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09-28-2004, 05:39 PM | #1 |
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HUD cuts come home(less) to roost
A while back I posted about the cuts HUD was proposing in its housing voucher program. Well sure enough, the cuts went through unopposed by anyone that I am aware of. Prior to the cuts the waiting list for a housing voucher was a year and a half in Colorado. I could have just squeaked by and gotten my voucher before I lost my little cottage I now rent. I just now found out that with the cuts the wait has gone up to three years. I've been on the list for 9 months now. I paid my rent up till next Feburary with my SSDI back pay. I get $625/mo from SSDI. That's my entire income. I'm doing my best to get back on my feet, but news like this just flips me out and sets me back emotionally. I need time to get on with treatment and voc rehab, and time is exactly what I don't have. It feels like what's the point in trying?
I just had to vent about this as I try to come to terms with this information and figure out what to do next. Thanks for letting me whine a bit. I'll shut up now. |
09-28-2004, 05:46 PM | #2 |
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It doesn't sound like your a quitter Mari, so I'm thinking this little setback is just that--a little setback
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09-28-2004, 06:07 PM | #3 |
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Start writing letters (I know you have before) to everybody. You won't get the policy changed, but you might irritate them enough to move you up on the list, just to shut you up. Is it fair? No, but it's reality and reality is what we have to deal with every day. Good luck, you whining liberal, you.
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09-28-2004, 07:23 PM | #4 |
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Thanks, guys! Chin up and all that. I least I already know about this great camping spot on the San Miguel River...
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09-28-2004, 07:34 PM | #5 |
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You don't give up until you stop trying, and of course if you stop trying, nothing's going to happen for you. Good luck!
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09-28-2004, 07:48 PM | #6 |
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Mari, if you've got a spot picked out already, holler at me before you take off. I've been thinking of giving the simpler life a try, and I'd rather have a go at it with someone who knows what she's doing.
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10-09-2004, 08:58 AM | #8 |
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Excellent! How is the room service, though?
Seriously, Mari, if there's anything I can do, let me know. And keep us posted. |
10-09-2004, 10:04 AM | #9 | |
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Thanks, jane. It's looking awfully grim. My local housing authority just told me last week that all housing vouchers are currently frozen. If Bush is re-elected, people who already have housing vouchers will start loosing them, because the Bush administration is proposing even deeper cuts in social services. I remeber seeing some statistic that the war in Iraq has cost over $100 billion. Meanwhile here in the US, we can't even spend 2 hundred million to keep our own people housed. Write your congressman and protest the housing voucher cuts! |
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10-09-2004, 12:53 PM | #10 |
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Actually the number for Iraq is over $200 million. Even so, I am more likely to write my congressman a letter and tell him thanks for finally doing something about all of the entitlement programs. That isn't aimed at you Marichiko, but at all of the fluff in the system.
Just because $200,000,000 is spent in a war effort doesn't mean we have to keep entitlement programs. Some programs are obviously needed, but these should be limited, short term programs, not long term permanent fixes. |
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When I checked in on that site right now the cost stood at $139,221,159,942.00 and climbing. What we have is an entitlement program for Halliburten and like corporations. How about cutting some fat from THEM? The social services systems in this country are so bare bone, they look like the victims of an Ethiopian famine. As for short term programs - what do you do about people who are permanently disabled or permanently old? Take them out and shoot them after 5 years? I suspect you are making the classic mistake of looking at people who get huge disability awards from private insurance companies. Those of us who must depend on the SSDI program (a government disability program which workers paid into with their OWN money) very often do not recieve enough to survive. You cannot survive on $625.00 a month which is what I get. |
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10-09-2004, 08:51 PM | #12 |
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You're right about the war numbers Marichiko. I mistyped that. I meant $200 Billion.
As for the rest of it, well, get a job. Do something. I feel no responsibility to pay tax money to care for you on a long term basis. |
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10-09-2004, 09:08 PM | #14 |
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Getting religion seems to be another option, as they are controlling a big chunk of charitable monies, these days.
Have you ever figured out just how much you paid into SSDI?
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