tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19923729.post2022861595389631612..comments2023-09-05T08:34:20.322-04:00Comments on susan the bruce: Austerity Means FreezingUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19923729.post-62685621178401488812012-02-07T22:41:47.153-05:002012-02-07T22:41:47.153-05:00Did you see the slide show?
Here it is: http://ww...Did you see the slide show?<br /><br />Here it is: http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2012/02/04/us/LAND.html?ref=us<br /><br />It's accompanied by descriptions.<br /><br />"One of Hometown Energy’s customers, Robert Hartford, called pleading for heating oil for himself and his disabled wife to keep warm. Could Ike help out? Again? But the Hartfords already owed him more than $700 for two earlier deliveries and his answer was no even though he agonized over the decision. 'You get off the phone thinking, "Are these people going to be found frozen?"' Mr. Libby said."<br /><br />This is an important issue to me. One of the arguments I'm developing is a counter to the Republicans' charge that Democrats and the Obama administration practice class warfare. My counter-argument is that class warfare is a fact of politics, and Democrats didn't create it. As a matter of fact, I argue, Republicans do it too.<br /><br />I cite program cuts and how the unaffordability of health care makes it inaccessible, and the inaccessibility makes it deadly. I also want to argue that program cuts are deadly to financially marginal households. The quote above illustrates how.Stephen D. Clarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02407059527548057453noreply@blogger.com