12 Ways the Sequester Will Screw the Poor

[Fire Walk With Me]

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12 Ways the Sequester Will Screw the Poor. Will it screw you as well? http://bit.ly/13tFcnL


http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/02/budget-cuts-sequester-low-income-poor

Public housing subsidies: $1.9 billion in cuts would affect 125,000 low-income people who would lose access to vouchers to help them with their rent.

Foreclosure prevention: 75,000 fewer people would receive foreclosure prevention, rental, and homeless counseling services.

Emergency housing: 100,000 formerly homeless people could be removed from their current emergency shelters.

Educational programs: Learning programs for poor kids would see a total of $2.7 billion in cuts. The $400 million slashed from Head Start, the preschool program for poor children, would result in reduced services for some 70,000 kids.

(More at the link.)

[Lady Freedom Returns]

1. The nasty part is that many have no clue what this will do to their "neighbors".

So many have no clue what is going to happen to shelters, food pantries, section-8, even to the unemployment insurance that many will need after they loss their jobs over this!

Sorry to tell people this, but the government does make jobs. This is going to be a slow rolling snowball and we the US citizens are the target!

Oh, and watch your local crime rates. Watch what kind of crimes start going up. You will see more break-ins, more prostitutions, more muggings.

[Fire Walk With Me]

2. "You will see more break-ins, more prostitutions, more muggings."

And more for-profit prisons funded by taxpayer dollars!

[Lady Freedom Returns]

3. How true!

Someone, somewhere will find a silver lining in this.