Posted on 12/12/2012 3:33:06 PM PST by mdittmar
Poor and elderly Americans who rely on aid from the federal government to heat their homes stand to get less help this year if Congress and the White House fail to figure out a way to avoid the combination of tax increases and automatic spending cuts known as the fiscal cliff.
If that happens, there'll be an automatic 10 percent reduction in funds from the federal Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program. But the plight of those in the estimated 6.9 million households who rely on the money to keep warm hardly appears to be a priority for lawmakers in Washington, said Faye MacDonald, 70, a Bangor retiree who relies on the federal program to heat her small home.
"I feel like a little drop of water in a big pond that they don't care about," she said.
Congress is in no mood to approve emergency spending for heating aid as in past years, said Mark Wolfe of the National Energy Assistance Directors' Association. Already, states have received less money than initially projected because of the pending fiscal cliff.
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Unfortunate, but imagine what it will be like when our dollars are worthless and can’t buy services or goods?
It can and it will be worse if we don’t fix our democrat and rino vandalized economy and budget hole.
State funds will make up the difference as needed.
States typically add extra.
http://liheap.ncat.org/news/nov12/vt.htm
“November 15 — The Vermont Emergency board last month unanimously approved $8.8 million in state funds to supplement the Vermont LIHEAP this winter.
It’s the second year in a row the state has added money to LIHEAP and the amount is a 44 percent increase from the $6.1 million the state provided last year. It comes out of funds the legislature allocated to cover reductions in the federal budget. The board’s action stemmed from a request by Gov. Peter Shumlin earlier in October...”
When I was 18, I left home and moved into a small house with two other girls. We were all working minimum wage jobs and come winter, couldn’t afford the oil for the oil heater. Guess what. We did without. One of the coldest winters in 100 years and all we had was a fireplace but we couldn’t afford wood by the end of Feb. So we used our blankets and sucked it up.
I have been cold and I have been hungry. I see few today who have endured that especially when I am standing in line watching as Big Mama slides a ‘Peach Card’ food stamp card through the slot before she puts in her pin number while she pulls up her pants in preparation of wheeling her overflowing cart out to her two or three year old car while her passel of snot nosed brats is running through the store screaming and tearing up the place.
But, I digress...
My give a damm meter broke on Nov 6th when the head DUmmie barry got reelected. Take a flying leap at a rolling donut and drop off the bridge.
Did I ever mention that I hate democrats and idiots like this woman? Well, I've said it in public now, so this money whore can go find a fence post and jump on the top.
I bet that home heating fuel is more than 10% cheaper this year, too.
Yep. I live south of ‘The People’s Republik of Madistan.’ Can’t swing a dead cat around here without hitting a young woman in a burka - usually a blue-eyed blonde Norski who has been assimilated into the Cult of Evil...with kids in tow...
Maddening, isn’t it?
We’re so screwed. I mean, seriously. We are.
Good point.
Where is good ol hugo?
Where is her family?
Where are her friends?
Just the first wave of sob stories to come.
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