CBPP reminds us that despite the media’s focus on the military cuts portion, there are a lot of other pointless cuts in the Republicans’ sequester. There is no reason to make any cuts like this. Congress needs to get rid of the sequester and replace it with nothing:
Our own analysis confirms that the cuts would have serious consequences on critical housing supports in every state.
- Nationwide, more than 100,000 families could lose the Housing Choice Voucher assistance they need to rent decent housing at an affordable cost, placing many at risk of homelessness. About half of these households are elderly or have disabilities, and most of the rest include children, according to program data.
- Local communities would lose nearly $100 million in homeless assistance grants. As a result, HUD estimates that 100,000 fewer people who have lost their homes will receive temporary or permanent housing assistance through its homeless assistance grants program, lengthening the time they will remain homeless.
- Public housing, which provides affordable housing for 1.1 million households, most of which include seniors and people with disabilities with extremely low incomes, would lose $300 million. This would force agencies to delay maintenance and repairs, causing living conditions in public housing to deteriorate and accelerating the loss of developments. A lack of resources needed to maintain public housing already leads to a loss of about 10,000 units every year.
Damn shame Obama came up with this disastrous idea. He should be held accountable.
Hah!
This all stems from the Republicans’ decision to take the debt ceiling hostage. It’s completely their fault.
Said like a good little hack.
Nothing hackish about telling the truth. The Republicans held the debt ceiling hostage to policy concessions for the first time ever (“Boehner Rule”), they set up the Supercommittee as the price of ending the fake hostage crisis, and the Supercommittee failed because Republicans negotiated in bad faith (example: Pat Toomey’s huge tax cut pretending to be a deficit reduction plan). If the Supercommittee failed, it would set off the sequester time bomb. If the Republicans hadn’t created the debt ceiling crisis, none of this would be happening.
I became dizzy and had to lie down after trying to follow that logic.
my favorite headline:
“Obama: We must avoid these dangerous spending cuts that I signed into law”
Consuming bad information all day would tend to make it hard to understand recent history
Huh?
The accurate retelling of recent federal budget history is making you dizzy because you’ve been consuming fake partisan information about it.
The biggest joke here is the “CUTS”. There are no cuts, just stoppages to increases in government programs.
“If a lie is repeated enough it will eventually be accepted as truth. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.´ Joseph Goebbels