Needing a little bit of assistance

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What a crock... There are some genuinely poor people out there who need help with their heating bills. The photo accompanying this article shows some asshat who does not fit this description. From Macon, GA The Telegraph:
Funding cuts leave many without home heating assistance in Macon
When Eugene Jenkins showed up at St. Paul AME Church at 1:30 a.m. Wednesday, he didn�t know he would be one of the last people to get a ticket for assistance with his heating bill.

He waited in line until 7 a.m., when officials started to hand out the tickets, then went home for a few hours before returning at 10 a.m. By the time he had finished up his paperwork, it was 1:15 p.m., making for a long day.

Jenkins was one of the lucky ones in Macon, though. Other people were turned away because the Macon-Bibb County Economic Opportunity Council, which distributes the federal money, had its share of funding for the program cut by 44 percent this year.

�I don�t know what I was going to do without it,� Jenkins said. �It�s something that needs to get taken care of.�

Jimmie Samuel, executive director of the agency, said the need for assistance in Bibb County has spiked, while the available funds to fill those needs have been slashed.

�We�re close to being out of money,� Samuel said. �We�re going to assess to see what we can do, to see if we can do any more.�

That�s left people such as Raymeica Kelley frustrated. Kelley said she, her mother and her sister arrived at the church about 3 a.m. Wednesday, only to get turned away.
Here is Raymeica Kelley's photo:
Raymeica_Kelley_photo.jpg
Let's see now -- Raymeica can afford a whopping big-screen television and an XBox with a couple of controllers but she can't afford money for heating. I would bet that her family members each have cell phones, I would bet there is a microwave in the kitchen and at least one computer and one stereo, probably an iPod or two. Ms. Kelley is not poor, she is just addicted to the government cheese and wants her share. To add insult to injury, any entitlements she gets is just taking it out of the mouths of the people who genuinely need it. Talk about being a total asshat...

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