and she'll STILL prolly vote RAT...
Posted on 12/11/2011 9:30:24 AM PST by Nachum
WASHINGTON (AP) - Mary Power is 92 and worried about surviving another frigid New England winter because deep cuts in federal home heating assistance benefits mean she probably can't afford enough heating oil to stay warm.
She lives in a drafty trailer in Boston's West Roxbury neighborhood and gets by on $11,148 a year in pension and Social Security benefits. Her heating aid help this year will drop from $1,035 to $685. With rising heating oil prices, it probably will cost her more than $3,000 for enough oil to keep warm unless she turns her thermostat down to 60 degrees, as she plans.
"I will just have to crawl into bed with the covers over me and stay there," said Power, a widow who worked as a cashier and waitress until she was 80. "I will do what I have to do."
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Useless eater.
Well, maybe if people start to feel the high cost of energy, they’ll put pressure on the worthless politicians who are keeping the prices artificially high with their leftist, anti-productive policies.
Well, maybe if people start to feel the high cost of energy, they’ll put pressure on the worthless politicians who are keeping the prices artificially high with their leftist, anti-productive policies.
Why not just go into a senior apartment. Hate basic stupidity.
My sister did the same, trying to raise a child (after my POS bil left her) while putting herself through school to support herself and my one nephew.
She is now an RN. Yes, she had to “borrow” money from me to get a bit of oil for heat and hot water, but she made it through.
Where are these elders family to help out? I sure as heck didn’t have enough money to just give, but I did.
Where are their families, or neighbors to help them out?
My sister did the same, trying to raise a child (after my POS bil left her) while putting herself through school to support herself and my one nephew.
She is now an RN. Yes, she had to “borrow” money from me to get a bit of oil for heat and hot water, but she made it through.
Where are these elders family to help out? I sure as heck didn’t have enough money to just give, but I did.
Where are their families, or neighbors to help them out?
My sister did the same, trying to raise a child (after my POS bil left her) while putting herself through school to support herself and my one nephew.
She is now an RN. Yes, she had to “borrow” money from me to get a bit of oil for heat and hot water, but she made it through.
Where are these elders family to help out? I sure as heck didn’t have enough money to just give, but I did.
Where are their families, or neighbors to help them out?
Why not just go into a senior apartment.
...in FL.
They feds needed to send the money to Solyndra. They had a lot of hope and change for the Solyndra thing. It just didn’t work out.
Because the corrupt elite in Boston would rather give senior apartments to illegal aliens than US citizens.
Just ask BHO. He has his aunt Zeituni stashed in one.
and she'll STILL prolly vote RAT...
Is that fuzzy math again? No, she's not getting by on $11k/yr with just a pension and SS. Besides her heating aid perk, how much do all her other government freebies add up to? How about she cover those drafty windows and doors to keep the cold out? If things are so bad, where's her family or are they also complaining about the mean ol' government cutting their beanies? Sorry, lady, but there are taxpayers out here who aren't on the dole who are bringing in the same amount per person.
Mary Power is 92... lives in a drafty trailer in Boston's West Roxbury neighborhood and gets by on $11,148 a year in pension and Social Security benefits. Her heating aid help this year will drop from $1,035 to $685. With rising heating oil prices, it probably will cost her more than $3,000 for enough oil to keep warm unless she turns her thermostat down to 60 degrees, as she plans. "I will just have to crawl into bed with the covers over me and stay there," said Power, a widow who worked as a cashier and waitress until she was 80. "I will do what I have to do.""Next up: how this is all the fault of the Republican Party."
I am reading this correctly that 25% of her annual income goes for home heating? That seems a tad high.
Imagine how warm she will be when she’s heating her home with solar panels and windmills.
I read it as combined but if it's $12k pension + SS + heating + whatever other perks, then she doing way better than this taxpayer. She could have at least sent us a thank you card instead of whining.
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But this is in Boston, land of the Kennedys who all now work for Communist dictator Hugo Chavez, giving out his oil for free to our country’s poor. How can this be??? Or maybe he’s paying them 6 figure salaries for doing something else now?
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