Politics: Freezing the poor and GOD says screw the environment

"LEAVING THE POOR IN THE COLD: Prices for home heating oil are skyrocketing. Nevertheless, Bush's budget proposes cutting the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance program (http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/05/politics/05cuts.html?pagewanted=2) (LIHEAP), which helps people pay their heating bills, by 8.4 percent. At last year's funding levels, only one-sixth of low-income families who qualified for the program were able to receive assistance (http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/10306350.htm) . Last year's funding for LIHEAP was 23 percent lower than in 2001 (http://www.cbpp.org/11-19-04bud.htm) . For continually updated information on the Bush administration's budget, check out our 2006 Budget page (http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=307118) ."

So again, more HEAP funding is taken away while oil prices go up. It is impossible for any single parent household to afford heating for their children already, and it just keeps getting worse.

"ENVIRO -- EVANGELICALS GO GREEN: Times have changed since James G. Watt, the conservative interior secretary under President Reagan, argued that the imminent return of Jesus made environmentalism unnecessary. "God gave us these things to use. After the last tree is felled, Christ will come back," Watt told Congress in 1981. These days, the Washington Post reports, evidence "in polling and in public statements of church leaders" shows that a " growing number of evangelicals view stewardship of the environment as a responsibility mandated by God in the Bible (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1491-2005Feb5.html) ." Though evangelicals sometimes rely on different terms -- "creation care" instead of "environmentalism" -- and emphasize particular environmental ills -- for example, the health effects of mercury pollution on developing fetuses -- the basic progressive principles are the same. "The environment is a values issue," says the Rev. Ted Haggard, president of the 30 million-member National Association of Evangelicals, whose members will meet in March to develop a position on global warming."

If I was ignorant enough to believe in a GOD, I would at least have some common sense to give it some respect. If GOD made this earth, sure use it as you would, but don't destroy it. When I was little, back during junior high school, my Gym teacher taught us to one rule. If it is not yours treat it like it was precious and delicate. So this earth is not yours or mine, it is supposely GOD's land, don't mistreat it. Again, I don't believe in GOD, but I also seem to give more respect where it should be given.