This winter has been especially austere. As part of the drive to cut spending, the Obama administration and Congress have trimmed the energy-assistance program that helps the poor — 65,000 households in Maine alone — to pay their heating bills. Eligibility is harder now, and the average amount given here is $483, down from $804 last year, all at a time when the price of oil has risen more than 40 cents in a year, to $3.71 a gallon.
With this in mind shall we ask if this administration is "worried about the very poor"? Apparently if you're poor and in need of heating assistance so you don't freeze to death, you're out of luck as far as the Feds are concerned. The administration does know that about 1/2 the country is in the "cold zone" right?
Meanwhile we get to see "Joe" from Citgo with his annual reminder of how much heating oil the people of Venezuela are sending to poor Americans, while other oil companies are of the opinion that they can freeze to death.
I guess the real question is does anyone on the federal level really care about the poor?
