Paul Ryan and the repubLIECONS propose slashing low income housing aid..

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/16/2012-budget-housing-aid-house-gop_n_824189.html



WASHINGTON -- Amid the worst housing crisis in generations, House Republicans have put forward a federal budget proposal that would significantly cut funding for housing-assistance programs that serve the nation's poor.

The proposed continuing resolution, a stopgap budget measure that would keep the government running through Sept. 30, would cut $5.7 billion from the affordable housing programs of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, which has a total budget of $43.5 billion. It would cut $551 million from a program that subsidizes rent checks for low-income seniors, $210 million from a similar program for poor Americans with disabilities, and eliminate housing counseling services for families battling foreclosure, making it harder for them to fight the loss of their

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1. No way! Your so worried about the budget.... Get rid of your entitlement tax cuts

for the wealthy...

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4. They don't give a damn..

they are trying to kill us each and every way they can think of when they are the reason the country is in the shape it is in..

[liberal N proud]

2. They don't need it so why would anyone else.

These pricks are just selfish children with a lot of power.

:nuke:

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3. More to come...

[PA Democrat]

5. Bullies go after those who can't fight back.

[butterfly77]

6. They will...

very soon.

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7. ....

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8. I forgot that Ryan was from Wisconsin..

The House GOP plan has NLIHC and other advocates for low-income Americans in crisis mode. Though a budget proposal from President Barack Obama would also cut poverty programs, the advocates stressed that if some of the programs targeted in the Republican proposal are eliminated, it could take years to re-implement them.

Last month, the National Alliance to End Homelessness issued a report indicating that the number of homeless people in the United States climbed by 20,000 between 2008 and 2009, as the worst economic calamity since the Great Depression forced greater numbers of families into deep poverty. Housing costs are tremendous expense for the nation's poor-- nearly three in four Americans living below the poverty line spend at least half of their income on rent, according to the report.

"This is absolutely going to increase homelessness," Couch said of the GOP plan, which would also cut aid programs for the homeless. "These are people who, without public subsidies, will immediately be paying far more for housing than they can afford."

The House Republican proposal would go so far as to cut the so-called "preservation" fund for pub