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How about congress just gets back to the basics and if they are going to put money into programs set some pretty strict limits on it. It used to be that people would fix up starter houses and then sell those starter houses to another couple as they moved into a bigger place. People held the mortgages so the others could afford to get themselves a home. My grandmother in fact never got fully paid on a house she owned because the family had an illness and then grand didn't want to make their life any harder because they had ten children and needed all the lil bits of grace life would afford them. Instead of putting it all off on government teach people to be more caring and responsible.I prefer to have people clean up their own damn backyards and quit telling everyone else that they must accept more government for more taxes can be collected for more asshats can collect taxpayer moneys and leave more poor people on the streets.If you are concerned about housing take it up with your state legislators, county supervisor or council members and city council members and mayors because they are the ones who determine what can and will be built in whatever area you live in. Unless of course you live in a place where you can actually build whatever the hell you want, however you want to build it. It isn't up to the federal government to make sure houses get built. If you can't build yourself a shack these days for little to nothing you are probably in a bad area to live so move to where life is a bit more friendly and go down and get yourself some crates, pallets and such and start building yourself some shelter. You can probably find just about everything you need for little to nothing. All you need is a few tools. Hell if you live in an area where it doesn't rain all the time you can build a shelter with sand bags, a few stakes and some tim for a roof.eh, opportunity zones seem to be another bag of hot air : What You Need to Know About Opportunity Zones
and that first step act seems like really small improvements (First Step Act - Wikipedia) that end up meaning very little in a system that still racially profiles *and* keeps poverty at (sorta) current levels.
and if people are forced into tents on the streets, Trump wants to :
Trump’s Plan to Solve Homelessness Is Horrifying
instead of making ordinary housing and jobs available for these people!reporting in The Washington Post had suggested that the White House was proposing to demolish tent cities in San Francisco and Los Angeles, increase the “role of police” in monitoring homelessness, and potentially incarcerate the homeless in government-run facilities.
so cut your ramblings about how Trump supports the middle class and the blacks,
they're all empty promises and the tiniest of economic improvements that are then blown up by being called substantial,
by people like you.
i'd prefer to see the right kinda policies flow down right from the top dude.
not first make people homeless, then not support them, then imprison them while calling it "shelter".
i agree the middle class is taxed enough already, but what about making businesses suffer a little in the now to secure everyone's future against known and verified threats like climate change, or taxing the richest just a little more for part of that wealth that they spend on luxury trips and "items"?
how do you feel about that?
Businesses are needed for people who are not capable of working for themselves can have jobs.
Sorry I'm not into "punishing" people for being blessed enough to make enough to have a few luxuries. I can see not giving millionaires and billionaires taxpayer welfare payments and/or laws and regulations that force people to buy their products.