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发帖数: 29846 | 1 Obama Sandy Aid Bill Filled With Holiday Goodies Unrelated to Storm Damage
by Jammie
Never let a crisis go to waste, especially when you’re Santa Obama doling
out our tax money.
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.
Wait, what? Fisheries in Alaska? Smithsonian repairs? Weren’t we told about
“no red tape” and how all the money would go directly to the states and
the victims? What on earth does an Alaskan fishery have to do with an east
coast storm?
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.).
I guess we have to wait to find out what’s in it, just like ObamaCare. | j*****g
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: Obama Sandy Aid Bill Filled With Holiday Goodies Unrelated to Storm Damage
: by Jammie
: Never let a crisis go to waste, especially when you’re Santa Obama doling
: out our tax money.
: 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
| w*****2
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