“Stimulus” Money To Be Spent On Ending Homelessness

Proof • July 11, 2009

The Associated Press has a run-down of the hundreds of millions the various states are getting for anti-homelessness programs as part of the economic “stimulus” spending spree. I’m wondering how in the world anyone can suggest that such spending is in any way, shape or form an economic stimulus.
This money is likely going to be spent on more homeless shelters. More case workers. More counselors. More soup and sandwich meals. Now, we can perhaps argue about whether or not government spending on these things is really an effective way to diminish homelessness, but can we at least admit that this sort of social spending does very little in the way of actually creating jobs? Something our economy desperately needs right now?
If anything, it actually makes things worse by creating more government (shelters, case workers, etc.) that the taxpayers in these states must continue to fund going forward. That puts more strain on already stretched (and in most cases broken) state budgets.
In short, Obama is making things worse. Not better.

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This money is likely going to be spent on more homeless shelters.

Why do you think this is the case? What are you basing it off?

Donovan said the money is would address two issues: preventing homelessness and rapidly finding places to live for those who are currently homeless. He said about 52 percent of the money will pay for prevention efforts.

(…)How the money is used will vary from community to community. A program in eastern Idaho, for example, would use stimulus cash to provide one-time payments for rent or mortgages to those who are facing eviction. In Fresno, Calif., the stimulus would be used to dismantle tent cities and move residents into privately owned apartments.

http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/money/20014780/detail.html

People who live in houses tend to spend more money than people who live in dumpsters.
CoonAZ

Yeah! Now I don’t have anything to worry about. Obama’s gonna feed me when I lose my job and can’t afford my house. Mo cheese please!
http://ndgoon.blogspot.com/ goon

If you go to the site that rob has linked in another article http://www.recovery.gov it would make your head spin to see where the government is pissing our money away.
mplsbob

You mean the majority of money that is taken from us by the government is spent on government and not the target that they intend to spend money on? Wow. I’m shocked. Government is not efficient and handling money? Maybe we should put them in charge of our health care.
-sarc
bill-tb

they were trumpeting near 4 million for homeless in our town tonight.

Sure is a weird way to create jobs.

What’s the odds it works?

Next time America hire an American for president.
opinion8ed

Good Post Rob…. I take it you have read HUD Bill 2010… Nice… 100 million in 2010 for Housing Counseling Assistance program… evidently there are people to stupid to buy a house but do so anyways. Page 23 says that 20% of carbon emissions come from single family home, and another 20% come from autos. The solution… we could nudge people into multifamily housing units and insist on public transportation. The HPRP Program is nice isn’t it… (Homeless Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Act) free short term rentals for 3 months paid, and mid-term free rent money for 18 months…do not forget about the security deposit, utility deposit, utility payments, moving costs and hotel vouchers, can you say FREE HOUSING… Barack was against reparations because they simply did not go far enough, are we getting closer, Barack. This guy makes me throw up in my mouth…
jimmypop

People who live in houses tend to spend more money than people who live in dumpsters.

NOT IF THEY CANT AFFORD THE HOUSE! its fools like you that got us where we are. poor people need to be POOR unless they CHOOSE to make money.
http://reaganiterepublicanresistance.blogspot.com/ Reaganite Republican

Obama’s “stimulus” is a train-wreck- these jobs figures are far worse than the ones the White House warned us about if we DIDN’T pass the bill- so it was passed, and then unemployment soars anyway?

Instead of creating jobs, interest rates were bumped up, the dollar slid… and it didn’t help anybody get any work. Much of this is due to the fact that Obama’s agenda has mortified almost every machine of job-and-growth creation in the country.

The One couldn’t deliver the type of “temporary, targeted, and timely” bill that he promised repeatedly, and regardless of his image in the press, Obama simply lacks the the political stature to control Pelosi and Reid… who hit the trough hard, while bickering like siblings.

And the lack of GOP co-conspirators exposed Obama politically… this legislation now looks to be a HUGE gamble. And when all this pork-n-welfare fails to generate any real economic gains, the Democrats will face a bloodbath in 2010.

http://reaganiterepublicanresistance.blogspot.com
http://reaganiterepublicanresistance.blogspot.com/ Reaganite Republican

Obama’s “stimulus” is a train-wreck- these jobs figures are far worse than the ones the White House warned us about if we DIDN’T pass the bill- so it was passed, and then unemployment soars anyway?

