|
|
|---|
|
American Politics Journal Atrios Barry Crimmins Betty Bowers Buzzflash Consortium News Daily Howler Daily Kos Democatic Underground Disinfotainment Today Evil GOP Bastards Faux News Channel Greg Palast The Hollywood Liberal Internet Weekly Jesus General Joe Conason Josh Marshall Liberal Oasis Make Them Accountable Mark Morford Mike Malloy Political Humor - About.com Political Wire Randi Rhodes Rude Pundit Smirking Chimp Take Back the Media Whitehouse.org More Links |
Obama:
Poor don't need heat in the winter
A trillion dollars for the super-rich
but the poor can do without heat?
If Obama wanted to focus attention
on his willingness to
take on Democratic Party sacred cows
to please
The Butch and The Boner, he could've hardly done better than to
reveal that his new
budget will propose cutting billions of dollars from the program that
helps struggling homeowners provide heat.
Marc Ambinder says the proposed cuts to the Low Income Home Energy
Program or LIHEAP
is meant to signal Obama's seriousness about cutting federal spending.
You mean after you gave the super-rich a trillion dollars
for no goddamn reason, NOW you
want to get serious about spending by telling the poor they can do
without f-ing heat?
I wonder what candidate Obama would've said in 2008 about
such a heartless proposal?
Obama's proposed 2012 budget will
cut several billion dollars from the government's energy
assistance fund for poor people, officials briefed on the subject told
National Journal.
It's the biggest domestic spending cut disclosed so far, and one that
will likely generate the
most heat from the president's traditional political allies. That would
satisfy the White House,
which has a vested interest in convincing Americans that it is
serious about budget discipline
bending
over backwards to please The Bitch and The Boner.
The Low Income Program, would see funding drop by about $3 billion from
a total of $5.1 billion.
You're cutting poor peoples' heat by 40 percent?
Why not just come out and say, "Fuck the poor - let them freeze to death?"
I can't wait for the Obama apologists to explain why this is OK.
The proposed cut will not touch the program's
emergency reserve fund,
about $590 million,
which can be used during particularly harsh cold snaps or extended heat
spells.
Which means what?
If it's merely 40 degrees outside, the poor can just huddle under some
blankets?
This news hasn't been out there
long enough for much of a wave of liberal anger to build yet.
But this is one of those issues where the White House may want to start
battening down the hatches.
The Bitch and The Boner to make getting re-elected easier.
And if the poor freeze to death, they'll die knowing that Obama was serious when he
promised them back in 2008 that he represented change you could believe in.