The Trump budget proposes eliminating all funding for the Special Olympics. I'm sure Ayn Rand would be very proud that those freeloaders will now have to pull their own weight.
Lately I've been thinking a lot about principles versus symbols. That human life is sacred is a principle. Opposition for abortion is the symbolic affirmation of that principle in the minds of many. But when a human life exits the birth canal, a lot of good Christian people stop giving a crap.
USA Today wrote:While proposing to add $60 million more to charter school funding and create a tax credit for individual and companies that donate to scholarships for private schools, DeVos' budget proposal would still cut more than $7 billion from the Education Department, about 10 percent of its current budget. President Trump proposed a $4.7 trillion overall budget this month with an annual deficit expected to run about $1 trillion.
It calls for eliminating billions in grants to improve student achievement by reducing class sizes and funding professional development for teachers as well as cutting funds dedicated to increasing the use of technology in schools and improving school conditions. In many cases, DeVos said the purpose of the grants has been found to be redundant or ineffective.
In the case of the $17.6 million cut to help fund the Special Olympics, a program designed to help children and adults with disabilities, DeVos suggested it is better supported by philanthropy and added, "We had to make some difficult decisions with this budget."
"Do you know how many kids are going to be affected by that cut?" asked U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Wisconsin, while also pointing out a recent report by a nonprofit group that concluded the U.S. government has spent as much as $1 billion on charter schools that never opened or they closed because of mismanagement or other reasons.
I invite anyone on this board to make a case why making America Great Again is predicated on cutting funding to those who are least able to provide for themselves.
"The great problem of any civilization is how to rejuvenate itself without rebarbarization." - Will Durant "We've kept more promises than we've even made" - Donald Trump "Of what meaning is the world without mind? The question cannot exist." - Edwin Land
Here's my case: The Special Olympics does not equal providing for one's self.
"Finally, for your rather strange idea that miracles are somehow linked to the amount of gay sexual gratification that is taking place would require that primitive Christianity was launched by gay sex, would it not?"
MeDotOrg wrote:I invite anyone on this board to make a case why making America Great Again is predicated on cutting funding to those who are least able to provide for themselves.
It's not, but we already know that Trump's supporters are abject assholes, not paying attention, and/or willingly embrace BS.
God belief is for people who don't want to live life on the universe's terms.
“It is unacceptable, shameful and counterproductive that the media and some members of Congress have spun up falsehoods and fully misrepresented the facts. . . . The Special Olympics is not a federal program. It’s a private organization. I love its work, and I have personally supported its mission. Because of its important work, it is able to raise more than $100 million every year. There are dozens of worthy nonprofits that support students and adults with disabilities that don’t get a dime of federal grant money.”
Yet there’s plenty of new cash being penciled in for charter schools. Odd.