did republican budget priorities create a snowball effect in homelessness?

Question

November 13, 2001

FY 2002 VA-HUD APPROPRIATIONS BILL REDUCES RESOURCES FOR PUBLIC HOUSING AND HAMPERS EFFORTS TO IMPROVE HOUSING QUALITY

Eight and a half months after President Bush released his Federal budget blueprint, which proposed cutting the Public Housing Capital Fund by $800 million and eliminating the $310 million Public Housing Drug Elimination Grant program, Congress finally passed a HUD budget that will result in a funding reduction for all public housing of approximately 3% from last years' amounts. On November 6, the VA-HUD Conference Committee agreed to the Conference Report on the FY 2002 VA-HUD Appropriations. The House overwhelmingly passed the bill, 401-18, on Thursday, November 8, 2001. That same day, the Senate passed the measure, 87-7.

While the bill is an improvement over the original ...., it still leaves agencies and their residents woefully shortchanged. The Conference Committee rejected the President's proposed dramatic cuts .
or was it an avalanche?

and at what cost to the poor and to repair?

Answer 1

You must remember that the Democrat stance of amnesty for illegals causes many people who have nothing to enter the contry illegally and take assistance that the ACLU and other libersals say that you and I must provide for them. 67% of illegals are living in HUD homes.

Answer 2

The devils in the details of the cuts, and this was a easy target people don't lobby much about and the population is vunable and easy program to cut since the lobby not strong like big tobacco, agriculture or military. Taxpayers dollars be saved more cutting farm subsides to land owners on 20 acre lots getting check even thou they do not farm period. Cutting VA funding is fine if the cuts are meant do away with pork and waste. But cutting any money good now days that bush spent like a drunken sailor. I be at least the half budget is never used on depressed VA people its end up in some politicians pocket

Answer 3

YES. It is all republicans fault people are homeless.

Under no circumstances do we hold somebody accountable for their own actions.
Under no circumstances do we condemn somebody for producing children they cannot afford to take care of.
Under no circumstances do we hold people responsible for not taking their education seriously.

You must remember, in America, it is always somebody else's fault. Everybody is a victim.
Never look in a mirror. Always look externally as a source of your problems.
Never ask for help. Always demand the government confiscate your fellow citizens' money and give it to you.
Never, never use the word taxpayer. Always pretend the money grows on trees.

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“I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”
-Thomas Jefferson

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Answer 4

there is little or no excuse to be homeless in the USA.