I have to hand it to her; Marcia Fudge tried her best to improve the lives of those who are poverty stricken and cannot afford to pay rent without badly needed assistance from Housing and Urban Development.
HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge to resign, says affordable housing is ‘an American issue’
Fudge worries there’s not enough funding for all the work still needed, including building more affordable housing and repairing aging public housing developments.
She wished the agency had gotten more than $3 billion to improve public housing and multi-family housing. The need is more than $70 billion, she said.
Now, how much imaginary American taxpayer dollars has Joe Biden thrown at Ukraine so that Zelensky could purchase multi-million-dollar yachts, and multi-million-dollar condos in Dubai?
$113 billion: Where the US investment in Ukraine aid has gone
In August, as part of a larger request that included domestic disaster relief funding, the White House asked Congress to approve another $24 billion for Ukraine. This money would go to a variety of things, including replenishing the Pentagon’s arsenal with equipment sent to Ukraine.
It is crystal clear that the Biden Administration is not about the business of helping American citizens who have descended into abject poverty thanks to outrageous inflation, overpriced garbage in grocery stores masquerading as food, over-inflated rents due to greedy corporations raking in the dough from skint Americans who cannot afford to pay rent, put food on the table, pay daycare expenses for their children while they work; the whole nine yards. Because it is essential that U.S. defense and military contractors make out like the damn bandits they are by being thrown our imaginary tax dollars.
Boeing, Lockheed Martin, RTX Corporation, Northrup Grumman Corporation and other manufacturers of the war machines are making a killing hand over foot by being continuously supplied with our tax dollars to crank out weapons of war, while housing homeless people is consigned to a mere afterthought by indifferent politicians.
Housing and Urban Development could have been fully funded, and no one need sit out on the streets, dying because they are homeless, but because war will always win out, profits over people will always take precedence, wars will be funded first and foremost to the detriment of humankind.
I have posted picture after picture on this very blog of homeless encampment after homeless encampment. I have depicted “The Homeless Memorial March” that took place back in December, whereas we marched through the streets holding a sign with a dead homeless person’s name on it and many were elderly people and even a homeless baby was depicted on one of the signs.
Meanwhile, the Biden Administration is trying to get Americans to understand that Americans need to re-elect Biden when we did not elect his ass in the first place since the election was stolen from Donald Trump. And it is highly likely that the same scenario is going to play out again. Nothing that is going on today makes any sense at all. We have keyboard warriors holding forth telling us that they need to continue to sit at the keyboard and with microphone hooked up, tell us to take to the streets while they merely remind us that our shit is fucked up when no one need be reminded of that shit since people like me are out on the streets doing the damn leg work while the keyboard warrior crew beg for donations and superchat money on Youtube videos. I don’t ask y’all for a goddamn thing because I don’t believe in capitalism. Capitalism can kiss my ass! You will never find me with begging cap in hand asking for a damn donation so that I can continue to sit on Youtube and post video after video lambasting others for not doing a damn thing about a damn thing when I’m not either.
I take my ass out on the streets, daily, helping homeless people find a place to stay at night, giving them money for a hot meal or even buying the hot meal for them. I wear the soles of my two pairs of shoes out marching to showcase the homeless who died for lack of a home, and I ask nothing of anyone for doing so. My Black ass sat out on the streets, homeless for eight damn months during the coldest part of the year and I never begged a soul for anything even though I went days and weeks without eating, weeks at a time without sleeping. But never did I beg for one damn crumb, but I will not demonize those who do beg. They are just not as stubborn and stupid as I am because when they are hungry, they know to beg to see if they can get fed. I have given bus fare to those who did not have it and the bus driver refused to give them a “courtesy ride” and it was cold as fuck outside. I am not tooting my own horn, but I am showcasing the difference between being all talk and walking the damn walk. Those of you who merely sit somewhere in the comfort of your home, get your asses up and walk the walk and stop merely talking about what needs to be done. Nothing gets done by merely talking about it. That helps who?
You can see that the damn government is not going to step in and do a damn thing since the focus will always remain on finding countries to make war against as opposed to putting our money where it will do the most good and housing homeless people would do the most good which is why Housing and Urban Development will never be fully funded, but you can bet your candy ass that the Department of Defense will continue to receive a bloated budget to fund wars started by this shithole!
As to Marcia Fudge stepping down, I don’t blame you. You did what you could with what you had, and you are to be commended for lasting as long as you did because it cannot have been easy seeing so much need and trying to make such a limited budget, work. My hat is off to you, Ms. Fudge. At the age of 71, you most definitely deserve to retire and spend time with your elderly mother. And you are right when you say that “Affordable housing is an American issue.” It is not just a Black issue; it is not just a white issue. It is an American issue, especially since I have showcased that fact on this very blog. There are millions of homeless Black Americans as well as homeless white Americans. Don’t believe it? Check out the pictures of these homeless people.
Homeless, thanks to poverty and the fact that Housing and Urban Development will never be fully funded.
Homeless thanks to a lack of affordable housing and HUD’s budget is woefully inadequate to keep up with the need for affordable housing.
We continue to march through the streets carrying the signs depicting the names of the homeless dead since housing is not considered a “human right.” War rights are more important!
Homeless encampments will continue to grow all across America thanks to elected officials’ complete disregard for the health and wellbeing of America’s citizens.
More Americans will end up in fucked up homeless shelters like the one pictured above whereas I had to stay when I was evicted for paying my rent for five goddamn years, paid it early each month and still got evicted and ended up in that fucked up homeless shelter. Racism and war will never end.
This is what happens when people have no home. This is what happens when we ignore mass homelessness. It grows. It would cost less to house people than to continue to encourage homelessness to explode. Do you think that homeless people are healthy and since they are not, what happens? They cost more money with emergency room visits; crime is higher as well since people with nothing will get by somehow. But yet, the mainstream media blames these people for being too broke to afford the outrageous cost of housing.
How in the world are Indians homeless? The sign says it all!!!
Believe me, we will ALL regret not demanding fully funding Housing and Urban Development. We will ALL regret continuous wars. When we refuse to help the least of us, the most of us will soon follow. Wait for it. Your turn is coming. No one is immune to this. No one.