Tax breaks for the rich, cut heating assistance to the poor

[DainBramaged]

I just can't fucking stand it anymore.

http://www.nationaljournal.com/whitehouse/exclusive-obama-to-cut-energy-assistance-for-the-poor-20110209

[liberal N proud]

1. It is the republican way

[DainBramaged]

2. It's the President's budget.....

Every time I think he's going to do the right thing, he disappoints me.

[emilyg]

16. +100

[indepat]

20. Only the right way or the left way is available and the proof is always in the pudding

:P

[malaise]

3. It's beyond sickening

but only the people will change this mess.

[DainBramaged]

4. This will affect friends a couple of towns over

Two kids, she works part time at the mall, he hasn't had a job in construction for almost two years. They get heat and electricity assistance, I am positive they will get screwed.

I can only give out so much to help every month before I am affected.

[HereSince1628]

6. Wrong...this one depends on green house gases...

time to quash all the EPA regs, flatten those mountaintops and burn all that coal.

If we do that we can be great again...Like we were under Uncle Ronnie!

[HereSince1628]

5. You just don't understand 3 dimensional chess...

Wasn't that the phrase used to tamp down the leftie rabble?

[ck4829]

7. Oh come on, it's all about the trickle down, why don't you understand that?

If they don't freeze to death, then in several years once the wealthy have enough money, then they might trickle the money down. What's the problem with that?

:sarcasm:

[DainBramaged]

19. This isn't the man I voted for...........

How many of us will turn our backs in 2012 or write in anyone else becuse of his refuasl to lead from the Left.

[Brickbat]

8. Shameful and embarrassing.

[ProSense]

9. Well, the numbers are confusing

<...>

The Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, or LIHEAP, would see funding drop by about $3 billion from an authorized 2009 total of $5.1 billion. 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, three officials told National Journal.

In 2010, Obama signed into law an omnibus budget resolution that released a total of about $5 billion in LIHEAP grants for 2011. Pointing to the increasing number of Americans who made use of the grants last year, advocates say that LIHEAP is already underfunded. The American Gas Association predicts that 3 million Americans eligible for the program won't be able to receive it unless LIHEAP funding stays at its current level.

How many people, if any, might actually lose the assistance is difficult to determine. Officials were quick to point out that LIHEAP spending has grown significantly over the past several years as the government tried to keep up with rising gas prices. In 2008, the government spent $2.8 billion on LIHEAP. In 2009, thanks to the Recovery Act, better known as the stimulus bill, the figure jumped to $8.1 billion. So the cut from that high level restores LIHEAP to something close to where it was before Obama took office. Other circumstances, such as the weather and fuel prices, could affect the distribution of benefits.

<...>

LIHEAP was funded at $2.8 billion in 2008. In 2009, it was funded at $5.1 billion, climbing to $8.1 billion with the Stimulus. That's a $2.3 billion increase over 2008 (or $5.3 billion with the Stimulus). In 2011, it was $5 billion.

I'll wait to see what's actually in the budget.

[Newest Reality]

10. Laed Wen ...

sort of a New Deal, backwards.

Watching the political sun go down,
An economic twilight spreads thick.
How darker, deeper is the ominous night
when you are no longer assured that the dawn will ever come.

This night, the people dream the dreams they are told to.
Asleep, they toss restlessly in the Empire's growing shadow.
Reality is for the wakeful and the waking,
They cannot and will not arise without a light to rouse them.

[Exultant Democracy]

11. Thats our Obama. The worst part is the alternative in 2012 will be so bad that ill prob vote for him

[Raksha]

17. Personally, I think it's one more way of rigging elections.

The two parties probably plan it that way. In an election year, state or district where no Republican can possibly win, the Repukes run a certifiable nutcase and Dems run a DINO who campaigns on "bipartisanship" and who looks good by contrast.

That way the banksters and corporations ALWAYS win and the American people lose. Which is the whole point, of course. It's hard to take our electoral process seriously any more when it's all a big freakin' sideshow.

[PBS Poll-435]

12. Isn't the National Journal the source that claimed (now) President Obama

Was the most liberal member of the Senate?



And not in a good way...

[bvar22]

13. Welcome to The New American Century !!!

The Project for a New American Century is a 30 year plan to return to a New and Improved Gilded Age 2.0.
It has been brought to you by the Republican party working in common cause with their allies, the Centrist "Democrats".
The Project is nearing completion, and they are proud to announce that it has been 98% successful in destroying the American Working Class, formerly protected by the now defunct Old Democratic party of FDR.
All that is left is the destruction of Social Security and Medicare, and that is pretty much a Done Deal already.

If YOU are a Top One Percenter,
Time to PARTY!!!
:party:


"There are forces within the Democratic Party who want us to sound like kinder, gentler Republicans."---Paul Wellstone


"By their works, you will know them."

[BlueCheese]

14. I'm surprised how angry I am.

Every proposed cut is going to look horrible juxtaposed with the tax deal debacle.

[Selatius]

15. In Soviet Russia, home heats you! In Corporatist America, rich eat you! nt

[StarsInHerHair]

18. well look at Mubarak, look at Hussein, look at Mugabe and others, the rich

pricks at the top, the leaders of poor nations tend to be wealthy. Follow the aid money.