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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Sun Mar 19, 2017, 05:08 PM Mar 2017

Budget chief who wants to cut Meals on Wheels says he is sacrificing by giving up business cards

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“If you think about the coal miner and the single mom, doesn’t saving begin at home?” Dickerson asked. “I mean, there are things the president can do to cut back on his own using that text… The coal miner doesn’t get to fly down to Mar-a-Lago either.”

Mulvaney agreed that he knew the bill would hurt children and prevent them from having access to nutritional food from organizations like Meals on Wheels, but he wants people to know he’s suffering too.

“Yes,” he began. “I don’t have a business card to give to you today, John, because, at the Office of Management and Budget, we have to pay for our own business cards. So it does start at home but it’s already started.”

Watch below at the 5:15-minute mark:



http://www.rawstory.com/2017/03/trump-budget-chief-who-wants-to-cut-meals-on-wheels-says-he-is-sacrificing-by-giving-up-business-cards/

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Budget chief who wants to cut Meals on Wheels says he is sacrificing by giving up business cards (Original Post) DonViejo Mar 2017 OP
republiCONs are so friggin' rediculus when they're trying to screw you. democratisphere Mar 2017 #1
Cheap SOB can't spring for a few business cards? He was confirmed a month ago. Tanuki Mar 2017 #2
What a disgusting jerk. gademocrat7 Mar 2017 #3
Shades of Trump's "I've made a lot of sacrifices. I work very, very hard" dalton99a Mar 2017 #4
Cheap POS. nt WhiteTara Mar 2017 #5
Short term Scarsdale Mar 2017 #6
Who uses business cards anymore? IronLionZion Mar 2017 #7
Didn't he cancel his cell phone? Marthe48 Mar 2017 #10
He canceled it to pay for his health insurance IronLionZion Mar 2017 #12
This message was self-deleted by its author LakeArenal Mar 2017 #15
250 Business cards at VistaPrint for $18 Dolt45 Mar 2017 #8
I don't think this is really the point. WinkyDink Mar 2017 #17
Make a set up with his name and "POS" as his position LastLiberal in PalmSprings Mar 2017 #21
Now there's a walking talking ad for birth control - what an ASSHOLE NoMoreRepugs Mar 2017 #9
fuck him what a total piece of shit gopiscrap Mar 2017 #11
We're near the end of Trump's presidency so why waste money on business cards IronLionZion Mar 2017 #13
Why don't we make this easy for him? Fritz Walter Mar 2017 #14
OMG. The banality of evil right in front of us, brazen as Hell. WinkyDink Mar 2017 #16
Have the heartless wonder toss his cards with Russian Dressing dae Mar 2017 #18
This ass says their part of the meels on wheels program is only 3% mdbl Mar 2017 #19
Government has NOT been paying for business cards for more than 20 years. PuppyBismark Mar 2017 #20

democratisphere

(17,235 posts)
1. republiCONs are so friggin' rediculus when they're trying to screw you.
Sun Mar 19, 2017, 05:13 PM
Mar 2017

Wonder if Mulvaney likes his business cards with or without ketchup?

Tanuki

(14,918 posts)
2. Cheap SOB can't spring for a few business cards? He was confirmed a month ago.
Sun Mar 19, 2017, 05:22 PM
Mar 2017

Obviously he's not interested in having anyone contact him.

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
6. Short term
Mon Mar 20, 2017, 10:26 AM
Mar 2017

Maybe he thinks his boss will be indicted, or resign so he is putting off wasting $$$ on business cards??

IronLionZion

(45,442 posts)
7. Who uses business cards anymore?
Mon Mar 20, 2017, 11:21 AM
Mar 2017

I can just text a whole contact entry with emails, phones, company name, website, linked in, etc. in just seconds.

Business cards don't cost very much so he is just a cheap asshole who doesn't want anyone to contact him and give him hell.

But Trumpers think Hillary and the Dems are the real out of touch elitists who don't care about real people.

Response to IronLionZion (Reply #7)

IronLionZion

(45,442 posts)
13. We're near the end of Trump's presidency so why waste money on business cards
Mon Mar 20, 2017, 03:22 PM
Mar 2017

I hope they all get carted off to prison soon and Trump is put in a mental institution.

Fritz Walter

(4,291 posts)
14. Why don't we make this easy for him?
Mon Mar 20, 2017, 04:47 PM
Mar 2017

Business cards are so 20th Century. What we need is his vCard.

Someone (an alt-OMB staffer, perhaps) should make public his contact information: his email address, his office phone number, his mobile number, his social media connections.

We can take it from there... giving it the widest possible dissemination.

dae

(3,396 posts)
18. Have the heartless wonder toss his cards with Russian Dressing
Mon Mar 20, 2017, 10:12 PM
Mar 2017

and eat them while someone whispers they are better than seniors will recieve without Meals on Wheels.

mdbl

(4,973 posts)
19. This ass says their part of the meels on wheels program is only 3%
Tue Mar 21, 2017, 06:33 AM
Mar 2017

Even if that were true, can you tell me which 3 out of every hundred you would like to deny a meal? Programs like this rely on the consistency of government grants as a base then fan out to find private donor help. Without a consistent base, it's hard to survive. But go ahead you fascist, give a bunch of very wealthy people a big tax break, soak more lost unaccounted for money into the military budget and deny food to needy people. Just admit that's what you are doing so we can get on with it.

PuppyBismark

(594 posts)
20. Government has NOT been paying for business cards for more than 20 years.
Tue Mar 21, 2017, 10:50 AM
Mar 2017

I worked in the white house for a year more than 20 years ago and we had to buy our own business cards then. This is utter nonsense and more crap from the TRump folks.

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