Someone will set up a donation fund for MOW to mock Trump and end up proving his point.
— Federalist Musket?? (@Patriot_Musket) March 16, 2017
Nailed it. https://t.co/CyOL65xemJ https://t.co/Ml6u0YVPsu
— Federalist Musket?? (@Patriot_Musket) March 17, 2017
Plenty of people on the Left are beside themselves over Trump’s proposed budget, which would cut federal funding to, among other things, Meals on Wheels. The national Meals on Wheels program, for the record, receives only about three percent of its total annual funding from the government. So, if you exercise logic, you might ultimately conclude that Meals on Wheels would continue to exist and do its work without the federal government’s help.
And you’d evidently be right:
Meals on Wheels donations, volunteer sign-ups soar after Trump eyes cuts https://t.co/jBwXpxvi9w pic.twitter.com/NXUMt3gy1w
— CNN (@CNN) March 17, 2017
Well, fancy that!
B-b-but I had hand wringing people wailing in my TL all day yesterday that elderly people & small children were gonna DIE from this cut?!
— Happy Thanksgiving & Epstein Didn't Kill Himself (@drawandstrike) March 17, 2017
Why, that doesn’t seem to be the case at all. Who’d’a thunk?!
Oh they can do that without the government? Weird. https://t.co/Se0hGbXs6M
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) March 17, 2017
It's almost like it can survive without 3% funding from the fed. Who could have guessed. ?
— TheBaraclough (@TheBaraclough) March 17, 2017
getting donations so that they don't need federal funding. looks good to me.
— CigarJo (@Jon_Kesler) March 17, 2017
https://twitter.com/LDoren/status/842836864109363204
Good. That's exactly how it should be. https://t.co/kwwRYxPDPX
— ?It's?Almost ⛄️Christmas? (@jtLOL) March 17, 2017
https://twitter.com/Soul_Drinker777/status/842794531926020097
Wonderful news. Just as it should be
— Monica helena (@ipfm4c) March 17, 2017
As it should be. Thinking of signing up to volunteer myself.
— While Supplies Last (@corrcomm) March 17, 2017
good … that's how it's supposed to work.
— Johnny Philistine (@TejasGator) March 17, 2017
Great. This is the way charities are supposed to work.
Individuals decide where their time/$$ should be spent … not Govt.— HeisenbergHattie (@HBergHattie) March 17, 2017
that's the way it should be citizens taking care of each other. Since when did government become the means to charity!!
— Elliot Figueroa (@ElliotFigueroa) March 17, 2017
This is how it should work. Unforced, charitable giving.
— J.Maxx (@Libertarian247) March 17, 2017
Exactly! This is how it should be. Let Americans step up to the plate! Giving is good for the soul. Get govt out of the equation.
— Leeda Wideman (@leedawideman) March 17, 2017
https://twitter.com/Hella_Right/status/842826973948928000
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