The Beginning Of The Beginning Of My End

It’s no April Fools’ Day joke. Buried in a CNN report on massive new layoffs at various health agencies under Mine Furor and Wormwood, comes the news.

Also terminated was the entire staff of the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, according to Mark Wolfe, executive director of the National Energy Assistance Directors Association. The program provides about $4 billion to help millions of Americans with their heating and cooling bills.

“It will definitely hamper program operations,” Wolfe said, noting that he doesn’t see how the agency can “allocate the remaining $387 million in funds for this year without federal staff. The program could well grind to a halt.”

It was just a couple of weeks ago that I got my latest re-up under this program. If my “equal pay” amount at Portland General Electric remains at its current level, I have approximately eight months of electricity left.

I’ll admit that I didn’t expect the start of my own dissolution under this government to commence quite so quickly, but there you have it: the corrosion has put me on a clock.