You get rickets, and YOU get rickets! EVERYONE gets rickets! Oh, and scarlet fever too. The Trump budget proposal, which like all presidential budgets is make-believe because Congress will do what it damn well pleases, is nonetheless full of not only imaginary revenue and spending priorities, but full of some genuinely terrible ideas for slashing the public safety net and replacing it with a nice big bucket of shame, which ought to finally motivate poor people to stop being poor and go out and become rich. Oh, sure, there's the predictable rightwing wet dream of rolling back the Obamacare Medicaid expansion and converting what's left of the ACA to a block grant to states (with far less funding), plus slashing billions from housing assistance, and just about everything else. But what's really getting attention is an insane proposal to cut benefits for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (aka food stamps) by half and replace the benefits with a monthly delivery of commodity foods from the US Department of Agriculture.
Trump's Budget Dream: Make America A Dickensian Slum Again, 'Blue Apron Style'
Trump's Budget Dream: Make America A…
Trump's Budget Dream: Make America A Dickensian Slum Again, 'Blue Apron Style'
You get rickets, and YOU get rickets! EVERYONE gets rickets! Oh, and scarlet fever too. The Trump budget proposal, which like all presidential budgets is make-believe because Congress will do what it damn well pleases, is nonetheless full of not only imaginary revenue and spending priorities, but full of some genuinely terrible ideas for slashing the public safety net and replacing it with a nice big bucket of shame, which ought to finally motivate poor people to stop being poor and go out and become rich. Oh, sure, there's the predictable rightwing wet dream of rolling back the Obamacare Medicaid expansion and converting what's left of the ACA to a block grant to states (with far less funding), plus slashing billions from housing assistance, and just about everything else. But what's really getting attention is an insane proposal to cut benefits for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (aka food stamps) by half and replace the benefits with a monthly delivery of commodity foods from the US Department of Agriculture.