22 THE QUEENS COURIER • MARCH 23, 2017 FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT WWW.QNS.COM THE QUEENS editorial PUBLISHER & EDITOR CO-PUBLISHER ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER EDITOR-IN-CHIEF VP, EVENTS, WEB & SOCIAL MEDIA ART DIRECTOR ARTIST SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER STAFF REPORTERS CONTRIBUTING REPORTERS ASSISTANT TO PUBLISHER CLASSIFIED MANAGER CONTROLLER PRESIDENT & CEO VICE PRESIDENT VICTORIA SCHNEPS-YUNIS JOSHUA A. SCHNEPS BOB BRENNAN ROBERT POZARYCKI AMY AMATO-SANCHEZ NIRMAL SINGH RON TORINA EMILY DAVENPORT KATRINA MEDOFF, ANTHONY GIUDICE, ANGELA MATUA SUZANNE MONTEVERDI CLIFF KASDEN, SAMANTHA SOHMER, ELIZABETH ALONI DEBORAH CUSICK CELESTE ALAMIN MARIA VALENCIA VICTORIA SCHNEPS-YUNIS JOSHUA A. SCHNEPS Schneps Communications, 38-15 Bell Blvd., Bayside, NY 11361 718-224-5863 • Fax 718-224-5441 www.qns.com editorial e-mail: editorial@qns.com for advertising e-mail: ads@qns.com Entire Contents Copyright 2017 by The Queens Courier All letters sent to THE QUEENS COURIER should be brief and are subject to condensing. 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REACH: 26,848 (as of 3/20/17) An anti-social budget for Queens Th ere has never been a budget more anti-social and antithetical to the American way of life than the executive budget that President Trump proposed last week. While it boosts funds for military defense, it takes the meat ax to all kinds of programs that protect the people and improve their lives. If you don’t think it won’t aff ect you here in Queens, think again. Homebound seniors risk losing the Meals on Wheels program; senior centers would be at risk of closing due to proposed cuts in funding it receives from the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Your children’s aft er-school programs may be closed because the federal Department of Education is threatening to strip funding for them; it also wants to get rid of professional development for teachers. Th e proposed elimination of the National Endowment for the Arts puts cultural institutions and public television at great risk. Cuts in federal transportation funding threaten ongoing and planned projects aimed at making it easier to get around the city. Th e NYPD could lose hundreds of millions of dollars toward its counter-terrorism program, the best of its kind in the nation, even as the threat of terrorism remains as high as ever in this post-9/11 world. For crying out loud, it even cuts from the Environmental Protection Agency, which is working to clean up the Newtown Creek and Gowanus Canal, our city’s most polluted waterways. How exactly is reducing funding for an agency that strives to keep air and water clean fi scally or socially responsible? You might believe that the state and city offi cials who blasted these proposed cuts are simply overreacting or playing politics. You might also believe that local governments could scrape together enough resources to protect vital programs. Th e reality is, however, that the city and state cannot aff ord to close all the signifi cant funding gaps that the Trump budget, if enacted, would create. Programs will be slashed, services will be diminished, institutions will die, and millions of people will suff er the consequences from them. Rich or poor, young or old, liberal or conservative, this budget puts our quality of life in serious jeopardy. Th e Constitution specifi cally mandates that Congress has the power to “provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States.” Should it adopt this anti-social budget, Congress will have failed its basic Constitutional duty, and this borough, city, state and nation will face incredible catastrophe for years to come. Th is budget is unacceptable, and we’re counting on our Congressional representatives to refuse to compromise on the safety and well-being of the people of Queens.
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