Joe Kennedy blasts President Obama’s plan

The Boston Herald reports:

Political heavyweights on both sides of the aisle are turning up the heat on President Obama’s proposal to cut fuel assistance to the needy.

“To expect that the federal budget can be balanced by simply cutting discretionary programs . . . while we let the richest people in the country get enormous tax breaks . . . is just wrong,” Joseph P. Kennedy II, president of Citizens Energy Corp., a Boston company that provides fuel to low-income families, told the Herald earlier this week. “It tells me we should set aside a couple hundred thousand dollars to send President Obama and the Republicans back to math class.”

No word yet on Joe Kennedy giving up his wealth to the IRS.