Brandon is ready!

I remember seeing Amish families when we visited Kennedy Space Center in the 80s!

As a teen I worked in a local grocery store, which by law could pay new hires a “training wage” below minimum for the first 90 days. But I and others went on getting that wage for well over 90 days — until an anonymous correspondent (my dad) mailed the owner a copy of the relevant state law.

I’m sorry, but you know nothing whatsoever about the building trades market (among other things) if you think all weatherization needed in all low-income homes in all cold-weather states could magically “get done” in six months and render all future heating assistance unnecessary forever.

Would be happy to read! But gotta say, sweat equity is great, but some people physically can’t do it and you have to have a plan for them (I’m open to the answer to this being “tap into community volunteer programs,” btw). And none of this can happen INSTEAD OF meeting people’s immediate heat needs.

Please show me where I said weatherization isn’t the far better solution. Of course it is! We need very ambitious goals. But WHILE that is happening, people also need to not have their homes rendered unlivable by burst pipes because they had no money for fuel.

I would rather have a home where I can afford at least some heating while I am waiting for needed repairs and weatherization to add to my comfort. That’s why integrating these interventions (not sacrificing one for the other) is very important.

First of, many states have already started! But unless you want to clarify here, you’re saying “no money for fuel, only for weatherization,” and that’s a recipe for things like old people dying of pneumonia in their freezing houses because they had to wait 18 months for a contractor to be free.

To be clear! I’m an enthusiastic proponent of weatherization. But it can’t happen INSTEAD OF heating assistance, because that’s life or death stuff. It has to be fully integrated WITH heating assistance.

Yeah … was also wondering in that case what we’d do to keep people warm while waiting for all that work to get done (which takes time, lining up contractors etc).

You're making it sound like all LIHEAP funds go only to buy heating fuel, when states can and do spend as much as 25% of their funds on weatherization: liheapch.acf.hhs.gov/wxview.htm

Except that abolishing the monarchy was never an official position of the Lib Dems. Which means that just like every speech she ever gave or move she ever made once she became a professional politician, this speech wasn't meant as a legitimate political argument. It was meant to get her attention.

Yes. But what you
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Do you live in the District of Columbia? If not, do you understand how few rights the Americans who live there have, and how willing the MAGA regime will be to use its (sadly entirely legal and constitutional, btw) power to take away the rest, ie the home rule DC residents fought for for decades?

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