Lets be clear, normally, I find Rense to be an unreliable source, but this is analysis and, there is a video on CNBC where Austan Goolsbee says what Rense says he said.
video where he is dismissive of LIHEAP.
Blocked Emergency LIHEAP Money For Maine This Winter
2-8-8AUGUSTA — Barack Obama’s chief economics adviser Austan Goolsbee today boasted that the Obama campaign had helped to prevent emergency heating assistance for low-income families from being included in the just-approved economic stimulus package which is now on its way to President Bush’s desk for signature. An increase in federal low-income heating assistance (known as LIHEAP), Goolsbee pointed out, had been championed by Obama’s opponent, New York Democratic Senator Hillary Clinton. Goolsbee’s remarks came in an interview this morning with Carl Quintanilla of CNBC business news television.”
It’s clear in the video, where Goolsbee dismisses LIHEAP as bureaucratic and wasteful.
Keeping poor people from freezing is a core Democratic Party value. In Maine, it’s a bipartisan value, but the folks who made it to the caucuses there are clearly too well off to qualify for the program, or to care about those who do.
George W. Bush has spent 7 years trying to make the poor poorer, and to denigrate this program, which helps the poor heat their homes in the winter is repulsive.
Goolsbee is “Chicago School Lite” on his economics, which may be useful for contacts with the press, which is increasingly overpaid, overfed (Candy Crowley), and self importantly proclaiming its support for the low wage economics that have prevailed since the mid 1970s, but it is not good for the American people or the Democratic Party.