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H/T to Mike Caulfield on John Sununu's LIHEAP scam

by: Bill Duncan

Thu Aug 21, 2008 at 09:35:39 AM EDT


(Exhibit A on the utility of a community blog. - promoted by Dean Barker)

A couple of weeks ago I read Mike Caulfield's great post "A Blatant Lie on Heating Assistance from Sununu" ( http://www.bluehampshire.com/s... ).  I thought he had done important work in untangling this for us and that there must be a way to make his point more widely understood. So I wrote a letter to the editor of the Portsmouth Herald summarizing his points.  

And here's what came out today: http://www.seacoastonline.com/... .  The first letter is John Sununun selling his LIHEAP scam.  Then there's mine, summarizing Mike's point but with the confidence that it's well grounded.

Just thought BHers should know how leveraged your work is.

Bill Duncan :: H/T to Mike Caulfield on John Sununu's LIHEAP scam
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The only thing I'd like to add is that (0.00 / 0)
Republican Administrations have long had the habit of simply not spending appropriated funds.  When you add that to the strategy of not requesting funds necessry for on-going programs or necessary capital improvements, legislators insert funds for programs that they may or may not actually want spent.  We end up with much ado about not very much.

It's easy for Sununu to vote for programs that he's fairly certain the Administration is not going to spend anyway.  It shouldn't be necessary for him to ask that funds be released.  Moreover, given the current crew, there's no reason to expect that it will do any good.
But, he can say he tried.
What he and Bush have done is waste a lot of people's time and caused them undue aggravation.

Which is not to say I even approve of LIHEAP.  If wage rates and pensions were sufficient we wouldn't need these supplements to begin with.



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