For Poor People, Heating Help

The Bush administration on Friday released $40 million in emergency relief funds to 11 states, including more than $3 million for Connecticut , to help poor people cope with high heating bills.

[laura]

where do you go for this kind of help i was going to fuel assisants and they said they could not help me anymore.i have threee children one who is diabetic insulin dependendent and a foue year old with ecto dermaldysplasia and can no help.i have to leave my heat on 65 to save heat because there is no help and i live on 108.00 a week please tell me where i can get help

[Erin-Marree]

laura wrote:

where do you go for this kind of help i was going to fuel assisants and they said they could not help me anymore.i have threee children one who is diabetic insulin dependendent and a foue year old with ecto dermaldysplasia and can no help.i have to leave my heat on 65 to save heat because there is no help and i live on 108.00 a week please tell me where i can get help

I wish I could tell you where to go. Did you try CRT? I also get help with heating oil. I have gotten 2 deliveries this winter, one from CRT and one from ST. Vincent De Pauls. I wish they made it easier for the people who need it to get it. I have a 4 year old with bad ashma and cronic broncitis.

[Hi There]

laura wrote:

where do you go for this kind of help i was going to fuel assisants and they said they could not help me anymore.i have threee children one who is diabetic insulin dependendent and a foue year old with ecto dermaldysplasia and can no help.i have to leave my heat on 65 to save heat because there is no help and i live on 108.00 a week please tell me where i can get help

Did you try calling the Info line? They will be able to give you information about all the programs in your area that can possibly help you, then you'll need to contact those places. The number is 211.

[DonC]

Winter assistance is a MUST for struggling families who are being victimized by high oil prices. I applaud the release of any federal program and funds that helps these folks trough the winter and the state of Conecticut should help them as well.

[bonzo]

I usually make sarcastic comments on this forum but i really feel for everyone trying to pay their heating bills,$3.30 a gallon for oil and climbing thats crazy. its not like gambling,smoking,drinking,wome n,fast cars,or drums,(not that i know about those things) we all need to stay warm! Hopefully help can be optained easier. Local town agencys should be able to help!

[hartfordisadisas ter]

Any low income families who need the help should get it...EXCEPT illegal aliens.

[Hi There]

For those of you who don't need assistance I highly recommend pre-paying your heating oil if you can. I paid $2.24 a galon last August, I don't worry about increases in prices, and I don't even have to think about checking my tank and caling for a delivery. I realize that this isn't for everyone, but we've been doing it for about 8 years and haven't regretted it yet.

[working 4 a sm fam oil co]

Hi There wrote:

For those of you who don't need assistance I highly recommend pre-paying your heating oil if you can. I paid $2.24 a galon last August, I don't worry about increases in prices, and I don't even have to think about checking my tank and caling for a delivery. I realize that this isn't for everyone, but we've been doing it for about 8 years and haven't regretted it yet.

AMEN!!!
Yes, we like other small family owned oil companies (who are broke ourselves). Offer plans like you said for people who can pay upfront like you, if you can't afford that we offer 6 month and 12 month budgets. Our customers (including myself) are on a fixed price 12 month budget for $2.59 per gallon. I'm not complaining that I pay $200.00 per month for twelve months. It is so much easier and affordable. When I hear people say they CAN'T afford to be on a budget, I have to laugh inside because that is the only way to go if you are on a fixed income!!

[lol]

It's all a farse. A few years ago my family had run into major financial problems. No one would help. The best answer I got was "call the red-cross". That was no help.

CL&P cut off power and we had no oil to heat our home. I had to live in that house for 2 months with no electricity, heat or hot water until it was sold. The only way you can get help is if you're in the system (section 8) to begin with. If you're just a regular homeowner with income and equity in a proprty, you're SOL, regardless. Others that don't even try get all the breaks. Nice.

