ONE QUARTER OF ONE MILLION

If President Bush has his way, 250,000 Housing Vouchers will be taken in 2005. By 2009, another 600,000 families will lose their homes. In Colorado alone, 3,337 families would lose their vouchers in 2005 and another 8,010 by 2009. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the Section 8 Housing Voucher cost under the current program would be nearly the same through 2009. Despite this fact the Bush Administration is suggesting 850,000 people be cut from the program by 2009.

That's a lot of people on the streets, folks. That's a lot of women and little kids forced to stay in abusive situations because they have nowhere else to go.

For me, it means a return to the banks of the San Miguel River which is okay in the summer, but no damn fun at all when the snow flies. I get just a little over $600 a month from disability. There's no way I can cover rent and utilities on that without a housing voucher. Right now I'm scared to death. I don't have the stamina to handle being homeless again, and there's a quarter of a million Americans just like me out there. PLEASE write your congressman and ask them to vote against this cut.

And, Radar, I don't want to read one single word from you on this subject, so don't even think of replying.