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Thursday, January 03, 2013

The Pork Filled and Expensive Non-Relief Sandy Relief Bill

It's been 66 days since Hurricane Sandy slammed into the East Coast, causing major damage in New York and New Jersey. The storm was so powerful, it is in the running to become the most expensive storm for taxpayers on record. Historically, Congress has passed hurricane relief bills in the immediate aftermath of storm damage, but Sandy is a different story. Why? Congress wrote up Hurricane Sandy Relief legislation and then Harry Reid's Senate loaded it with pork. What's in it? Many things that hardly count as relief for victims.
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.

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.”
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4 comments:

  1. AnonymousJanuary 3, 2013 at 9:30 AM

    you can tell christie and the rest of the blowhards this is why the bill should NOT be passed. no one in washington can do the right thing. hope the entire bill fails until they get it right

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  2. AnonymousJanuary 3, 2013 at 12:33 PM

    AGREED!!! If the American people had any backbone or guts, everyone currently in Congress (House & Senate)should be voted out. Here's 2 main reasons: This B/S with Sandy relief & the "Fiscal Cliff". Don't pass crap at the 11th hour & try to make everyone think you worked so hard. Bullsh*t.

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  3. lmclainJanuary 3, 2013 at 12:51 PM

    These are our "leaders". So, I URGE all people to keep voting. Not that your vote makes a difference. It just makes them feel so good that you actually BELIEVE it does. USA! USA! USA! Now, start paying attention. We are getting played, as in "scammed".

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  4. AnonymousJanuary 3, 2013 at 1:59 PM

    What about another fire boat for Salisbury? They spend OUR money in such useless ways. I am all for supporting the emergency needs of victims of natural disasters, but adding all of these extras in is part of the problem. Thank goodness for the volunteers who are already there working to help. So much is REALLY needed when this type of disaster happens.

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