Obama Sandy aid bill filled with holiday goodies unrelated to storm damage (10)
Nothing new. "The wicked shall do wickedly and none of the wicked shall understand"
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I so feel for the writer here
We here are just a drop in the ocean to you all in America, considering the funding being channelled, but some of us here in NZ see 10 million$ from tax payers money here going to try to after years, the government apologising and trying to retrieve the bodies of our miners. (Which will never work anyway)
Im sorry but that money could be put towards their community in Pike River where families have been left without their loved ones, and income. am I too harsh?
Soph
We here are just a drop in the ocean to you all in America, considering the funding being channelled, but some of us here in NZ see 10 million$ from tax payers money here going to try to after years, the government apologising and trying to retrieve the bodies of our miners. (Which will never work anyway)
Im sorry but that money could be put towards their community in Pike River where families have been left without their loved ones, and income. am I too harsh?
Soph
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DaytonaDude: Nothing new. "The wicked shall do wickedly and none of the wicked shall understand"
In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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sophiasummer: I so feel for the writer here
We here are just a drop in the ocean to you all in America, considering the funding being channelled, but some of us here in NZ see 10 million$ from tax payers money here going to try to after years, the government apologising and trying to retrieve the bodies of our miners. (Which will never work anyway)
Im sorry but that money could be put towards their community in Pike River where families have been left without their loved ones, and income. am I too harsh?
Soph
No, not too harsh. I agree with you We here are just a drop in the ocean to you all in America, considering the funding being channelled, but some of us here in NZ see 10 million$ from tax payers money here going to try to after years, the government apologising and trying to retrieve the bodies of our miners. (Which will never work anyway)
Im sorry but that money could be put towards their community in Pike River where families have been left without their loved ones, and income. am I too harsh?
Soph
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Ccincy: I gave up long ago in trying to figure why our political system is the way it is.Nothing ever gets done where anyone benefits.It's all about greed,power and infighting.
The shape of injustice,thousands of years ago to never seep into change.
May you enjoy you're piece of paradise CC.
Soph
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Ccincy: I gave up long ago in trying to figure why our political system is the way it is.Nothing ever gets done where anyone benefits.It's all about greed,power and infighting.
The politicians get a benefit, but for us out here in the public we just get stuck up our WOOOOOOO!!
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Foxmaine: The politicians get a benefit, but for us out here in the public we just get stuck up our WOOOOOOO!!
Fox It's going be very interesting to see how the 'cliff' comes out.
I don't think there'll be any changes for our benefit.Like always it'll benefit the rich.
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Foxmaine: The politicians get a benefit, but for us out here in the public we just get stuck up our WOOOOOOO!!
but yet its the voters who are to blame, seriously. Look at the lack of common sense in D.C, but then look at the I.Q of those who vote for the same idiots over and over.
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WASHINGTON — President Obama’s $60.4 billion request for Hurricane Sandy relief has morphed into a huge Christmas stocking of goodies for federal agencies and even the state of Alaska, The Post has learned.
The pork-barrel feast includes more than $8 million to buy cars and equipment for the Homeland Security and Justice departments. It also includes a whopping $150 million for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to dole out to fisheries in Alaska and $2 million for the Smithsonian Institution to repair museum roofs in DC.
An eye-popping $13 billion would go to “mitigation” projects to prepare for future storms.
BARELY HOLDING ON: A woman stands amid rubble in Sandy-thrashed Breezy Point, Queens, where more federal assistance would be welcome.
Dan Callister
BARELY HOLDING ON: A woman stands amid rubble in Sandy-thrashed Breezy Point, Queens, where more federal assistance would be welcome.
Other big-ticket items in the bill include $207 million for the VA Manhattan Medical Center; $41 million to fix up eight military bases along the storm’s path, including Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; $4 million for repairs at Kennedy Space Center in Florida; $3.3 million for the Plum Island Animal Disease Center and $1.1 million to repair national cemeteries.
Budget watchdogs have dubbed the 94-page emergency-spending bill “Sandy Scam.”
Matt Mayer of the conservative Heritage Foundation slammed the request as an “enormous Christmas gift worth of stuff.”
“The funding here should be focused on helping the community and the people, not replacing federal assets or federal items,” he said.
Republican lawmakers say the lack of details and justifications for the spending will delay approval until after Christmas, while they analyze and document what spending is “appropriate.”
“To throw out a number this large without in-depth analysis and formal request detailing the basis for it I think is premature and I wouldn’t support that,” said Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.).
Gov. Cuomo yesterday warned Congress not to hold up the money.
“There is no Plan B,” declared Cuomo at a press conference at the governor’s office in Manhattan, where he was joined by business and union leaders.
Mayor Bloomberg, however, called for careful scrutiny of the federal spending.
“You would think they’d want to ask questions before they give away the public’s money,” the mayor said on his radio program.