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Senate OKs $1B to Help Poor Afford Energy
Associated Press ^ | 08 March, 2006 | JIM ABRAMS, Associated Press

Posted on 03/08/2006 10:21:17 AM PST by newgeezer

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To: newgeezer
ROFLMAO! Didn't someone break the news to the dolt Senators winter is nearly over?? Yeah, right. They can give away $1 billion for unnecessary pork barrel spending but turn right around and whine we can't afford tax cuts. Very funny.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

41 posted on 03/08/2006 12:00:33 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: newgeezer

Not Yours To Give


42 posted on 03/08/2006 12:10:35 PM PST by Sir Gawain
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To: Indy Pendance
Just end it already! 100% taxes for all.

lol - Trouble is, they won't end it at 100%. It will go to 110% -- then 120% ---

43 posted on 03/08/2006 12:14:09 PM PST by LurkedLongEnough
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To: Izzy Dunne

I live in Edmonton AB, and we have had a very mild winter. This global warming must be great for the poor with regard to their energy costs, so why are we passing this kind of legislation??


44 posted on 03/08/2006 12:15:27 PM PST by proud_yank (Liberalism - The 'Culture of Ignorance'.)
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To: LurkedLongEnough

Just imagine if that happened. The work force would dry up.


45 posted on 03/08/2006 12:16:48 PM PST by Indy Pendance
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To: rolling_stone
FUEL FOR THE POOR OF THE CITY


WOOD FOR THE POOR OF GEORGETOWN


Bravo Mr. Polk!!!!

46 posted on 03/08/2006 12:17:06 PM PST by michigander (The Constitution only guarantees the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.)
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To: rolling_stone
Darn I missed reading about this in the Constitution..what did all those early settlers do to keep warm before the Feds stepped in to pay the bills?

Actually, in some ways it is the government's (or perhaps governments') fault. Strict burning laws, more regulations than you can shake a stick from an endangered tree at, not allowing people to have fires in their own yards, etc and so on.

Back in settler days you could do a lot more to keep warm. Try that now and see how fast the fire marshall, code enforcers, etc come a knocking on your door :)

47 posted on 03/08/2006 12:25:50 PM PST by ChessMan
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To: newgeezer
Whenever (ultra-liberal) Philly mayor John Street talks about the LIHEAP program, he calls it LIHOP.
48 posted on 03/08/2006 12:33:53 PM PST by Physicist
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To: newgeezer

This is a joke, right?


49 posted on 03/08/2006 12:34:55 PM PST by Osage Orange (Molon Labe)
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To: Tzimisce

Snowe and the other Democrats are actually socialists, and the Republicans are fake capitalists. This is more of the same: unconstitutional redistribution of private property (income, assets) via taxation. Money is taken from me and you to give it to other people for their heating bills, housing, retirement, medical care, food, and probably for beer, cigarettes, and illegal drugs too. Where in the Constitution is this theft of property permitted?


50 posted on 03/08/2006 12:34:57 PM PST by pleikumud
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To: newgeezer
"Sen. Olympia Snowe, D-Maine"

Your link does not show that mistake!!!

51 posted on 03/08/2006 12:35:08 PM PST by malia
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To: newgeezer
I don't want anyone to freeze, but this program bugs me. It is another classic program that makes people dependent on the government. Once people get accustomed to this $$ there is little incentive to take care of themselves. Next, they will have a program for AC in the South.

A lot of northern states have laws that don't allow the power companies to cut off power during the winter. Some deadbeats don't pay their power bills at all during the winter, then in the Spring they have $2000 bills to pay!
52 posted on 03/08/2006 12:44:49 PM PST by GeorgefromGeorgia
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To: pleikumud
Snowe and the other Democrats are actually socialists, and the Republicans are fake capitalists.

Corporatists. They are both a bunch of thieves, the only difference is who they give your money to after they steal it.

53 posted on 03/08/2006 12:48:28 PM PST by CGTRWK
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To: newgeezer

It's nice to see how generous our elected officials are, with our money.


54 posted on 03/08/2006 1:02:34 PM PST by TheDon (The Democratic Party is the party of TREASON!)
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To: newgeezer
"I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents." -- James Madison, as he disapproved of an attempt to appropriate $15,000 for French refugees. 4 Annals of Congress 179 (1794).

55 posted on 03/08/2006 1:05:20 PM PST by Mark Felton ("Your faith should not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.")
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To: Dont_Tread_On_Me_888

Imagine this Tread....

Where does President Bush have a vote in the Senate?

Come on now, I know you ONLY want people to read your crap but get a grip here. President Bush isn't the problem, but the Senate GOP is.

But that's beyond you and doesn't benefit your quest of getting posts read by putting the some inane things in them.

And I am sure you will come back with "Let the adults talk here go back to your sports thread" or something simliarly useless, but the fact remains you only post to get people to read what you said as if it matters. And it doesn't.


56 posted on 03/08/2006 1:08:40 PM PST by MikefromOhio (22,952+ replies - wow I'm talkative.....)
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To: malia

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/08/AR2006030800295.html


57 posted on 03/08/2006 1:10:36 PM PST by newgeezer (a fundamentalist, regarding the Holy Bible AND the Constitution. Words mean things.)
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To: newgeezer

Anyone got the vote tally?


58 posted on 03/08/2006 1:15:46 PM PST by SDGOP
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To: newgeezer
Sen. Olympia Snowe, D-Maine

The truth comes out at last! Of course, the crAP pulled those 2 paragraphs from the linked story.

Maybe if gubmint weren't taking so damned much in taxes and redistributing the existing money into their own pockets, everybody could afford heat (and yes, it HAS been a mild winter, SnoweJob).

59 posted on 03/08/2006 1:16:09 PM PST by steveegg (Sen. Ted "Swimmer" Kennedy's vehicles have killed more people than V.P. Dick Cheney's guns)
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To: newgeezer

Nothing here to see but the incremental socialization of American fuel, energy, and utility services, now everyone just move along quietly and remain in your peaceful stupor........../sarc


60 posted on 03/08/2006 1:22:14 PM PST by OB1kNOb (America is the land of the free BECAUSE of the BRAVE !!)
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