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To: M. Murray who wrote (402442)	3/11/2019 10:51:11 PM
From: Alex MG	1 Recommendation Recommended By pocotrader Respond to of 542596

And yet... republicons have been running on trickle down economics since Raygun, and their cult voters who get fucked in the ass by supporting these creatures still blindly vote "R" because one day their ship will come in and they will pay a little less on their lotto ticket... and besides, it's worth it to "own the libs"... another example of "voting out of spite", not what makes practical sense

To: M. Murray who wrote (402442)	3/11/2019 11:04:54 PM
From: Sam	Respond to of 542596

Good grief, why spend good money on addicts? They're just lazy weaklings, shiftless and worthless. Trump’s budget proposal does nothing for the opioid epidemic Experts say the US needs to spend a lot more money to fight the opioid crisis. Trump isn’t listening. By German Lopez @germanrlopez german.lopez@vox.com Mar 11, 2019, 3:00pm EDT President Donald Trump’s budget proposal shows that his administration isn’t interested in spending much more to combat the opioid epidemic, even as drug overdoses were linked to more than 70,000 deaths — a record high — in 2017. The budget plan does propose some new funding to fight the opioid crisis, including $245 million over 10 years to let states “extend Medicaid coverage for pregnant women with substance use disorder to one year postpartum.” But it also proposes cuts to some opioid-related programs, particularly at the Department of Justice. At best, the budget maybe adds some tens of millions a year to address the problem. Tens of millions of dollars may sound like a lot of money, but it’s almost nothing in a budget valued at $4.7 trillion for 2020. It’s also far short of the tens of billions of additional dollars that experts say is needed to address the opioid crisis. For reference, the White House’s own Council of Economic Advisers in 2017 linked the opioid epidemic to $500 billion in economic losses — so spending tens of billions would be only a fraction of what the White House says the crisis is costing the US. But Trump himself seemed to acknowledge that this wasn’t enough money. Last year, his budget plan called for an additional $7 billion for 2019. This year’s budget proposal drops that request — with no explanation as to why that money is no longer necessary. Beyond the lack of money for the opioid epidemic, Trump also proposes steep cuts to domestic programs that could make the current crisis worse. Most notably, he calls for slashing hundreds of billions of dollars from Medicare and Medicaid — both of which, as health insurance programs, can help connect people to addiction treatment. Medicaid in particular pays for a quarter of drug addiction treatment in the US. continues at vox.com