tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19330072.post950832747074935240..comments2023-11-05T02:09:28.593-08:00Comments on The Wattree Chronicle: Poverty Pimp, Inc.Eric L. Wattreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12274557716416369719noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19330072.post-34810436747518539782013-01-30T16:26:26.632-08:002013-01-30T16:26:26.632-08:00MORE
- Promote Affordable Homeownership and Prote...MORE<br /><br />- Promote Affordable Homeownership and Protect Families from Mortgage Fraud: "The Budget requests $88 million for HUD to support homeownership and foreclosure prevention through Housing Counseling and $20 million to combat mortgage fraud. In addition, the Budget requests $250 million for the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation’s (NRC) grant and training programs. Of the $250 million, $113 million is requested for foreclosure prevention activities, a $48 million increase (74 percent) over 2010."<br />.<br />- Fight Gang Violence and Violent Crime: "The Budget provides $112 million for place-based, evidence supported, initiatives to combat violence in local communities, including $25 million for the Community-Based Violence Prevention Initiatives that aim to reduce gun and other violence among youth gangs in cities and towns across the country, and $37 million for the Attorney General’s Children Exposed to Violence Initiative, which targets the youth most affected by violence and most susceptible to propagating it as they grow up."<br />.<br />- Expand Prisoner Re-entry Programs: "The Budget provides $144 million for Department Justice prisoner re-entry programs, including an additional $100 million for the Office of Justice Programs to administer grant programs authorized by the Second Chance Act and $30 million for residential substance abuse treatment programs in State and local prisons and jails. In addition, the Budget provides $98 million for Department of Labor programs that provide employment-centered services to adult and youth ex-offenders and at-risk youth.."<br />.<br />- Fully Fund the Community Development Block Grant Program: "The Budget provides $4.4 billion for the Community Development Fund, including $3.99 billion for the Community Development Block Grant Formula Program (CDBG), and $150 million for the creation of a Catalytic Investment Competition Grants program. The new Catalytic Competition Grants program uses the authorities of CDBG, but will provide capital to bring innovative economic development projects to scale to make a measurable impact."<br />.<br />Now, what has Tavis Smiley and Cornel West done - other than promote their shows and try to sell you books and "ghetto loans?" Absolutely nothing.<br /><br />RELATED ARTICLES<br />.<br />Here are 206 Obama Accomplishments, With Citations!<br />http://pleasecutthecrap.typepad.com/main/what-has-obama-done-since-january-20-2009.html<br />Eric L. Wattreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12274557716416369719noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19330072.post-10781931380847303362013-01-30T16:25:54.430-08:002013-01-30T16:25:54.430-08:00MORE
- Prevent Hunger and Improve Nutrition: &quo...MORE<br /><br />- Prevent Hunger and Improve Nutrition: "The President’s Budget provides $8.1 billion for discretionary nutrition program supports, which is a $400 million increase over the 2010 enacted level. Funding supports 10 million participants in the WIC program, which is critical to the health of pregnant women, new mothers, and their infants. The Budget also supports a strong Child Nutrition and WIC reauthorization package that will ensure that school children have access to healthy meals and to help fulfill the President’s pledge to end childhood hunger. The President continues to support the nutrition provisions incorporated in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)."<br />.<br />- Revitalize Distressed Urban Neighborhoods: "The Budget includes $250 million for HUD’s Choice Neighborhoods program, which will target neighborhoods anchored by distressed public or assisted housing with physical and social revitalization grounded in promising, measurable, and evidence-based strategies."<br />.<br />- Increase Funding for the Housing Choice Voucher Program: "The President’s Budget requests $19.6 billion for the Housing Choice Voucher program to help more than two million extremely low income families with rental assistance to live in decent housing in neighborhoods of their choice. The Budget continues funding for all existing mainstream vouchers and provides flexibility to support new vouchers that were leased and $85 million in special purpose vouchers for homeless families with children, families at risk of homelessness, and persons with disabilities."<br />.<br />- Preserve 1.3 Million Affordable Rental Units through Project-Based Rental Assistance Program: "The President’s Budget provides $9.4 billion for the Project-Based Rental Assistance program to preserve approximately 1.3 million affordable rental units through increased funding for contracts with private owners of multifamily properties. This critical investment will help low-income households to obtain or retain decent, safe and sanitary housing. In addition, the Administration requests $350 million to fund the first phase of this multi-year initiative to regionalize the Housing Choice Voucher program and convert Public Housing to project-based vouchers."<br />.<br />Eric L. Wattreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12274557716416369719noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19330072.post-50750789403013026202013-01-30T16:24:22.574-08:002013-01-30T16:24:22.574-08:00MORE
