Bush will veto more funds for heating oil--time to busy buzy folks (PLEASE):

[rodeodance]

First it is kids health insurance. and now this. Get busy folks. we got work to do.



Contact your Congress people NOW---DEMS and REpugs! Senators AND Legislators.

Contact at:
http://www.visi.com/juan/congress /

Forum Name General Discussion
Topic subject Bush seeks cut in LIHEAP, threatens veto (dead elderly this winter)
Topic URL http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...
2092695, Bush seeks cut in LIHEAP, threatens veto (dead elderly this winter)
Posted by usregimechange on Fri Oct-19-07 09:33 PM

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - About 30 million low-income American households who will need help paying heating bills this winter from a U.S. government program will be left in the cold because of a lack of funding for the program.

The poor, already digging deep to pay for expensive gasoline, also will face much higher heating fuel costs, especially if oil prices stay near record levels.

Consumer groups and state energy officials have sounded the alarm, saying a federal program to help poor families pay heating bills will have nowhere near the money needed to cover those expected to seek assistance...

Still, the administration did not back away from its threat to veto legislation to boost funding for LIHEAP to levels it has called too high.

LIHEAP has an interim annual budget of $2.16 billion, but the White House wants to cut the program to $1.78 billion for the 2008 spending year that began
on October 1.

The House of Representatives has passed legislation to boost the program to $2.66 billion, while a Senate committee has cleared a bill keeping LIHEAP at its current $2.16 billion budget.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071019/pl_nm/poor_usa_wint...

Tell congress to pass/override or ask FEMA for body bags.

[rodeodance]

1. k

[rodeodance]

2. k

[rodeodance]

3. can this have some RECS so all can do their job please?

[sam sarrha]

5. F'n wet brain alcoholic drug addict narcissistic psychopath..

:kick:

[rodeodance]

9. LOL

[MasonJar]

4. What is wrong with this evil bastard, who is spending 15 billion a

month in Iraq to kill innocent people, and yet cannot help the poor and ill in our own country?

[sam sarrha]

10. Google: '14 points of Fascism' ..one is that Fascists believe poverty is a VICE, that if you are

medically indigent you deserve what you got..

[Raven]

6. He's trying to kill us. n/t

[gateley]

7. K&R - this is stupefying - how could he POSSIBLY justify this? nt

[rodeodance]

8. fiscal somthing he will claim.

[gateley]

25. Yeah, of course. nt

[rodeodance]

11. Thanks for the RECS----be sure to put a call in or WRITE---and pass this on.

[rodeodance]

12. k

[NYC]

13. Related:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3036508

[izquierdista]

14. Always a workaround

For those who have a fireplace or woodstove, the Government Printing Office can be a great source of assistance with the heating bills. As can the IRS and Republican campaign offices. If you know someone who is in this category, sign them up for every free government publication, not just the head of the household, but ALL members of the family. Soon the postman will be delivering 10 to 20 pounds of high quality fuel every day (excluding Sundays and Holidays).

[Zenlitened]

21. LOL!

:rofl:

[Rosa Luxemburg]

15. 1 week in Iraq would pay for......

healthcare for 800,000 children
how many elederly people would benefit?

[BeHereNow]

16. Recommended.

Pure evil, these bastards.
BHN

[lpbk2713]

17. It's not enough to deny medical care to kids who really need it.

But he wants them to shiver in a cold house too.

Compassionate Conservative my ass.

[sutz12]

18. I guess LIHEAP sounds tll much like LIHOP

They probably think that people will be reminded of who let 9/11 happen on their watch every time they by heating oil.

Plus, this will be bound to reduce the number of kids on the SCHIP program.

Just another chance for Chavez to look like a hero by selling cheap heating oil to Americans. :shrug:

[kelliebrat]

19. K & R

Outfuckingrageous...this has GOT TO STOP. :kick:

[Cha]

20. Still on their killing spree only this time

it's in the USA.. Killing in Iraq isn't nearly enough for the bushits' bloodlust..now they want to cut off vital heating fuel for those who cannot afford the exorbitant cost of their O-I-L.

Health Care for Children, Heating Fuel for the Elderly..they'll be looking for the Next Big Thing so they can save more money on it and send our tax $$$$$$$$$$$$ to Iraq and Blow Up their Children and our Soldiers. And Iraq is Broken so on to Iran and see how they like bushit Domination.

[Vinca]

22. This is a serious, serious situation in the northeast and when it turns

really cold it will not just be poor people struggling to pay heating oil bills. That compounds the problem since middle income people are usually generous in giving to local heat subsidy programs. In George Bush's America poverty trickles up.

[rodeodance]

24. and the Midwest---here in Wisconsin

[Mojorabbit]

23. It is almost as if

he wants every republican to lose their seats in the next election. You know he is being advised which makes it doubly weird.

[rodeodance]

26. Repugs have to assume accountability for sticking to him!---tell them that when you write to them

[rodeodance]

27. k

[rodeodance]

28. k

[rox63]

29. F*ck, my mom gets heating assistance

I guess they want my blind, elderly mother to freeze to death. :scared: (not that I'd ever let that happen)

What a bunch of sick, sociopathic bastards. :grr:

[madrchsod]

30. hell i had the gas company tell us to apply for assistance.

there are tens of thousand of users that are a month or more behind on their gas bills in northern il. there will be more this year...

[Vinca]

36. We got a flyer from the local bank the other day. It seems they've

joined forces with a local heating oil company and are offering home equity loans to pay for oil deliveries. What a country. If you're lucky enough to have a home in the first place, you'll lose it trying to provide heat and medical coverage.

[Pastiche423]

31. K&R

If enough people freeze to death this winter in the great U S of A, can we impeach then?

[Lochloosa]

32. Just for you rodeodance

[Amonester]

33. K&R

:scared:

[Digit]

34. The economy is in the crapper, people are losing their jobs....

wages are stagnant, food prices are rising rapidly as well as gasoline prices...

* is trying to eliminate the people who are most vulnerable.
Starting with the sick, the elderly, the unemployed......

How can this happen in America?

[bridgit]

35. on his way out the back door, the world is going to see what a *real* asshole really looks like...