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Barack Obama

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Cha

(313,157 posts)
6. Bless your voice in the
Thu Apr 11, 2013, 10:36 PM
Apr 2013

roar of the lynch mob, Madame.

I'm a senior who's living on my SS. I'm also fortunate to have HUD to help with my rent.

A snip..

HUD's FY2013 budget also reflects the need to ensure that America’s future isn’t built on a mountain of debt. As a down payment toward reducing the deficit, the 2011 Budget Control Act capped discretionary spending for the next ten years, cutting the deficit by $907 billion over 10 years and bringing non-security discretionary spending to the lowest share of the economy since President Eisenhower. HUD's proposed budget achieves substantial results for vulnerable people and distressed communities in the new fiscal environment. The budget:

•Maintains housing assistance for all families currently receiving rental subsidies;
•Serves almost 2.5 million families living in public housing and project-based Section 8 developments (over 60% elderly and disabled);
•Supports tenant-based vouchers for more than 2.2 million families (over 45% elderly and disabled);
•Provides 10,000 new vouchers to homeless and funds 5,300 more supportive housing units for the elderly and disabled;
•Enables FHA and Ginnie Mae to continue crucial, temporary countercyclical role, with 1.2 million single family mortgages expected in 2013 and $239 billion in new GNMA guarantees;
•Brings private capital back to the market through FHA premium increases and other measures;
•Assists nearly 5.5 million households, over 82,000 more than at the end of fiscal year 2011; and
•Creates or retains 423,000 jobs directly and 360,000 more jobs indirectly.
http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/press/press_releases_media_advisories/2012/HUDNo.12-029

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Keeping score [View all] madamesilverspurs Apr 2013 OP
This is great! babylonsister Apr 2013 #1
Please proceed madamesilverspurs! sheshe2 Apr 2013 #2
I love that line! Lady Freedom Returns Apr 2013 #8
Me too! sheshe2 Apr 2013 #9
Er eh no actually... jimlup Apr 2013 #3
What has he caved on that he's had control over? babylonsister Apr 2013 #4
No need - you've put irrelevant conditions on the situation jimlup Apr 2013 #7
"He hasn't caved because his interests are those of the elites he serves and not the people." sheshe2 Apr 2013 #10
IIf you don't support him or thinks he does not represnts you... Lady Freedom Returns Apr 2013 #11
Hum? I'm not in this group jimlup Apr 2013 #13
What would constitute "caving" in the case of the chained CPI? tularetom Apr 2013 #5
"He's already offered it Summer Hathaway Apr 2013 #12
+1 Jamaal510 Apr 2013 #14
Bless your voice in the Cha Apr 2013 #6
So your own words carry extra weight, my friend. IrishAyes Apr 2013 #15
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