personally curious about ssi for mentally disabled
Wed May 24, 2017, 01:17 PM
May 2017

know a couple of families with adult special needs children....1 living in a group home....

real 40 hr a week employment just ain't gonna happen

NCjack

(10,279 posts)
3. The WH budget meets statutory requirement that the president
Wed May 24, 2017, 01:29 PM
May 2017

submit a budget. This one is DOA. The members of congress don't have the guts to pass it.

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