- Reforming the Job Training System: "T...MORE<br /><br />- Reforming the Job Training System: "The Budget calls for reform of the Workforce Investment Act (WIA), which supports almost 3,000 One-Stop Career Centers nationwide and a range of other services. With $6 billion for WIA at DOL—and an additional $4 billion in the Department of Education—the Budget calls for reforms to improve WIA." Strengthen Anti-Discrimination Enforcement: "To strengthen civil rights enforcement against racial, ethnic, sexual orientation, religious, and gender discrimination, the Budget includes an 11 percent increase in funding to the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division. This investment will help the Division handle implementation of a historic new hate crimes law. The Budget also provides an $18 million, or 5 percent increase, for the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission (EEOC), which is responsible for enforcing federal laws that make it illegal to discriminate against a job applicant or an employee. This increased investment will allow for more staff to reduce the backlog of private sector charges." <br />.<br />- Support Historically Black Colleges and Universities: "The Budget proposes $642 million, an increase of $30 million over the 2010 level, to support Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs), including Historically Black Colleges and Universities. In addition to this discretionary funding increase for MSIs, the Administration supports legislation passed by the House of Representatives and pending in the Senate that would provide $2.55 billion in mandatory funding to MSIs over 10 years."<br />.<br />- Help Families Struggling with Child Care Costs: "The Budget will nearly double the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit for middle-class families making under $85,000 a year by increasing their credit rate from 20 percent to 35 percent of child care expenses. Nearly all eligible families making under $115,000 a year would see a larger credit. The Budget also provides critical support for young children and their families by building on historic increases provided in ARRA. The Budget provides an additional $989 million for Head Start and Early Head Start to continue to serve 64,000 additional children and families funded in ARRA."<br />.<br />- Reform Elementary and Secondary School Funding: "The Budget supports the Administration’s new vision for the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) … The Budget provides a $3 billion increase in funding for K-12 education programs authorized in the ESEA, including $900 million for School Turnaround Grants, and the Administration will request up to $1 billion in additional funding if Congress successfully completes ESEA reauthorization." <br />.<br />- Increase Pell Grants: "The Recovery Act and 2009 appropriations bill increased the maximum Pell Grant by more than $600 for a total award of $5,350. The Budget proposes to make that increase permanent and put them on a path to grow faster than inflation every year, increasing the maximum grant by $1,000, expanding eligibility, and nearly doubling the total amount of Pell grants since the President took office." <br />.<br />- Help Relieve Student Loan Debt: "To help graduates overburdened with student loan debt, the Administration will strengthen income-based repayment plans for student loans by reducing monthly payments and shortening the repayment period so that overburdened borrowers will pay only 10 percent of their discretionary income in loan repayments and can have their remaining debt forgiven after 20 years. Those in public service careers will have their debt forgiven after 10 years. The Budget also expands low-cost Perkins student loans."<br />Eric L. Wattreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12274557716416369719noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19330072.post-57428749189475724802013-01-30T16:22:08.060-08:002013-01-30T16:22:08.060-08:00Vic,
There's no speculation here. I used to b...Vic,<br /><br />There's no speculation here. I used to be a big admirer of Smiley and West as well. But I've taken the time to research them for the past five years. They're using President Obama as a human shield by accusing anyone who see through their self-serving agenda is simply an Obama cheerleader. But they can't do that with me, because I've written several articles critical of Obama myself. So my interest in them is purely and simply, the manipulation and damage that they're doing to the Black community:<br /><br />So what has Obama done for the Poor, you ask? He's done the following - and this is just the short list:<br /><br />1). He stopped the nation from hemorrhaging 800,000 jobs A MONTH under Bush. I'd say that helped the poor and middle class.<br /><br />2). He stopped the nation from going into a second Great Depression. I would think, that also helped the poor and middle class.