Bush will veto more funds for heating oil (McCafferty files now). Call your

congresscritters NOW please.
He was talking about this lack of funding for the poor in relation to $$ Bush wants for the war.
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Sat Oct-20-07 04:06 PM
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Bush will veto more funds for heating oil--time to busy buzy folks (PLEASE):


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.

He wouldn't want to take money out of their pockets, now would he?

So now heating oil help for the poor is off limits, too, as Bush spends MY TAX DOLLARS on endless war and subsidies to the oil companies?

I should be numb by now, but I am pissed off. Will it make a difference? Not unless it starts to cost these GOP creeps who back this madman.

I do believe you're right in how damn important it is, I think I'll help you.

Repugs are scum.

body part) in the cookie jar, they sure want understanding and mercy for themselves.

at any given time. The ones about hunger, cold, etc. always seem to go the thread graveyard prematurely.

Aren't some of them Republicans?

Are THEY writing to Bush? They should be!

I think, however they will get stiff upper lips and just manage to survive, then vote Republican like the good "value voters" they are.