You might have noticed that they are a charity and receive donations. If an individual thought they could be their brother's keeper by supporting it they are free to do so. Christ never said government had brothers to keep. In fact he had quite the opposite view.
You can really be proud of yourself!
Christ didn't believe in government, but he believed in being good to all, and he CERTAINLY didn't believe that war and instruments of war were a greater priority than caring for the sick and the elderly!
Your kind of "Christian" makes me sick! You use the Bible SOLELY for doing wrong, never for doing good!
Meals on Wheels is receiving donations (and currently, a LOT of donations, but certainly NOT from the Trump family billionaires!), but mostly, it is through the drivers who volunteer their time to drive the meals and visit with the isolated elderly that the "charity" part is given. But it also receive State funding, local funding AND federal funding. With Federal funding being cut, not only for this kind of community services, but ALSO for medicaid, States will be strapped for cash, and will probably also be forced to lower their commitment to such worthy programs.
"The majority of Meals on Wheels programs get most of their federal funding through the Administration for Community Living, an agency of the Department of Health and Human Services that serves the elderly and disabled. That agency has a $227 million line-item for "home-delivered nutrition services."
Those programs are authorized though the Older Americans Act, a law so popular that its renewal passed Congress last year without any recorded opposition. And while Trump didn't single out that specific program, Health and Human Services will receive a 16% across-the-board cut.
"We're very concerned. We’re concerned about the cuts that were explicit in the skinny budget, but we’re also concerned about what we see as the handwriting on the wall with the percentage cuts to HHS," Markwood said. "Some of these details we won't know for a while."
Meals on Wheels America, a national group that represents 5,000 programs throughout the country, said it was bombarded with questions about the budget and could not respond to press inquiries.
The impact is likely to vary from place to place. Every Meals on Wheels affiliate gets money from a different mix of state, local and federal government funds, along with individual donations and philanthropic organizations.
"We like to say that when you've seen one Meals on Wheels program, you've seen one Meals on Wheels program," said Sandra Noe, the executive director of Meals on Wheels of Northwest Indiana. Like many programs, it gets funding from an area agency on aging through the Older Americans Act.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development, which administers the community development block grant program that Trump targeted for elimination, couldn't say how much of that money ultimately flows to Meals on Wheels. It's certainly a small fraction: Social services are capped by law at 15% of the block grants, and the most recent HUD figures show all senior services receive about $33 million.
"We've spent $150 billion on those programs since the 1970s," Mulvaney said, referring to the block grants. And since the federal government started to apply more performance measurements to federal programs in the Bush administration those block grants have been "just not showing any results," he said.
"We can't do that anymore. We can't spend money on programs just because they sound good. And great, Meals on Wheels sounds great. Again, that's a state decision to fund that particular portion — to take the federal money and give it to the states, and say look, we want to give you money for programs that don't work."
But
scientific studies have found Meals on Wheels programs are effective in improving nutrition among the elderly. And they're cost effective, because keeping older adults in their homes is less expensive than nursing-home care.
"It's not just a meal, but a wellness check," Noe said. "That volunteer, that driver is able to tune into whether that person's health is failing, or if they’ve fallen or can't get out of their chair. And we’re delivering relief from isolation, and we’re delivering relief to their family as well."
Here's the truth about Meals on Wheels in Trump's budget usatoday ...
www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/03/18/meal-on-wheels.../99308928
And you know what is funny/sad? It is that it is precisely (once again) the "Bible belt" states, the RED states, those who voted for Trump the clown, who will suffer the most!
Karma is hell. . .and I wouldn't like to be in your shoes!
