And this, my friends, is why we are in such HUGE debt!!!
So this is why Speaker of the House John Boehner would not
sign off on the $51 BILLION relief bill for Hurricane Sandy and Chris Christie
made a big stink over it........turns out Boehner knew what he was doing......
If you think the government doesn't have a spending problem,
just check the items added to the Hurricane Sandy Relief bill sent
by the Senate to the House. Do any of them have any relation to the hurricane?
$4 million for the Kennedy Space Center .
$8 million to buy cars and equipment for the Homeland Security and
Justice departments.
$20 million for a nationwide "Water Resources Priorities
Study".
$41 million for eight military bases including Guantanamo Bay .
$56.8 million for charting the debris from last year's Japanese
tsunami.
$58.8 million for forest restoration on private land.
$100 million for the federal Head Start day care program.
$150 million in funding for Alaskan fisheries.
$188 million for new Amtrak lines (not repair, whole new lines).
$197 million "to. protect coastal ecosystems and habitat
impacted by Hurricane Sandy."
$5.3 billion to the Army Corps of Engineers (that's more than
their annual budget).
$10.78 billion for public transportation, most of which is
allocated to future construction and improvements, not disaster relief.
$13 billion would go to "mitigation" projects to prepare
for future storms.
$17 billion for wasteful Community Development Block Grants
(CDBG), a program that has become notorious for its use as a backdoor earmark
program.
How does any of this have anything to do with immediate emergency
relief for the victims of Hurricane Sandy?
Harry Reid passed this through the Senate then sent them all home,
so that the House couldn't send it back in time to remove the pork. All they
could do was vote it down.
These Senators don't care about the victims of Sandy , it's all
just business as usual.
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