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kerry-is-my-prez

(8,133 posts)
Fri May 26, 2017, 11:51 PM May 2017

Another group starting to be pissed off by Trump: people and families with substance abuse.

Another story of where some GOP politician looked people in the eye and lied:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-budget-dismays-families-hit-opioid-addiction-crisis-051550022

packed with Iowa voters, the presidential candidate looked the middle-aged truck driver visiting from upstate New York in the eye and vowed to fight the opioid crisis that killed his only son two years earlier.

"He promised me, in honor of my son, that he was going to combat the ongoing heroin epidemic," Moss said of the January 2016 interaction. "He got me hook, line and sinker."

Moss, an amateur musician, quickly sold enough possessions to fund a months-long tour of more than 40 Trump rallies, where he serenaded voters with pro-Trump songs. His guitar, and the ashes of his late 24-year-old son, Rob, were always close by.

"I had everything riding on the fact that he was going to make things better," Moss said. "He lied to me."

Trump's budget proposal, released this week, would reduce funding for addiction treatment, research and prevention. The most damaging proposed cut, critics say, is the president's 10-year plan to shrink spending for Medicaid, which provides coverage to an estimated three in 10 adults with opioid addiction. Members of Congress have said they are unlikely to approve the budget as written.

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Another group starting to be pissed off by Trump: people and families with substance abuse. (Original Post) kerry-is-my-prez May 2017 OP
Heartless, stupid bastard! smirkymonkey May 2017 #1
 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
1. Heartless, stupid bastard!
Sat May 27, 2017, 04:07 AM
May 2017

This is a growing problem in this country and they couldn't care less. They probably see this as a way to thin out the herd. I so hate these mofos. They have no compassion for anyone - it's disgusting!

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