Professor: Texans ‘Deserve’ Harvey Because They Voted For Trump

[Reynolds]

No and now they've learned a lesson.

HankD

You do realize that bill was not a clean bill? It was bloated to death with pork that had absolutely nothing to do with hurricane relief.

 

[InTheLight]

You do realize that bill was not a clean bill? It was bloated to death with pork that had absolutely nothing to do with hurricane relief.

Yep.


The Pork Filled and Expensive Non-Relief Sandy Relief Bill

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.”

Katie Pavlich - The Pork Filled and Expensive Non-Relief Sandy Relief Bill

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[HankD]

THE LESSON - Allow line Item Vetoes!

HankD