SDC President’s Message

GREETINGS!
If you were asked how frequently you review the Solivita Democratic Club web page, how would you answer? Therefore, I plan to send the President’s Message both via the web page and as a follow up e-mail. The following message  also appears in our Beacon Newsletter.

Trump’s budget actually threatens his voters the hardest!

     Trump’s budget cuts taxes on the wealthy, boosts defense spending, and slashes programs for the poor and disabled – potentially hurting many of the rural and low-income Americans who voted him into office. The plan calls for more than $1 trillion in cuts to social programs with millions of beneficiaries, from farm subsidies to federal student aid. It includes a $600 billion cut to Medicaid over 10 years, slashes the federal food stamp program, and Social Security Disability Insurance. He proposes some of the deepest cuts to agriculture subsidies since Ronald Reagan- nearly $50 billion over 10 years. At the end of the decade, the U.S. would spend nearly twice as much on defense as on other domestic programs. Domestic discretionary spending would be capped below 2004 levels, while military spending soars to $722 billion. It would cripple programs for low-income families ranging from cash assistance to the child tax credit. Nearly $200 billion in cuts will come directly from the federal food stamp program, which helps feed 44 million people each year.
     Lastly, Trump would also slash $72 billion by tightening the rules for programs for people with disabilities, eliminate funding for NPR, PBS, render the Consumer Financial Protection Agency toothless, disable or repeal Dodd-Frank (Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act), and make health insurance unaffordable for 22 million Americans. Does this sound like his policies are “putting America first”? This information is both sobering and alarming, and we cannot as Democrats allow a repeat of the 2016 election in the next 2018 cycle. It is a given that Trump should not have won, but surgical gerrymandering by the Republicans is a prime reason for his win in the electoral college, despite the fact that Hillary Clinton received 2.86 million more votes.
     In order to help us to develop a strategy to encourage more of us to go the polls, would you please either click on the following link, or copy and paste it into your internet web browser to take a survey ?
Best Regards to Everyone
Stanley P. Dillard, Sr. President
Solivita Democratic Club
863-427- 4480