$260M: Cancer, AIDS research --> border costs

[jimmyjazz 45893]

This is heart-warming.  The Trump administration is shifting $260M from medical research, Head Start, Medicare/Medicaid, etc. to cover the costs of housing immigrant children.  "Business as usual", says the HHS spokesperson, apparently oblivious to the scale of the current problem.

Yay, children! Let's just put as many children in "camps" as possible

[Hugo Stiglitz 23367]

But just think of all those private prison jobs that are being created. 

[RPM 26318]

7 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

medical research, Head Start, Medicare/Medicaid, etc.

More handouts to the lazy libtards. They should learn to be healthy and stop sponging off the government.

[pyrohornIII 4814]

I wonder what the original budget number is, because that is adding over 20K per child, using 12,800. 

And this will be small potatoes compared to what they are planning next year, concerning cutting entitlements to make up for the deficit caused by the tax bill and tariff fuck ups. 

Edited September 21, 2018 by pyrohornIII
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[jimmyjazz 45893]

I thought I heard $700 per kid, per day.  I remember being appalled, but maybe my memory is off.

Oh, who am I kidding.  This is the government.  It's probably $700 per kid, per day.