Can you afford to do without these programs?
Head Start (the program right over here that our beloved Douglass teacher Cora Cox started, right after Douglass closed).
Rental Assistance to low-income families.
SNAP benefits.. the food assistance program that helps poor people keep food on the table. IT WILL BE GONE.
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (it protects you from businesses trying to defraud you).
Flouride in drinking water (every single person in this room can thank the flouride in the water we drink for preventing cavities when we were growing up. Bobby Kennedy wants to eliminate flouride in the water. Without flouride in the water, we'd all be toothless.
Can you afford to suffer cuts to these programs?
SNAP benefits.
Medicare.
Medicaid.
Affordable Care Act (Obamacare).
Veterans benefits.
FEMA.
There are plenty others. If you can afford to do without these programs, congratulations. You are living in heaven.
If you would miss these programs and benefits from the federal government, it's today's Earth outside of Heaven. You might want to find out how to keep these programs.
You can hopefully get some of the answers you need to have, by attending the panel discussion this coming Saturday, on how to deal with the Trump changes that may affect your life and your family's.
The panel discussion of experts will be this Saturday, April 26, 2025 from 12 Noon to 2 PM in the Douglass Room at the V.O. Dobbins Community Center Complex, 301 Louis Street, Kingsport.
We will also be showing for the first and perhaps only time, a 10-minute excerpt from the Black Lives Matter March on Rogersville, Tennessee a few short years ago (parental discretion advised, due to profane and/or offensive language).
If you cannot attend, please mail your questions to douglassriverview@gmail.com
