Posted at Hartmann Report on May. 6, 2025
A Nation Without Empathy Is Just a Crime Syndicate With a Flag
While billionaires warm their hands over tax breaks, Dwayne LaBrecque — a diabetic father of five in Maine — wonders how he'll survive the winter without toes, heat, or help…
Dwayne LaBrecque, a diabetic who lost several toes and part of his foot to infection, will be severely impacted by cuts to LIHEAP, the low income fuel oil heating program that Congress started in 1981 and Trump and Musk put on the chopping block.
After losing his job as a shipping manager, Dwayne's income plummeted, making it difficult to support his fiancée and five children in rural Maine. He expressed grave concern about making it through next winter without this assistance, stating:
"If the president turned around and did away with that funding, I have no idea how we'd survive in the winter."
But Donald Trump and congressional Republicans don't care: the budget Trump just released and they're endorsing kills off LIHEAP.
Empathy is the ability to experience what another person is going through as a real sensation, a genuine emotion or even physical reaction, in body and mind. It's what causes us to flinch or look away when we see a dog getting hit by a car or a fellow human experiencing real trauma.