Trump won big in these places. Now he wants to eliminate 3 agencies dedicated to helping people.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

President Trump won big in these places. Now he wants to eliminate 3 agencies dedicated to helping them.

By Jeff Guo March 17
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In rural Appalachia, people are so poor that there is a federal program dedicated to lifting them out of poverty. Through the Appalachian Regional Commission, the government pitches in on projects that these rural communities badly need but can’t quite afford — everything from fixing roads, to building computer labs, to training workers, to opening health clinics.

These efforts have become so widely admired that in recent years Congress launched, with bipartisan backing, sister agencies to help other rural regions stuck in generational cycles of poverty. Together the programs spend about $175 million each year bringing jobs and opportunities to places that long have felt left behind. ... President Trump, who won rousing victories in these same parts of rural America, would eliminate that funding.

In his budget outline for 2018 unveiled Thursday, none of the rural development agencies — the Appalachian Regional Commission, the Delta Regional Authority, the Northern Border Regional Commission — would receive any money. In effect, it would eliminate these programs, which are completely subsidized by the federal government.

In the context of Trump’s other budget goals, the money at stake is paltry. What the rural development agencies spend in a year is a third of 1 percent of Trump’s proposed $54 billion bump in the military budget. The cost of Trump's increase in military spending could fund them for more than 300 years.

Not "military spending could fund them for more than 300 years," but "the increase in military spending could fund them for more than 300 years."

Meaning that, if the proposed increase in military spending were trimmed by 0.3%, to a level that was 99.7% of what is being proposed, and that money were channeled to the agencies, they could be funded for a year.

[ProudLib72]

1. Somehow

The resulting catastrophe will be Obama's fault.

[NewJeffCT]

2. of course

they'll blame Obama and/or Clinton.

Since they get their news from Fox, talk radio and their local church,they will not hear differently and the lack of dissent will confirm the view that it was Obama's fault.

[Solly Mack]

3. He needs to be stopped. And not just him.

[dalton99a]

4. The vast majority of his soon-to-be victims still support him or give him the benefit of the doubt

[lame54]

5. The cost is huge...

At least it will be for Trump

[Charles Bukowski]

6. They'll blame their misfortune on PoC.

As always.

[redstatebluegirl]

7. I am sorry, in those areas this is a racist thing. They hated having a Black man in the White House

TRump used all of the words a good racist wants to hear.

[Doreen]

8. So, you motherfuckers, how do you like being raciest now?

Being racist just lost you your health benefits, Soc-Sec, job safety, food cards, child care, good schools for either you or your children, protection from corporations, a fucked up environment so you and your family of future can no longer enjoy it, unclean water, bad air, food that is no longer protected from being safely taken care of in all stages, and a lot more losses. How is that working for you you worthless pieces of shit?