Obama To Cut Heating Oil Aid To The Poor

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President Obama is planning to request that funding for heating oil aid to the poor be cut in half in his upcoming budget proposal, according to several news reports.

The president would seek to reduce the Low Income Home Energy Heating Assistance Program from the current funding of $5.1 billion to $2.6 billion, the Associated Press said, citing a source familiar with the budget discussions. Obama is expected to release his overall budget proposal on Monday. It would cover the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1.

Advocates for the poor consider the program a lifeline to struggling homeowners in the winter. So far this season, Massachusetts has received $173 million; the poorest households in the state would receive $1,050 to help pay their heating bills. About 200,000 Bay State households qualified for the aid last year.



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Fuck the poor, let them freeze...... Der leader no longer has any use for them. Tell the poor fuckers to move somewhere warm.
 
webbway said:
President Obama is planning to request that funding for heating oil aid to the poor be cut in half in his upcoming budget proposal, according to several news reports.

The president would seek to reduce the Low Income Home Energy Heating Assistance Program from the current funding of $5.1 billion to $2.6 billion, the Associated Press said, citing a source familiar with the budget discussions. Obama is expected to release his overall budget proposal on Monday. It would cover the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1.

Advocates for the poor consider the program a lifeline to struggling homeowners in the winter. So far this season, Massachusetts has received $173 million; the poorest households in the state would receive $1,050 to help pay their heating bills. About 200,000 Bay State households qualified for the aid last year.



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Fuck the poor, let them freeze...... Der leader no longer has any use for them. Tell the poor fuckers to move somewhere warm.
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"Representative Edward Markey, Democrat of Malden, called on the House Appropriations Committee to resist paring the program.

"Cutting funding for LIHEAP so dramatically would have a devastating impact on millions of American families already suffering from the economic downturn," he said in a letter today.


Markey has been battling House Republicans who are considering immediate cuts to the program this winter, as part of their effort to slice $100 billion from President Obama's spending requests.

"It takes a frigid heart for Republicans to continue to defend tax breaks for oil and gas companies, while putting heating fuel assistance for America’s neediest on the chopping block," Markey said."
 
christiefan915 said:
"Representative Edward Markey, Democrat of Malden, called on the House Appropriations Committee to resist paring the program.

"Cutting funding for LIHEAP so dramatically would have a devastating impact on millions of American families already suffering from the economic downturn," he said in a letter today.


Markey has been battling House Republicans who are considering immediate cuts to the program this winter, as part of their effort to slice $100 billion from President Obama's spending requests.

"It takes a frigid heart for Republicans to continue to defend tax breaks for oil and gas companies, while putting heating fuel assistance for America’s neediest on the chopping block," Markey said."
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When Republicans do it, it's cool...
 
I wish Ted Kennedy were still here...he'd take Obama apart on the Senate floor.

Thank God there are still Kennedys in the country...


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christiefan915 said:
I've always commended Joe Kennedy for his efforts. Yet righties have called him a traitor and in bed with a dictator.
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I guess the right's 'Obama is a far left socialist' argument is dead...

This country desperately misses Kennedy liberalism. I will be posting an article I read a while back on RFK.


If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
President John F. Kennedy
 
Look at all the liberals who are stunned der leader is cutting the oil for the fucking poor.
As for Kennedy, the only one I ever liked is a dead one.
 
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