President Donald Trump wants to eliminate HOME Investment Partnerships Program, and House Republicans overseeing federal budget negotiations did not include funding for it in their budget proposal. Experts and state housing agencies say that would set back tens of thousands of future affordable housing developments nationwide, particularly hurting Appalachian towns and rural counties where government aid is sparse and investors are few.
What I still don’t get is, where do they think all this “saved tax money” is going? Do they think it’ll come back to them? Do they think the government, fat on (to use their verbiage) handouts, are going to ask less of them?
No, this “saved money” isn’t paying off national debt, it’s going straight into private pockets one way or another, followed only by another six trillion dollar aircraft carrier and Ai powered mega-proprietary vaporware jets nobody asked for.
They will cheer for cutting their own food stamps as they watch a half-assed military parade ramble through the Capitol, a display of ego that dwarfs their entire town’s annual revenue within a mere couple of hours.
The power grid wavers, the bridges crumble, the un-rotated crops wither, the potholes grow, and the school’s ceilings leak, but hey if you wanted a shot at education you could’ve just joined the Army in the first place, serf!
“We’re all in this together” they say as they talk about “growing pains” and “pulling weight”, as they shit in gilded thrones aboard their yachts and hold a Bible aloft whilst spitting down on their neighbor.
At least we’re FREE™ unlike the latter days of Soviet Russia! /s