<br /><br />3). He saved the American auto industry. I’m pretty sure that also qualifies as helping the poor and middle class.<br /><br />4). He was the first president to successfully passed healthcare reform in 70 years. That not only helped, but will save the lives of many of the poor and middle class.<br /><br />5). He created more jobs in 27 months than Bush did in 7 years. That definitely helped the poor and middle class.<br /><br />6). While he was doing all of the things above, he also managed to get Osama Bin Laden in his spare time - and if you remember, Bush spent 7 years, upward of a TRILLION dollars, and killed or maimed thousands of American troops in that effort. But Obama managed to pull it off with two helicopters and a handful of men. <br />.<br />Bush and Cheney’s incompetence and greed in this matter destroyed and/or disrupted thousands of poor and middle class families, while the rich had to look at their ever-swelling war profits just to know that the nation was involved in conflict. The war had no impact on them at all, because the rich no longer send their kids to die for this country - that's a job for poor folks - and now they want us to pay for the war as well.<br />.<br />Thus, Bush and Cheney's mismanagement of both the economy, and the war in Iraq, played a major role in what got us in this economic quagmire in the first place. Yet, we didn’t hear a word from critics like Tavis Smiley and Cornel West during George W. Bush’s fiasco. Where were these two defenders of the poor and middle class then?<br />.<br />But Obama didn’t complain about that at all - he didn’t have time to complain, and he didn't have time to respond to the ridiculous charges of envious Black-on-Black racists. The president is an adult, with adult concerns, so he was, and is, much too busy cleaning up the mess left behind by the relative ear-splitting silence during the Bush administration of those who have suddenly discovered a newfound concern for "the least of these." <br />.<br />So while others were plotting, fighting for attention, and whining, President Obama was busy doing following:<br />. <br />- Spur Job Creation: "In addition, to help those most affected by the recession, the Budget will extend emergency assistance to seniors and families with children, Unemployment Insurance benefits, COBRA tax credits, and relief to states and localities to prevent layoffs." Eric L. Wattreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12274557716416369719noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19330072.post-4866466477002053482013-01-30T14:41:47.962-08:002013-01-30T14:41:47.962-08:00Very nice postulation my brotheer, and I'm goi...Very nice postulation my brotheer, and I'm going to continue to check out your posits. However, I'm not as concerned with what Tavis and West are doing because they are only seeking to gain some profit from the same capatilistic society that has been pimped by Sharpton and Joyner. My concern is with our dear Mr. President that 93% of African Americans supported for re-election. If you care, please read my blog: http://www.vicvents.org/2013/01/02/40-acres-and-a-mule-an-open-letter-to-the-president/, to see how I also tackle this issues. The false and misleading assumption is that the safety net (social programs) will take care of those in poverty, when in fact this is farthest from the truth. Given that I voted for the president each time, I deserve the right to crisize him. He war betwee Tavis and Tom is a different war, but it seems as Tom has relegated himself to pure hatred of Tavis, simply because the Tavis is critical of the President....and that shouldn't be...vichttp://www.vicvents.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19330072.post-6858734187640214142013-01-28T21:34:46.696-08:002013-01-28T21:34:46.696-08:00Pardu,
I'll be by there, but not to look over...Pardu,<br /><br />I'll be by there, but not to look over your shoulder. You have a great site, and it was great long before you even met me, so I have every faith in you. Eric L. Wattreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12274557716416369719noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19330072.post-31992017128177362852013-01-28T21:04:54.984-08:002013-01-28T21:04:54.984-08:00Scheduled to run at 1:00AM the 29th (tomorrow).......Scheduled to run at 1:00AM the 29th (tomorrow).....Let me know if it looks OK, will be out for the night, you might see it before night is over. The Parduhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15336411246374660587noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19330072.post-40378894668837494072013-01-28T18:29:58.154-08:002013-01-28T18:29:58.154-08:00No problem, Pardu,
Like I said, you can use anyth...No problem, Pardu,<br /><br />Like I said, you can use anything you like - and that's open-ended.<br /><br />EricEric L. Wattreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12274557716416369719noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19330072.post-26224775734230645962013-01-28T18:02:22.403-08:002013-01-28T18:02:22.403-08:00Since I have written about COINTELPRO and was of t...Since I have written about COINTELPRO and was of that age group, think I will borrow this one Bro Eric.The Parduhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15336411246374660587noreply@blogger.com