Instead of creating jobs, interest rates were bumped up, the dollar slid… and it didn’t help anybody get any work. Much of this is due to the fact that Obama’s agenda has mortified almost every machine of job-and-growth creation in the country.

The One couldn’t deliver the type of “temporary, targeted, and timely” bill that he promised repeatedly, and regardless of his image in the press, Obama simply lacks the the political stature to control Pelosi and Reid… who hit the trough hard, while bickering like siblings.

And the lack of GOP co-conspirators exposed Obama politically… this legislation now looks to be a HUGE gamble. And when all this pork-n-welfare fails to generate any real economic gains, the Democrats will face a bloodbath in 2010.
sayanything-6955

I thought the homeless problem was only a problem during the Reagan and Bush years?
http://suitepotato.blogspot.com/ sayanything-4808

If you had more than three braincells Toad you might be dangerous.

We spend close to $20K per year per person (of both genders and all ages) on welfare. The average person actually on welfare collects a total of maybe $15K with a few kids. This means that a mother with two kids on welfare should be worth $60K but in actuality $45K never reaches those it ostensibly is for.

Actually, it is more than 75% that never reaches them since that $20K figure is as I said for both genders and all ages, and we don’t actually have all qualifying people on welfare, as many are supported by relatives instead. It’s closer to 80% of our welfare expenditures which are never reaching the allegedly intended people.

Where does that go?

Rob:

This money is likely going to be spent on more homeless shelters. More case workers. More counselors.

It also goes to the payments for the buildings in which those people are housed, the secretaries, the janitors, the power bills to light and heat and cool them, payments made in lieu of property taxes between the state and federal people and the towns in which the offices reside…

We have a gigantic overburden of upper middle class people who work in the handing out of table scraps to needy people, and doing it in such a way as to discourage them from ever getting off that system so as to keep them poor and beholden to the politicians who arranged those scraps, while the lion’s share of a feast paid for by monies extorted from working contributing members of society was diverted amorally to the politically connected.

If you are contributor to the coffers of socialist Democrat politicians, you’d have to be a convicted child molester to not get a job as a welfare functionary collecting $45K a year at a job that comes with more perks and benefits than your neighbor working in the IT industry and in which you are harder to fire for incompetence and uselessness than he is.

Cushy good paying jobs, going to mostly white upper middle class suburbanites who kick back enough of that to the re-election campaigns of just the right Democrats every two, four or six years.

Poor people, mostly minority, can go suck eggs in their system.
http://suitepotato.blogspot.com/ sayanything-4808

This entire administration thus far has been the single biggest abandonment of ethics, embrace of immorality, and hog to the trough opportunism that the USA has ever seen in over two hundred years.

We’re less than a full seven months into Obama’s administration and the amount of money pledged to be spent exceeds the last several years’ federal budgets already, and as it increases the national deficit and debt outrageously it only damages the economy and devalues the very dollars that it spends thus increasing the damage even further.

Worse yet perhaps is the growing realization of not only the politically minded conservatives, but also the liberal rank and file themselves of exactly how overreaching this is, much in the manner of someone who’s chased down someone at breakneck speed and suddenly come up short with a shotgun to their face held by a friend of their quarry, and that the general public also is starting to notice this, and that neither congress nor Obama are exhibiting anything remotely like a sense of conscience as to this all being wrong.

The Democrats look like naked swine and show not a sign of any regret or modesty.

The people see that there are still forty-one months to go and the mental concept of “if present trends continue” starts to come into play and they can see that the USA could become economically speaking a third world country before the end of 2010.

They see the Democrats still plunging ahead signing blank checks to political cronies and making payoffs (ACORN receiving one dime at the signature of a president who worked with/for them is as obvious a conflict of interest as you can possibly get) with our money, and the money of our children, and the money of their children yet to be born.

How long can that go on?

Whatever time that is, when it is over, you know how it ends if it isn’t by the ballot box.

COMPILE THEIR CRIMES, DOCUMENT THEIR CRIMES, PRESENT THEM TO THE VOTERS FROM NOW TILL THE 2010 ELECTIONS RELENTLESSLY.
sayanything-6955

Perhaps we can get some free space at O bummers brothers pad, er hut.
sayanything-6955

The people see that there are still forty-one months to go and the mental concept of “if present trends continue” starts to come into play and they can see that the USA could become economically speaking a third world country before the end of 2010.

All humor aside, your right on the money suite.

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