Keeping the heat on
Fred Clark expands on previous ponderings about the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program. He gives reasons why every political segment in Washington should be for full funding of LIHEAP. Among those points is this one:
… Corporate capitalists of the Bush/Cheney/Joe Barton school should support LIHEAP because all that money it funnels to poor families is really funneled through those families on its way to its actual destination: Energy companies. …(source)
Just in case the idea of keeping poor people from freezing wasn’t enough of a reason.
