Peter King calls for donation cut-off to fellow Republicans over stalled Sandy aid bill

A top House Republican lashed out at party leaders Wednesday over a decision to end the session without a vote on aid for Superstorm Sandy victims, going so far as to urge constituents to stop donating to congressional Republicans.

"I'm saying anyone from New York and New Jersey who contributes one penny to congressional Republicans is out of their minds," Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., told Fox News. "What they did last night was put a knife in the back of New Yorkers and New Jerseyans."

I dare you to tell that to the firefighters and police whose homes and towns were wiped out completely in the storm.

I have friends and family on Long Island and New Jersey — good people, conservatives, many are veterans and have worked non-stop since they were teenagers. To call them whiners is an insulting lie. How would you handle your home being turned into a moldy pile of rubble, while you battle your insurance company trying to get the money they PROMISED when you paid in faithfully for years? All of your possessions ruined or washed away, your kids and wife and you hopping from shelter to hotel room to friends’ houses to... you would still be a stoic, self-satisfied know-it-all? Really?

Boehner was right about that. It is full of pork. Are you aware that people can still apply for assistance under the 9/11 recovery monies, and you don’t even have to be a NY resident, or have anything to do with NYC? THIS is why we are in a fiscal mess. The Sandy bill was chock full of this crap, too! The way we look at disaster assistance needs to be reorganized. This is stupidity at its very worst. And, we are paying through the teeth for it. We SHOULD be letting our representatives know that we want only the Sandy victims to be able to obtain any monies from this bill, so it needs to be based on their needs and not all the thousands who want to file a fraudulent claim.

RE: The same King who voted AGAINST aid after Katrina? Shocking.

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For those who want some reference regarding breathtaking waste and fraud after Hurricane Katrina, here is one article to read:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/27/washington/27katrina.html?pagewanted=all

‘Breathtaking’ Waste and Fraud in Hurricane Aid

EXCERPT:

Among the many superlatives associated with Hurricane Katrina can now be added this one: it produced one of the most extraordinary displays of scams, schemes and stupefying bureaucratic bungles in modern history, costing taxpayers up to $2 billion.

A hotel owner in Sugar Land, Tex., has been charged with submitting $232,000 in bills for phantom victims. And roughly 1,100 prison inmates across the Gulf Coast apparently collected more than $10 million in rental and disaster-relief assistance.

There are the bureaucrats who ordered nearly half a billion dollars worth of mobile homes that are still empty, and renovations for a shelter at a former Alabama Army base that cost about $416,000 per evacuee.

And there is the Illinois woman who tried to collect federal benefits by claiming she watched her two daughters drown in the rising New Orleans waters. In fact, prosecutors say, the children did not exist.

The tally of ignoble acts linked to Hurricane Katrina, pulled together by The New York Times from government audits, criminal prosecutions and Congressional investigations, could rise because the inquiries are under way. Even in Washington, a city accustomed to government bloat, the numbers are generating amazement.

“The blatant fraud, the audacity of the schemes, the scale of the waste — it is just breathtaking,” said Senator Susan Collins, Republican of Maine, and chairwoman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

Such an outcome was feared soon after Congress passed the initial hurricane relief package, as officials at the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the American Red Cross acknowledged that their systems were overwhelmed and tried to create new ones on the fly.

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How many of us wanna bet that we DON’T REALLY NEED $60 Billion dollars for Sandy Relief? I bet half of that number would suffice.

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