Only Here
by ChrisFebruary 23rd, 2006 11:30 pm
Howard has a nice take on recent questions raised by two congressional Republicans with regards to Citgo’s program to provide heating oil to low income individuals in several US cities, including Philadelphia. He writes:
Only in our great land could you reasonably push the notion that it’s wrong to help the poor. And I do mean only here.
Stop and think about it for just a second. When you first heard that Hugo Chavez was providing discounted heating oil to low income Americans, was there ever any question in your mind that some Republican politician or pundit would object? It’s really ugly what passes for normal on a day to day basis.
February 26th, 2006 at 6:15 pm
What scares me more than politicians opportunistically attacking this situation is the true believer libertarians who seem to fear that by offering vital help to the poor, the whole universal balance (vis-a-vis natural selection) is going to be thrown out of whack. Which if you ask me, wouldn’t be such a bad thing.