Posted on 01/25/2005 3:18:36 PM PST by SmithL
LOS ANGELES -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the nation's top housing official announced Tuesday that homeless programs nationwide will receive a record $1.4 billion in Housing and Urban Development grants.
HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson said an unprecedented number of local projects will receive the federal funding, which includes $228 million for California.
An increasing number of faith-based organizations will be among the 4,400 local programs across the country receiving the aid.
The announcement was made at the PATH Residential Service Center, a facility near downtown that provides a range of social services to the homeless.
"I have always said that I will be 'The Collectinator,' and I always will make sure we get help from the federal government and we get our fair share," Schwarzenegger said, referring to his roles in the "Terminator" action movies.
The Republican governor has been criticized by some Democrats for not getting more federal funds for California.
In 2003, the state received 78 cents in services and goods for each $1 sent in taxes to the federal government, according to the Washington-based Tax Foundation.
Schwarzenegger said he has been "nurturing" the relationship between California and the federal government since gaining office in a 2003 recall election. He said the homeless funding was a result of his work.
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I can hear Jesse Jackson, Sharpton, Kerry and the other nuts saying this still isnt enough..
What you subsidize you get more of. It would be nice if that money went to reopening mental institutions so the scizophrenic among them could at least be looked after decently instead of wandering the streets.
$ 1.4 billion? Bullets would be cheaper...even taking into account the land costs for a pauper's cemetery. / semi-sarcasm
Bus tickets would be better; send 'em to a less crowded blue state.
With all the patients' rights laws and pressure groups nowadays, you'll never see a return to large-scale institutionalization of the mentally ill.
After the Dimwit theft of the governship, Washington sounds like the place to ship them.
They'd fit in nicely in upstate Wisconsin or Minnesota.
Hmmmm I think you're perhaps a bit confused.
"In 2003, the state received 78 cents in services and goods for each $1 sent in taxes to the federal government, according to the Washington-based Tax Foundation."
Something for everybody.
With all the patients' rights laws and pressure groups nowadays, you'll never see a return to large-scale institutionalization of the mentally ill.
Public opinion has done a 180 in the three decades since One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Everyone knows now that schizophrenia is an organic brain disease and not a matter of being born sane in a crazy world. If a concerted political effort was made I would bet the ACLU and co. would drop the issue like a hot potato. Just imagine day after day of tearful testimony by victim's families on the Hill.
Puhleeze....keep funding the homeless in California... just keep building shelters and "aid"... and get the free loading, drunk, dope addict, malingering losers in California....in fact I'd pay for all the homeless to get one way tickets from Texas to California.
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