Killing Off Housing for the Poor

he Bush administration's tax cuts for the well-to-do have taken a heavy toll on the nation's most important social programs for the poor and working class. Prominent casualties include child care assistance for working mothers and federal aid for needy college students. The latest victim appears to be Section 8, the government's main housing program for the poor. The program provides rent subsidies for two million of the country's most vulnerable families and encourages private developers to build affordable housing.

Section 8 subsidies go primarily to families that live at or below the poverty level, in households that include children, disabled people or the elderly. These families pay 30 percent of their incomes toward rent and the Section 8 vouchers pay the rest. Some cities give priority to battered women, many of them with children, who have to find a new place to live to escape danger. The need is so great that families often wait years for vouchers, which become available when voucher holders die or become ineligible after getting better jobs.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/10/opinion/10MON1.html

These section 8 housing only encourages people to not go and find better jobs so they can live off the backs of the taxpayers.

Assholes!!! That shit pisses me off because those that scream the loudest were probably the first in line to pick up every government benefit they could get their hands on when they were on the unemployment line and had maxed out their credit cards to while trying to save their mortgage.

Get ready. They'll be first in line again now that inflation is hitting and the interest rate is certain to rise.

This is part of the plan to eliminate all social programs.

Every social program implemented since the progressive era, especially new deal and great society efforts to eliminate poverty and ease suffering.
If we don't roll these bastards back under the rock they slithered out from it's everyone for themself, and devil take the hindmost.

housing.It's your fault you can't find a middle-class job. The children should definitely suffer for your mistakes.

Take your disabled sister with you. You must have done something against God to cause this disability.

Your mother obviously is a drug addict/lazy her whole life not to have accumulated hundreds of thousands of $$ for her retirement.She can sleep under the car.

So, please, use your energy to write, call and generally raise hell about this.

Just writing about it here won't affect it.

Please, please, take a little time to write your congresscritters, and call.

Thank you.

Kanary

You will not need that in your tent. Bush does seem to have knocked down the Middle class and I see a lot more bad things coming up. Walmart will never make it with out us and I think they only made like 400 Billion last year.

DU has definitely fallen to the depths with this shit.

I'LL BE DEAD, YOU IGNORAMUS.

I'M SURE YOU'LL BE MUCH HAPPIER THEN.

programs they would get angry. Most of the programs they have come up solve real problems for people. But there are entire industries that are born from people's misery and they are the ones who really benefit. Everything from social security to welfare has been costly because of the simple fact contractors and other businesses benefit more from them then the people they are suppose to help. They are also designed so that people unless they have extreme forms of luck they can never get out from under them.

it's not coming off that way. It sounds like judgement call on Kanary's choices for which neither you nor I know nothing. In fact, having a PC is a better choice if you think about it. From and perspective of using taxpayer resources (ie doesn't need to go to the library). And it's certainly more efficient with the benefit of providing greater opportunities to seek out (ie job hunting/applying to better oneself; operating functions for an at-home business; greater access to resources within the individual's time commitments to name a few).

Whether Kanary owns a PC or uses someone else's is really none of our business or concern. So, if you were being serious in your question, an apology is owed.