Proposed Meals on Wheels cuts drive fear among Alabama seniors

[jpak]

Source: al.com

For the 42,000 seniors that benefit from the Meals on Wheels program across Alabama every year, the expectant knock at the door is often the only visitor they'll receive all day. Most live alone, and the meal that's delivered by a volunteer between 10 and noon is usually the only food they'll eat.

For some seniors, those meals could be about to stop coming.

On Friday, one day after President Donald Trump dropped a budget that contained a 17.9 percent cut to the Department of Health and Human Services, some seniors in Central Alabama asked if that day's meal would be their last, according to a United Way employee that rode with a volunteer delivery driver in Jefferson County.

"They're scared," said Samuetta Nesbitt, Senior Vice President Public Relations and Community Affairs at United Way in Central Alabama. "We have the luxury of waiting to see what's going to happen, the seniors don't. They're home watching TV being concerned about where the next meal will come from."

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[Else You Are Mad]

1. The sad thing is...

That all of those in Alabama personally hurt by the cuts will still vote down ticket Republicans.

[Lanius]

5. Yes, they have, they did and they will in the future. I don't know what can be done to convince

these people that voting Republican means voting against your own interests. Of course they think they're voting for their interests because the Republicans are pro-gun, anti-LGBTQ, pro-war, pro-Christian and anti-liberal, but they don't realize that the Republicans are also anti-labor, pro-big business, pro-tax cuts for the rich and other things that hurt the poor, rural, low-skilled people.

[calimary]

2. Matthew 25: 35-45 Wonder what Jesus would say about the powerful deliberately causing fear in

the least of His brethren. All for the sake of saving a buck.

Kicking impoverished old people right in the stomach (and the pocketbook) at their most vulnerable.

These jackals must be SO proud...

[dalton99a]

3. How else can he make America great again without starving American seniors?

[Heartstrings]

4. Buyers remorse much? nt

[yellowcanine]

6. Great quote at the link.

[b"]Trump still talks like Robin Hood but his actual policies mostly benefit the modern day Sheriffs of Nottingham - the billionaires and millionaires."

[Sunlei]

7. breaks my heart Republicans would allow our most vulnerable elders to suffer this fear.

[Tatiana]

8. Does it now? Are they more afraid of losing their sustenance than they were of President Clinton?

I'm sorry -- I have a hard time feeling sorry for these people knowing the majority of them voted for Trump and will still vote Republican even if the Republicans starve them to death and snatch their health care.

[msongs]

9. obvious solution- only cut service to registered republicans. voila, more for registered dems nt

[maxrandb]

10. Sorry, but Fuck 'em

Bet 90 -95% of them voted for Trump. Guess they fucking thought that only the "dark" people would lose their fucking meals.

That's their hole fucking hillbilly mindset. Same with the dumbasses in KY, WV, TN, MS, etc.

See, when they get a "gubmint" hand-out, it's because they're "hard-working 'Murikans" that deserve it. Their black and Hispanic neighbors across the river...when they get a "gubmint" hand-out, it's because they're lazy scofflaws sucking on the teet of 'Murika!

Fuck every last one of them!

[keithbvadu2]

11. This is what they wanted and voted for.

[jrthin]

13. Checked under my bed,

The closets, checked everywhere, nada, cannot find compassion. They voted their ignorance and bigotry. Votes have consequences.

[FakeNoose]

18. They were being used, and we all know it

They were too uneducated or discerning to see through the lies of the Republican Party.

[DK504]

14. These are the zealots of Putin's puppets, now they are shocked!

Shocked I tell you! Once Comrade tRump has wrecked havoc will they still be so happy to elect more Repukes??

[OnDoutside]

15. Democratic Superpacs should have wall to wall ads in Alabama telling people what the Republicans

are planning to do.

[Yavin4]

16. For one weekend, every elected Dem in the country should volunteer for Meals on Wheels

It would send a great message.

[dembotoz]

17. torn on this...do not want seniors to suffer but then again, they have to learn to vote for their

own best interests.....

if we rescue them, what will they learn?