SANDY

[700UW]

 

[delldude]

No chance you have a clue why.........

 

[delldude]

This have anything to do with it?

[T]he Sandy “relief” bill is really a Sandy “recovery” bill. It’s about the size and shape of the second wave of Sandy spending, which can and should be much more deliberate than the the first wave. The first wave of Sandy spending is already happening. Is it happening quickly or efficiently enough? There is no such thing as quickly or efficiently enough for the people of Staten Island or Seaside Heights, but it’s nevertheless safe to assume that if you think private charities and emergency responders aren’t allocating efficiently, you’re probably going to be disappointed by Congress, too. In fact, according to an analysis released by Sens. Coburn and McCain, “64 percent of the $60.4 billion in ‘emergency’ spending in this legislation will not be spent for nearly two years.

And among some of the provisions in the Senate-passed bill:

•$2 million to repair damage to the roofs of museums in Washington, D.C., while many in Hurricane Sandy’s path still have no roof over their own heads.
•$150 million for fisheries as far away from the storm’s path as Alaska.
•$125 million for the Department of Agriculture’s Emergency Watershed Protection program, which helps restore watersheds damaged by wildfires and drought.
•$20 million for a nationwide Water Resources Priorities Study.
•$15 million for NASA facilities, though NASA itself has called its damage from the hurricane ‘minimal.’
•$50 million in subsidies for tree planting on private properties.​

 

[700UW]

Or maybe it was because of this.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/sources-hurricane-aid-tabled-spite-article-1.1231561#ixzz2Gql4FVwA

Sources: House Speaker yanked $60 billion in Sandy aid out of spite

Speaker was angry after House Majority Leader Eric Cantor defied him on legislation to address the fiscal cliff

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[Glenn Quagmire]

Issa is also bitching about this. Yet yesterday on CSPAN, I watched him (when hos entire conference was in meetings talking about the fiscal cliff) pass 2 bills naming Post Offices in different states after people. Time to do that, yet no time to look after other priorities.

If you look at any appropriation bill, it will always have other spending attached to it that does not fall under the name. Congress is very clever when they name a bill. Just so happens that the majority of this one is in Sandy money. There is about .16% of other spending in it, but the majority held it up. Much of that spending was for Republican backed programs.

The circular firing squad continues. Even on the tax bill to avert the cliff, the Speaker and the Majority Leader of his caucus along with the whip, voted opposite of each other.

The 2014 mid term elections will be a smooth ride for the Democrats if the Republicans continue on with this three ring circus.

 

[southwind]

Yeah, but we all know the Demorats will F%&K it up again, just like the first time they held all 3 !

 

[700UW]

 

[signals]

Hmmmm. Let me see why I would say that this Project SANDY is pretty laughable. Speaking from an UpState NYer's view...well Staten Island is, well how do I say it without offending certain people and sounding like an absolute racist? Ahh, what the hell I'll call a spade a spade...THe people are different because the are $$RICH$$. Not to mention they had to have insurance as is required in NYS.

I feel bad for New Jersey the poor little rich state that mooches off of NY...I think it's the Statue of Liberty thing!

I hate to say it, but all we are doing with SANDY relief is paying off the insurance companies so they won't have to raise the people's rates too much!

Katrina and Sandy, one was a poor man's storm and the other was a rich man's storm, maybe people shouldn't live close to water!!!

 

[Ms Tree]

May be they should not live in tornado prone areas, earth quake prone areas....that leaves what..... Two or three states for us?

Of course we could invest in safeguards that make the cost of natural catastrophes less expensive but that would be proactive... Not the US way.

 

[delldude]

Or maybe it was because of this.

http://www.nydailyne...1#ixzz2Gql4FVwA

Sources: House Speaker yanked $60 billion in Sandy aid out of spite

Speaker was angry after House Majority Leader Eric Cantor defied him on legislation to address the fiscal cliff

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.....it was the pork.

Christie Craving Pork-Filled Sandy Bill

But one of the big objections to the bill was that Senate Democrats had filled it with pork.

In fact, "Democrats expanded the legislation during a mark-up to include not just areas affected by Sandy, but also to provide money for 'storm events that occurred in 2012 along the Gulf Coast and Atlantic Coast within the boundaries of the North Atlantic and Mississippi Valley divisions of the Corps that were affected by Hurricanes Sandy and Isaac,'" we reported previously.

The other white meat

Of course a dem and a rino going make your boys look bad...LOL

 

[Glenn Quagmire]

Mmmmmmm.....

McRib is back......

http://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en/food/product_nutrition.sandwiches.292.mcrib-.html

 

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Mmmmmmm.....

McRib is back......

http://www.mcdonalds...292.mcrib-.html

Please feel free to tell me and the moderators what this has to do with American Airlines. Take a trip over to the water cooler and see if you can debate this there.

 

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[Dog Wonder]

Boehner gavels the House to a close without considering Sandy relief.

 

[777 fixer]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.....it was the pork.

Christie Craving Pork-Filled Sandy Bill



The other white meat

Of course a dem and a rino going make your boys look bad...LOL

I wonder if the Weekly Standard has a story about pork in Republican supported bills. I don't think it would take much investigating to find some. Therefore it is a tad bit dinsengenous to make it the GOP appear pure as the freshly fallen snow.