It snuck by last Thursday, the REpubs lined up to prevent home heating assisstance for low-income, disabled and poor. With a season of record high heating costs expected, the squeeze is on....read the whole story here:
http://bobgeiger.blogspot.com/2005/10/another-cruel-vote-by-senate.html
I never heard anything about this on the news either. I'm getting my LTE ready and I'm sending messages to the news asking why this has not been noticed. These guys make me sick. Up until a couple years ago I was one of the people who really needed this stuff, I'm a single mom with a son starting college, luckily my education finally got me good paying job...at least until they deconstruct the ESA then I'll be in the dumps again. I feel so bad knowing how hard it is to make ends meet and having to tell my son not to let anyone know how much we struggled or the govt may take him away from me. Greatest country in the world? What a farce.