Outtage rage

I'm outraged as usual when I read that HEAP again sponsors the summer 'stop the outtage' giveaway. The elderly,who can't possibly be elderly at 60, (I'm not) and those who qualify for medical conditions,who can be anyone nowadays according to the panic-mongering government-sponsored media,can receive $175 toward electric bill payments or an air conditioner. My used air conditioner cost $25. My electric bill ranks high on the priority list of must-pays so other issues are ranked further down. My gripe is that even though I may theoretically live meagerly within my means at poverty level(I like to call it poor in spirit),the government gives 'summer help' to 'low-income' households that are not even at the poverty line, but at 200% of the federal poverty guideline.

There is no such thing as 'no' in our giveaway culture. No swift and sure justice. No cutoff date that is not revised. No equals maybe, no calls for a re-do, no often means yes. There's no poverty line, no case without an exception. No black and white. Just grey giveaways and compromises.