One principle in modern American lawmaking states that incredibly bad ideas will pass Congress or a state legislature unanimously. But there's a related principle that states that strikingly good ideas inexplicably won't pass at all, even if you can't possibly imagine anyone opposing it.
Yesterday, the Republicans in the Senate blocked an important heating aid bill - despite the Democrats being the Senate's majority party. The bill would have expanded federal aid to the poor for heating and air bills.
Who could possibly be against it? And on what grounds? The GOPoo can't possibly argue that they're just trying to save money, because they've supported the Iraq War blank check that's cost hundreds of billions. So what's the excuse?
The public pays taxes, and all they're getting in return is a failed war - and no heat?
I also don't buy any doctrinaire arguments by conservatives about how assisting the poor is beyond the government's scope. Conservatives consider "morals, morals, morals!" to be within the government's purview, so why not economic assistance programs like this?
So another bill has been killed off by the Republicans who aren't even the winning party anymore.
(Source: http://www.kypost.com/news/national/story.aspx?content_id=d0c37b7c-07f6-45fd-8f6d-964ed56d0a87)
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Republicans block heating aid bill
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Even Democrats seem to hate the poor that are suffering majority because of the economy they themselves are causing to fail.
ReplyDeleteOne of the reasons my grandmother had to sell her house, that she had been living in for the past 30-40 years, is because she could no longer afford the heating and air conditioning bills (That went up partially because of the climate change everyone is denying). Which, I might add, resulted in her having a heat stroke.
But hey, it doesn't matter that her partner of 25 years died of cancer, that she's retired and living by herself when she's in her mid 70's. She's poor! Therefore she deserved to loose her house! At least, that's what our wonderful government seems to think.
Bastards.