Wednesday, May 24, 2017

The truth about Trump’s ‘savage’ cuts

The New York Post reports:
Relax: President Trump’s new budget won’t leave people starving or bleeding in the streets.

Yes, it brought media hysteria: The plan would “drive millions” off food stamps, screamed an Associated Press story. It “cuts deeply into Medicaid and anti-poverty efforts,” cried The New York Times.

In fact, the budget’s $4.1 trillion in outlays amount to 21.3 percent of the economy — more than in any of the last four Obama years and in line with much of the past few decades.

And the cuts would just bring some anti-poverty programs closer to pre-2009 levels.
There's more:
The program has veered out of control. In 1969, just 2.9 million people, 1.5 percent of Americans, got food stamps. By 2008, it was 9 percent; last year, 14 percent. (Even Amazon accepts them now.)
An editorial well worth your time.