There's one aspect of this proposal I find especially disturbing.

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The President's proposed budget was released today, and I found one particular cut to be of unique concern: cuts to the programs that help people make their homes more energy efficient and help poor people pay for heat. I don't want to have a big debate on why cut here and spend there, war versus education, stuff like that. I'm not interested in debating whether these programs are good or appropriate or legitimate functions of central government or whatever. What I want to know is this: doesn't our government understand that the charismatic and shrewd enemy of the American Way who runs the oil-rich nation of Venezuela is already providing discount heating oil to the U.S.' poor, and will surely take this opportunity to further his erosion of such people's loyalty to our government? This is a subtle attack on the very most basic grassroots level, and we're going to ignore/enable it? WTF? They've even got a raggedy-butt Kennedy doing TV commercials telling folks how to get the oil! This may seem like a small thing. I imagine the very first crack in a dam that's about to fail seems small, too... at least at first. If you don't plug it, pronto, though, the crack just keeps getting bigger, doesn't it?