Virginia — and our local area — is sure to be affected badly by all the layoffs and budget cuts. Every day seems to bring new chaos.
My biggest personal concern involves threats to cut Medicaid and Social Security. My adult son, who is disabled, lives in a group home — his placement is funded through Medicaid and his Social Security Disability. Based on what is happening daily in D.C., we have no idea what the future will bring.
This is no way to run a government.
Democrats voted down getting rid of car tax… Vote Republicans in… Write to your Democrat reps!
Update on Community Works 4Page
What will the sheriff do with illegal immigrants?
Citizens United must be repealed? NO. It’s the FEC that needs fixing.
Sally, who told you there are going to be cuts to those benefits? Stop believing the media whose only goal is to get you to watch more. Eliminating waste is not the same as removing benefits. Also, you people concerned with all of these spending cuts should have been more concerned when the spending was out of control but us didn’t. Ya kept voting for it over and over and now that someone is making the government accountable, you’re complaining. It’s honestly an insane position to take.
You’re right. Nothing is changing. It’s all a Trump magic show.
We’ll close the Department of Education. Fire 1,300. Yea!
But we’ll transfer all the functions of Education somewhere else:
Student loans to Treasury.
Civil right enforcement to Justice.
Disability education to Health and Human Services
Vocational Eduction to Labor
Each and every one of which will hire more clerks, supervisors, budget analysts, supervisors, program managers and assistant secretaries to handle the work. About 1,300 of them I expect.
Because there’s real work to be done if you want your benefits.
Meanwhile, enjoy the magic show. It’s the best your money can buy.
George, it’s obvious that you’re trained well by the democrats. I never said things aren’t changing. But since you brought up the Dept of Education, please provide some evidence to support an organization which since its inception, has done the opposite of its objective. For the last 40 years, the level of education in this country has declined steadily. Please provide some data that suggests your support for the dept of education is valid. And yeah, loans should be the business of the treasury. Why on earth would you make the argument that the dept of education should be handling loans? Does the dept of transportation handle my car loan?
That’s what makes the Musk/Trump magic show so predictable. They’re creating the illusion of abolishing the dept of Education while hiding all of the pieces in other departments.
You know why? Because every red hat wearing soul that hates the federal government still wants their benefits. Blue hat people even more. Free school lunches for the kiddies and subsidized student loans for all. Special federal funding for low income communities’ schools (looking at you, Page County) and federal money for cops in our schools.
Find one person in Page County who wants to pay higher taxes to replace the $5.7 million of federal money in the Page County school budget. Then figure out how much of the State money for Page schools is really laundered federal money and pay to replace that too.
Do the same calculations for our community college.
Think on how much interest you’ll pay on the open market for a college loan to an 18 year old kid with no collateral or credit history. (Answer 0%. No sane banker would write the loan.)
Trump knows better than to bring painful reality to the conversation.
He’s too good a magician for that.
Sally Edwards and Damnson. With the closure of millions of fake Social Security accounts I’m sure these entitlements will become much stronger. Were you two or somebody you know ripping off the government with fake SSNs?