Trump Wants to Stop Those Cheating Grannies

He happens to know they're lying about needing help keeping their homes warm in the winter, and they're defrauding the government out of a lot of money. Believe me, it's terrible, just terrible, what those rotten chiselers get away with. What's worse is that Congress will likely try to stop him from Making America Great Again by ending this dreadful waste. SAD!


'Congress is cool to Trump's proposal to end heating aid'

"The summer air is sizzling as the Fourth of July approaches, yet 86-year-old Richard Perkins already worries about how he's going to stay warm this winter.

"President Donald Trump has proposed eliminating heating aid for low-income Americans, claiming it's no longer necessary and rife with fraud. People needn't worry about being left in the cold, he says, because utilities cannot cut off customers in the dead of winter.

"But he is wrong on all counts.

"The heating program provides a critical lifeline for people like Perkins, and officials close to the program don't see any widespread fraud. Guidelines for winter shutoffs by utilities vary from state to state and don't apply to heating oil, a key energy source in the brittle New England winter.

"'It's beyond my thinking that anyone could be that cruel,' said Perkins, a retired restaurateur who relies on the program to keep warm in Ogunquit, Maine.

"The proposal to kill the program, which has distributed $3.4 billion to about 6 million households this fiscal year, will face strong opposition in Congress."​

 

$3.4 billion? Are you kidding me? That kind of money would fund fully 25% of a new aircraft carrier. Instead it's going to deadbeat poor people, and elderly folks who are already rolling in Social Security benefits and are no doubt using the heating fund money to pay for their winters in Florida.

 

Well if they die during a frigid winter, we really don't have to worry about it until spring rolls around. The Trump voters can vote in early November, quickly die from the cold, and then use their ice cold homes as alternative morgues. This works out for everyone....or almost everyone.

 

Il Douche's cunning plan to eliminate waste and fraud by ending the LIHEAP programme won't just affect poor people in winter.

'Trump proposes eliminating program that lets poor people cool their homes during heat waves'

"If LIHEAP were to be eliminated, some warm-weather states, including Texas, may not have any program at all to help low-income people cool their homes. Last year, Texas ended a program called Lite-Up Texas, that helped low-income families pay electric bills.

"Some states could use ratepayer funds, which come from surcharges on regulated energy utilities to fund programs that provide discounts on low-income people’s utility bills. But the problem is that many warm-weather states, such as Arkansas and Mississippi won’t raise rates. These states are often relying on cooling centers, such as community centers, churches, and libraries to keep people safe, which serves as a Band-Aid solution to a problem that could be easily fixed through more funding to LIHEAP.

"'Right now there are programs in warm-weather states,' [Mark Wolfe, head of the National Energy Assistance Director’s Association] said. 'They’re not well-funded, but there are programs that help among the neediest in those states. If Trump was successful in eliminating money for LIHEAP, people would die because there would be absolutely no money to help them.'"

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When you have a national government that refuses to make provision for the basic health and safety of even its most vulnerable citizens then the only recourse is for communities to step up and figure out how to fill the gap. This was pointed out in the original post.

Local government, non-profit groups, and volunteer organizations come to mind, also business participation, either voluntary or mandated. The additional benefit here is a more involved community and more local and regional self-sufficiency. There will of course be places where for ideological or other reasons this doesn't work. In those cases, people will probably die. But the ones remaining will console themselves with religion and the thought of all the time and money they've saved.

 

That's part of the republican agenda, to reign in spending and reduce taxes, no matter the consequences.

It's that last part that is so frustrating, that republicans either don't see the consequences, don't want to know the consequences or don't care about the consequences. It's a mixture of all three really, and that's the frustrating part...how do you explain the consequences to a party and it's base when that party and it's base doesn't want to know and refuses to know them?

The ability of republicans to remain ignorant no matter what they are forced to learn is astounding. It literally takes their own lives being obviously cut short or otherwise harmed before they have that epiphany that their beliefs are fucking stupid.

An example:

republican, prior to epiphany: "I fully support that new pipeline they are talkin' about, and those damn liberals just don't care about local jobs!"

same republican, after being told the pipeline is being routed through their property: "What?"

same republican, after losing court battle to keep pipeline off their property: "This ain't right."

same republican, after pipeline leaks on their land, poisoning their water supply: "My family has had this land for generations, and now I can't even use the water on it. My crops are withered, my livestock is dead and my family is ill."

republican, (sort of) having an epiphany: "I was wrong to support that pipeline. I just didn't know it would affect me like it did."