Mick Mulavney described eliminating federal funding for Meals on Wheels as "compassionate". The program feeds 2.5 million elderly people each year, and is very successful. It is not the sort of "entitlement" program that can be accused of "rewarding laziness" or "keeping people down". It just helps people who physically and financially cannot feed themselves well. 500,000 of the people fed by Meals on Wheels are veterans.

Meanwhile, the Trump family, with weekly trips to Mar-a-Lago, security for Melania in New York, and covering Donald Jr. and Eric's business trips is on pace to spend more than $300 million tax payer dollars this year. The tax payers paid $100,000 for hotels for the Trump sons for a single business trip.

Trump used to criticize Obama for his vacations. Obama's security cost just over $100 million for his entire 8 year term, or about twelve million per year. The Trump's are spending about twenty-four times as much as Obama.

Many of the successful programs that Trump wants to eliminate have a cost to the tax payers not much more than Trump is wasting on his and his families lifestyle. The Office for Violence Against Women and PBS could both get their 2/3 of their funding from Trump's excessive travel budget.

Conservatives keep claiming they are "compassionate" by cutting programs that help the poor, the sick, the disabled, children, and the elderly. They say any programs that help people are "making people weak" or "keeping people down". That argument can be made for programs like welfare, and that may or may not have much validity, but extending the argument to programs like healthcare or taking care of the elderly is an outright lie. No one is getting is being "kept down" by Meals on Wheels; people who could not get healthy meals otherwise are being "kept fed".

I have a suggestion. If spending money on people "makes them weak and soft", let's start with the Trump's. If Melania wants to stay in New York -- which I understand; what woman in her right mind wouldn't want to be as far away from Donald as possible? -- then let the Trump's pay for it. Let the Trump boys pay for their own hotel rooms and those of their security details when they go on business trips. Heck, why pay for a security detail at all. It makes them weak! Let the spoiled rich brats man up and learn to take care of themselves abroad. It's "compassionate".