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Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013 | 2:01 a.m.
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Perhaps the most honest thing Mitt Romney said during the campaign was at a fundraiser in Florida. He was captured on tape saying, “There are 47 percent who are with him (Obama), who are dependent upon government, who believe they are victims ... my job is to not worry about those people.”
He was not only giving his view but also the view of the GOP as well. House Speaker John Boehner, refusing to allow a vote on the Superstorm Sandy fund when he had promised to do so, is another example of not worrying about “those” people. Those people this time are people who live in Democratic states such as New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. It has been over two months since devastation rocked the East Coast and still no appropriation of funds. When Katrina hit, it took eight days. Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama versus New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. You figure the math. Southern states versus Northeast states.
The House has an obligation to support all of America fairly, not give preferential treatment to some regions over others because of political leanings.
Robert did you miss reading the Sandy bill?
The Sandy bill was loaded - I say loaded with PORK for non SANDY Senators States
REID passed a PORK BARREL BILL
It took Reid 4 months to pass that bill with all the goods
Boehner took two more days to pass only a SANDY AID BILL
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Robert stop with the attitude stuff it does not wear well on you
Expecting responsible adult action by the House of Representatives is the triumph of optimism over experience.
Of the $60 Billion in hurricane aid, over one-third was for pork and plum projects added by Senators in a procedure called "filling the tree." This is where the majority party gets first dibs to add amendments to the bill to get automatic passage without a floor debate and hearing. If you're talking about playing politics with emergency aid, then "filling the tree" by adding superfluous amendments is prima facia evidence.
CarmineD
Just another way to "redistribute" the wealth. Why is it the government's job to pay for the indolence and cheapness of those who don't have enough brains to insure their property? Year after year, the same scenario plays out where the same "tragedy" hits the same area and taxpayers are expected to pick up the costs. Quit "fixing" the situation by rebuilding in the same area and then "fixing" it once again a few years later. That's the definition of insanity! I remember a commercial some years back that admonished viewers that "It's not nice to fool Mother Nature." Well, we can't! But we can be smart and try not to.
Let's talk about respondibility.
Is it respondibility doing nothing about a $17 trillion debt?
Is it respondibility doing nothing about annual trillion deficits?
Is it respondibility doing nothing the some $75 trillion unfunded Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security liabilities?
Is it respondibility to keeping spending money like drunken sailors and passing "relief bills" that are full of pork?
Libs want to spend our children's future into oblivion.
Rock says "Let's talk about responsibility. Is it responsibility doing nothing about a $17 trillion debt? Is it responsibility doing nothing about annual trillion deficits?"
News flash! Obama better own up to spending limits PDQ or the public will eat his legacy for lunch. THE PUBLIC KNOWS WE HAVE A SPENDING PROBLEM
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John Boehner says, "the President said to me, 'We don't have a spending problem.' " "The president's insistence that Washington doesn't have a spending problem is seeming predicated on Obama's belief that massive federal deficits stem only from what Mr. Obama called "a health-care problem." Made much worse by Obamacare.
You can almost hear Obama singing "I yam what I yam"
Obamacare was suppose to fix this for all time and for which Obama can not admit failure and will do nothing. WSJ 1-6-13
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We don't have a spending problem. As long as you don't have children.
FYI:
In my post above the majority party in the Senate is THE DEMOCRATS. They added the pork and plum dollars in the Senate by a procedural loophole called "filling the tree." Adding amendments with spending money for their own political gain to curry power and influence. Ah the tyranny of the majority. Heaven help us [as in US] if the filibuster rule gets changed from a super majority [60] to a simple majority [51] in the Senate.
CarmineD
This is the kind of stuff that needs to stop that Obama has said he would several times, union contractors call this money and stimulus a good old fashion healer. Belly up to the pork barrel feeding trough if you can manage to get America's switch hitting Chris Christie out of the way.
Yeah, you can tell the difference when it comes to the Democrat states. These Democrat states attempt to lard up an "emergency bill" with all kinds of things that aren't even related to that particular emergencey and it's absolutely amazing to watch rank in file Democrats like this Blanner guy have absolutely no problem with all that pork going to just a couple of states. Talk about playing politics, that would be you Mr Blanner.
MotorMouth retorts "I say not a DIME to the Sandy victims. Let them eat sand."
Wow the liberals reach a new low. Going against even Obama and Reid.
Good thing Republicans put this up for a vote and got it passed
Any spending that's not on their own plate
is labeled pork by the repub/teabag party.
"Steve LaTourette, the former Republican representative of Ohio's 14th Congressional District, just retired last week from Congress after 18 years in office. He is "outspoken ally" of Speaker John Boehner, writes Molly Ball at The Atlantic. That may be so, however comments he made in a post-retirement interview does not do any favors for the Speaker of the House. Ball asked LaTourette, why "Boehner decided not to hold a vote on the bill to fund relief money for victims of Hurricane Sandy"?