[bonzo]

working 4 a sm fam oil co wrote:

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AMEN!!!
Yes, we like other small family owned oil companies (who are broke ourselves). Offer plans like you said for people who can pay upfront like you, if you can't afford that we offer 6 month and 12 month budgets. Our customers (including myself) are on a fixed price 12 month budget for $2.59 per gallon. I'm not complaining that I pay $200.00 per month for twelve months. It is so much easier and affordable. When I hear people say they CAN'T afford to be on a budget, I have to laugh inside because that is the only way to go if you are on a fixed income!!

Since you are in the oil business, how come when you order oil on a tuesday and the price is $3.09 a gallon,that if it is delivered wednesday and the price becomes $3.30, shouldn't it be the price when you ordered it. One has no control over delivery time. I mean this is robbery. If you order food from Stop n Shop pea pod do they up on there prices as they are being delvered??

[lol]

What's funny is that low income Blacks and Puerto Ricans get all types of help. But the average "Joe" that tries to earn and survive gets nothing. It's not fair, is it? And being an income and tax paying person, I should be more entitled to assistance than some other person that has never contributed anything, but constantly takes from social programs.

This type of thing angers me. Someone that doesn't work, collects money and is sponsored for housing gets more than someone that works and hits on hard times. No wonder I despise all of this..I guess the motto is "be a loser, don't go to school, don't work, breed a bunch of kids, get state support for food, get state support for housing, get state support for health care" and don't even thank the taxpayers that help that even when those same tax payers are seeking help themselves. Nice.

[bonzo]

lol wrote:

What's funny is that low income Blacks and Puerto Ricans get all types of help. But the average "Joe" that tries to earn and survive gets nothing. It's not fair, is it? And being an income and tax paying person, I should be more entitled to assistance than some other person that has never contributed anything, but constantly takes from social programs.
This type of thing angers me. Someone that doesn't work, collects money and is sponsored for housing gets more than someone that works and hits on hard times. No wonder I despise all of this..I guess the motto is "be a loser, don't go to school, don't work, breed a bunch of kids, get state support for food, get state support for housing, get state support for health care" and don't even thank the taxpayers that help that even when those same tax payers are seeking help themselves. Nice.

sounds to me like you know the routine,practice makes perfect!

[lol IS CORRECT]

Post #11 has got it right! My neighbor's daughter was working two part time jobs, both minimum wage, to try to support three kids because her abusive and addicted husband could not longer be tolerated and she finally dumped him. BECAUSE she had the two lousy jobs, which did not earn her enough to provide for 3 school age kids, she could not get ANY assistance from Uncle Sam. However, IF she would have stayed home, she could have been on section 8 (free rent), food stamps, medicaid, welfare, and on and on.
Also, she was white, which is OBVIOUSLY the wrong color these days. One of her jobs was a most dangerous graveyard shift as cashier at a convenience store. She chose to keep working and be self-sufficient, even though they had close to nothing. Yes, she is very bitter about the ILLEGALS getting easy taxpayer-funded needs handed to them, but still she toils and the kids sacrifice their happy childhood.

[bonzo]

lol IS CORRECT wrote:

Post #11 has got it right! My neighbor's daughter was working two part time jobs, both minimum wage, to try to support three kids because her abusive and addicted husband could not longer be tolerated and she finally dumped him. BECAUSE she had the two lousy jobs, which did not earn her enough to provide for 3 school age kids, she could not get ANY assistance from Uncle Sam. However, IF she would have stayed home, she could have been on section 8 (free rent), food stamps, medicaid, welfare, and on and on.
Also, she was white, which is OBVIOUSLY the wrong color these days. One of her jobs was a most dangerous graveyard shift as cashier at a convenience store. She chose to keep working and be self-sufficient, even though they had close to nothing. Yes, she is very bitter about the ILLEGALS getting easy taxpayer-funded needs handed to them, but still she toils and the kids sacrifice their happy childhood.

You people scare me with your F***ed up way of thinking. Why dont you apply for a job and ask your employer to pay you for a year in advance,before you do any work. Color has nothing to do with it, ignorance does!!

[Last Republican in MA]

DonC wrote:

Winter assistance is a MUST for struggling families who are being victimized by high oil prices. I applaud the release of any federal program and funds that helps these folks trough the winter and the state of Conecticut should help them as well.

