Trump administration finds ridiculous excuse to cut help on nearly three million poor who can't pay electricity bills
Trump
administration continues its mission to wipe out the US middle class
and the poor. After hiring some top banksters to run the economy,
returning to the path of full-mode deregulation of Wall Street,
preparing more tax-cuts for the super-rich that will deteriorate
further the already bad condition of the social state, it's time to
attack the poor who can't pay electricity.
Dr.
Richard Wolff explains:
Last
summer, 900,000 homes in Texas went dark because of unpaid bills.
That's triple the number ten years ago in the state of Texas. Number
two, California, 714,000 homes, the most on record for the state of
California. Across the US as a whole, millions of people are being
disconnected from electricity.
The
Trump administration released its 2018 budget. And in that budget
they got rid of the LIHEAP (Low Income Home Energy Assistance
Program). It's a program of the federal government that helps poor
people, if they qualify, to pay at least part of their electricity
bills.
Last
year, 2.9 million households turned and got some help. So, why is it
being canceled by the Trump administration? According to Mick
Mulvaney, Director of the US Office of Management and Budget, he
cited the figure of eleven thousand people who didn't qualify, but
who got help. 2.9 million people disconnected and needed help. Eleven
thousand, which is 0.0001 percent of this cheated in some way,
weren't qualify, or even dead in some cases. To use a tiny fraction
of corruption to cancel out what millions of people need, there is no
justification for that.
So,
while on the one hand, the Trump administration puts inside the
government the most corrupted features of the parasitic capitalism
who almost ruined the economy in 2008 and have been saved with
billions of taxpayers money, it finds this cheap and ridiculous
excuse to cut help on nearly 3 million poor citizens.
Couldn't
sound more neoliberal. It comes straight from the neoliberal
narratives and propaganda by the mainstream apparatus. The fact that
a small fraction probably "cheated" to get some subsidy is
being used to paint as corrupted millions of poor who indeed need and
should take this additional help from the government budget.
The
'anti-establishment' Donald is doing everything in his power to
maintain neoliberal pro-establishment status inside the US. He is
just continuing the destructive neoliberal policies, just as has been
planned by the US plutocracy with either Hillary Clinton or him.
What
is left to see, is whether he will continue the war-for-profit policy
of the previous US presidents-faithful puppets of the establishment.
Indications so far leave little room for someone to believe that,
under Donald Trump, this policy will change.
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