Your tax dollars hard at work

not sure if we're all seeing this correctly. when she went thru her budget, she cut the amount suggested for covenant house. when a politician cuts funding for something, they are, basically, saying it isn't as important as other areas of the budget.
the fact that she now has a pregnant daughter who very well might be living in the white house, paid for with tax dollars, and she might be receiving medical care paid for with tax dollars, is, in my eyes, ironic.

fair enough but comparing someone asking their employer for a raise is a bit different from a non-profit budget item. For starters, cutting funding is, simply put, the term used to describe a decrease in funding. I have several non-profit clients who will tell you that, when they get less than the year before, they are told "we're cutting funding (insert lame reason here)"

Also, the amount crossed out (5 million) is the proposed budgeted amount. It isn't what Covenant House asked for, it's what the lawmakers who drew up the budget propsed. She said no to that number. she still gave a nice amount but she reduced (word used for humorous effect) the proposed amount. Truth is, the lawmakers who drew up the budget might have put the 5 million in there knowing she'd cut the amount by an expected percent. Nonetheless, the point is, it isn't like she cut the funding for homeless people and then her daughter was homeless. She cut funding for unwed teen pregnancies and her unwed teen got pregnant. I know this sounds cold but, dammit, that's good comedy. extra DIV