I am now officially stressing over my job and if I will have one after July 1st, the new fiscal year.

I am a home provider for an individual with developmental/physical disabilities. Our wonderful republican representatives have seen fit to offer a budget that strips away most of the money that is earmarked for the disabled community and they will be loosing their funding. This in turn means that those of us who work in the field of supporting these individuals will loose our jobs. It also means that these individuals will have no options for support/health management/mental health management/day programs etc. Talk about yanking the rug out from under the most vulnerable members of this society!!! It's absolutely disgusting in my mind.

I normally don't freak out over such things, but this is really getting to me. Should I loose my job, I will be homeless and have absolutely no income. I have a van so I guess I will be living in it, that is until it gets reposessed because I can't make the payments on it. Where I will store all my belongings is beyond me as I won't be able to pay for a storage unit.

I certainly won't be able to apply for welfare/foodstamps because those are being cut drastically as well. About the only thing I might be able to do is to apply for social security disability and we all know how long that takes and the hoops one has to jump through to attain it. I can get on a waiting list for section 8 housing.....it's a 10 year waiting list at this time here. In the mean time, it looks like I'll be screwed, blued and tatooed.

I've been in some difficult situations throughout my life before, but I have to say that this one takes the cake.

ps: please don't make this a political thread, I only mentioned who was making it difficult to make the thread more clear.