Victimized ????? "Victimized" by high oil prices. LMAO!!!!!

Well, you have idenfied the key underpinning of today's Socialist Democrat: Eveyone is a Professional Victim... with no recourse but to enact a Government-mandatedre-distribu tion of income to those who did not earn it. It is therefore up to any employed U.S. citizen to pay for those who:

-can not "afford" a home ( When Commons Sense used to prevail in this country," Affordable Housing" used to be called an "apartment" or "starter home")

- do not want to work. Note that Shrillary and other Congressional Democrats are currently seeking to extend unemployment coverage from 6 months to 12 months.

- do not want to learn English. It therefore becomes our responsibility to pay for Special Ed and language teachers to educate the resident transvestites and crimi-grants who have no intention of assimilating, and suck our financial teats like we're a perpetual wet nurse.

- do not want to take responsibility for living within their means and establishing a budget. The mortgage mess? There is no surprise in any of this .. but taxpayers should not be required to bail-out the nitwits, speculators, and irresponsible A-holes who buy more house than they can affrord.

Here's a hint. There is no successful society on Earth where results are equalized by government mandate.

[HSA]

how does it help the poor man actually?
Where does the money go?

[Tom]

The CEO of UTC makes $65 MILLION last year, and we can't keep mothers & children warm in a CT winter? So what's wrong with America?

[HC Here]

Tom wrote:

The CEO of UTC makes $65 MILLION last year, and we can't keep mothers & children warm in a CT winter? So what's wrong with America?

The CEO of UTC probably has more responsibiilties as the chief executive of an international company than a woman who chose to get pregnant without a means of paying for that child. We want and need companies, so we have to pay people to operate them hopefully for a profit which is shared with the managers, the workers, and the shareholders. If a woman can't demonstrate the common sense to refrain from making a baby, and can't devise a plan to fund and operate her own household, what makes you think she could assume the same responsibilities of a multinational CEO. Both are getting a return on the efforts they contribute and the good they do for society. The CEO produces jobs and products for people. The mama produces for society and helps society by uh, uh, uh - accepting Section 8 and sponging off others charity? Is that the best answer anyone can think of?

[bonzo]

HC Here wrote:

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The CEO of UTC probably has more responsibiilties as the chief executive of an international company than a woman who chose to get pregnant without a means of paying for that child. We want and need companies, so we have to pay people to operate them hopefully for a profit which is shared with the managers, the workers, and the shareholders. If a woman can't demonstrate the common sense to refrain from making a baby, and can't devise a plan to fund and operate her own household, what makes you think she could assume the same responsibilities of a multinational CEO. Both are getting a return on the efforts they contribute and the good they do for society. The CEO produces jobs and products for people. The mama produces for society and helps society by uh, uh, uh - accepting Section 8 and sponging off others charity? Is that the best answer anyone can think of?

you are awful wordy i sure hope you never find yourself in a situation needing others help!! your right uh uh its all about $$$$

[Get Help]

That's an awfully broad generalization don't you think?
I am sorry that you witness so much injustice but to assume that the average white Joe does not get help because he is white is wrong. Just like assuming that African Americans and PR's don't contribute are all welfare suckers is wrong. That's like me thinking all Whites are racists ***holes. Oh, wait....

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lol wrote:

What's funny is that low income Blacks and Puerto Ricans get all types of help. But the average "Joe" that tries to earn and survive gets nothing. It's not fair, is it? And being an income and tax paying person, I should be more entitled to assistance than some other person that has never contributed anything, but constantly takes from social programs.
This type of thing angers me. Someone that doesn't work, collects money and is sponsored for housing gets more than someone that works and hits on hard times. No wonder I despise all of this..I guess the motto is "be a loser, don't go to school, don't work, breed a bunch of kids, get state support for food, get state support for housing, get state support for health care" and don't even thank the taxpayers that help that even when those same tax payers are seeking help themselves. Nice.