WP: Trumps budget would hit rural towns especially hard but theyre willing to trust him

[TomCADem]

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump%E2%80%99s-budget-would-hit-rural-towns-especially-hard-%E2%80%94-but-they%E2%80%99re-willing-to-trust-him/ar-BBzeM6H

DURANT, Okla. — At the Boys and Girls Club in this rural city in southern Oklahoma, the director is unsure how he will stay open if President Trump’s proposed budget goes through, eliminating money for several staff positions.

Similar conversations are happening at the Oklahoma Shakespearean Festival’s after-school arts program, which relies on National Endowment for the Arts grants that Trump wants to eliminate. And at the county senior center, which already lost its state funding and could lose all or most of its federal funding, too. And at the Farm Service Center, which supports 1,200 local producers and is staffed with employees whose positions were targeted in the budget.

In this town of 16,000 — located near the Texas border in Oklahoma’s Bryan County, where Trump won 76 percent of the vote — excitement for Trump’s presidency has been dulled by confusion over an agenda that seems aimed at hurting their community more than helping it.

The president’s proposed budget would disproportionately harm the rural areas and small towns that were key to his unexpected win. Many red states like Oklahoma — where every single county went for Trump — are more reliant on the federal funds that Trump wants to cut than states that voted for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

[NurseJackie]

1. Stand by: Reality ahead.

They've got some tough lessons to learn. If they learn.

[sheshe2]

3. They won't learn a thing. nt

[Martin Eden]

6. Sadly, I have to agree. n/t

[gratuitous]

7. They'll just wonder why their balls hurt

Almost as if someone's been kicking them in the nads. Couldn't be that nice Mr. Trump, though.

[Jonny Appleseed]

2. Yeah b-b-but freedom!

Those socialist blue states ain't got that!

[babylonsister]

4. I watched a panel on cnn this weekend; he got A's from everyone

except one guy. It's like we're all living in an alternate reality.

[genxlib]

11. I saw that

I think the only non-A was an A- or B+.

They just want someone to act out their meanness so they can feel righteous in their anger.

Actual results are less important than having their viewpoint validated.

[zentrum]

5. Johnson--What a great

domestic President he was.

Ruinous foreign policy.

He's a tragic figure.

[Cha]

8. NO, they're not Brainwashed to the

deadth degree!

[JI7]

9. it really does all go back to what LBJ was saying

he knew. that was his home, his people. even bill Clinton knew which is why he ran the way he did .

[ananda]

10. After all he's a white patriarch.

One of them.