LaTourette: The Sandy thing could have been handled better. But Boehner had expended so much political capital on the tax bill, and now these same 20 to 60 people were grousing that [the aid money] was unpaid for. You look at the roll call on the tax bill -- Boehner votes yes, and every other [member of the GOP leadership] except Cathy McMorris Rodgers voted no.
During the roll call on the tax bill, I walked into the cloakroom, and Boehner was sitting there. I said, 'This Sandy thing is really important. We've got to do something.' He said, 'Not tonight.' I asked if we were going to do it tomorrow, and he said no. He said, 'After this mess, I just can't do it tonight.'
Q: I don't understand. Was he just exhausted? Was he afraid the votes wouldn't be there?
LaTourette: He had expended a lot of political capital to get the 85 votes [on the fiscal-cliff deal], and he felt a little betrayed that the other members of the elected leadership walked on him. And the last piece was, as you saw during the Speaker election [Thursday], this sort of insurrection was forming against him. There was a fear that if he put $60 billion, no matter how worthy, of unpaid-for emergency spending on the floor, the insurrection would become bigger than it was.
So, there you have it people of New Jersey, New York, and others waiting for help in the Northeast. Boehner's sudden unwillingness to put the $60.4 billion in Sandy aid to a vote in the 112th Congress was to help save his own job in the 113th."
Jerry Fink,
"Just another way to "redistribute" the wealth.Why is it the Government's job to pay for Indolence and cheapness of those who don't have enough brains to insure their property".
Call it what you may.I'd rather see the Government help the citizen's of our country in times of natural disasters.Then spend a trillion plus dollars in Iraq. with the death's of 4,500 and nearly 40,000 wounded G.I's.Some things need to be unsaid.
MotorMouth says " Surprising that you right wingers are against spending except when you're not."
Republicans have NEVER been against helping Thoses that are in need
Really surprised that you do not consider Sandy victims to be in real need of our help
The GOP told NO to evacuate. The Mayor and the Governor kept it open for business on that saturday night. Tax revenue was more important then the lives of their citizens.
Is MotorSports really Kanye West? LOL!
The people who had flood insurance got thier money becuase the part of the Sandy bill that passes was to loan more money to the national flood program to fund the claims. The remaining amount is money for people that did not buy insurance aswell as comunities for more clean up and recontruction, much of which is not critical. In the Katrina case levies were broken and serious flooding was emergency type relief needed. Think about all the flooding in New England last summer, many properties were damaged yet you did not hear those people crying. Same thing with the twin cities floods a few years back, even when 4 h'canes rolled thru FL in 2004. The money will be doled out to those who did not insure, towns will get massive new infrastrucure they never had, all they have to do is have patience and wait for the funding to be voted on.
Last Throes read the Sandy bill before you claim the Rep have a spending problem. Oh I forgot you Dems don't read bills you just pass them first then see whats in it.
The reason the people affected by Sandy aren't insured against this type of disaster is because the insurance companies won't cover it. Makes you wonder why they won't.
Motosports you adjust the facts so you can play the race card. What you (and most dividers) do best.
Sam, so the squandering of money in one area justifies waste in other areas? We should quit being the "world's policeman." Long past time to close down our bases in Europe and to bring our troops back from Japan and Korea. And, to reward folks for being too stupid or too cheap to protect their assets by "bailing" them out, should be a no-no. Enough already with a bloated government handing out "goodies" that are really stealth methods intended to buy votes at taxpayer expense.
Can we get a grip on it. No one checks it out BEFORE A DISASTER. Disaster aid will not put anyone back to where they were before the storm. No one should expect the government to walk in and make everything all better. Further, it is ridiculous for State and local governments to expect the federal revenue to rebuild their infrastructure from the ground up. Sure it's nice when the feds spend our money to chip in and help but let's not expect the feds to manage all aspects of recovery.
Motorsports 1:26: Pell grants are a need? College is NOT a divine right.
WIC is more welfare for those who get pregnant without a means to support themselves. We do NOT need any more of that dna in our gene pool.
VA: well maybe--but we'd need a whole lot less of it if they'd get us out of Afghanistan AND Europe within 70 years of the end of hostilities.
Chuck: There is no need to build subdivision after subdivision in major flood zones. It's similar to Vegas. We have miles of open desert but we've got thousands of homes in flood planes--so every time it rains..... And every now and then, we get major flood damage. CITIES and States can ensure this does NOT HAPPEN by simply refusing to issue building permits for major flood zones. If they can't figure out a way to implement zoning changes maybe buying out homeowners as property is put up for sale (to save the court fights about eminent domain) then let the owners live there at their own risk.
But not to promote a bullfight to politics. Aren't they fighting enough already ?