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Why We Can't Forget That Oklahoma's Senators Voted Against Sandy Relief
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| 5/21/2013
| Alexander Abad-Santos
Posted on 05/21/2013 12:45:54 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
Maybe it was to ensure they still have some for their own disasters.
Geesh, I tire of this federal welfare. Can’t anyone take care of themselves anymore?
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posted on
05/21/2013 1:01:14 PM PDT
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
To: babble-on
>> You have a problem with Arabo-Hispanics?
Giving second billing to the Romans, are you?
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posted on
05/21/2013 1:03:33 PM PDT
by
Gene Eric
(The Palin Doctrine.)
To: nickcarraway
Andy why should they NOT have voted for Sandy relief? The relief bill was loaded with PORK for pet projects in other states that were never even in Sandy’s path!
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posted on
05/21/2013 1:06:16 PM PDT
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(When someone burns a cross on your lawn, the best firehose is an AK-47.)
To: nickcarraway
We might also remember that the Sandy relief bill was a giant pork fest with huge amounts of spending for things all over the country thrown in
To: kjam22
God bless you and your neighbors. Frankly, I don’t object to federal monies to help communities struck by natural disasters. Of all the wasteful federal spending out there, disaster relief is a small amount of money that usually does some good. I respect your self-reliant attitude.
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posted on
05/21/2013 1:07:00 PM PDT
by
3Fingas
(Sons and Daughters of Freedom, Committee of Correspondence)
To: massgopguy
Maybe the OK senators couldnt forget that Obama denied them any Federal assistance when the floods hit. Wait! What?...
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posted on
05/21/2013 1:08:42 PM PDT
by
Dogbert41
(Thy Kingdom come!)
To: nickcarraway
The Federal government has no authority to be in the business of disaster relief. Were we freed from FEMA, people would have to purchase adequate insurance and would have more available for more effective charities that don't pose a risk to our liberty. The cost of that insurance would preclude many from assuming unacceptable risks.
Good systems prevent problems.
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posted on
05/21/2013 1:08:47 PM PDT
by
Carry_Okie
(An economy is not a zero-sum game, but politics usually is.)
To: thorvaldr
This is all about the fact that no county in OK went for Obama in 08 or 12.
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posted on
05/21/2013 1:10:27 PM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: G Larry
You might keep in mind that the Govs in the Sandy case, inflated their $10B in damages to a $60B political payoff, and OK only asks for what it needs. It was actually congress who larded up the Sandy relief, adding money for a lot of non-Sandy related spending. Anyone who doesn't think this will also happen for any relief package for Oklahoma is only kidding themself.
To: Carry_Okie
Great post. Another area where the fedgov has over-ridden local govts and the private sector.
Whenever we have a river flood here in Indiana the news is full of peeps crying about their underwater house and where is FEMA?
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posted on
05/21/2013 1:11:54 PM PDT
by
nascarnation
(Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Yeah! I need a new roof and I have ants under my house. Oh, and the wind is blowing. Where’s my check?
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posted on
05/21/2013 1:11:56 PM PDT
by
beelzepug
(Telling other people they need to die is a good way to get your own lamp blown out.)
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Andy why should they NOT have voted for Sandy relief? The relief bill was loaded with PORK for pet projects in other states that were never even in Sandys path! So when the same thing happens to any Oklahoma relief package, will they also vote against that on principle?
To: nickcarraway
It was not a relief bill, it was a slush fund bill.
To: nickcarraway
Coburn and Inhofe both supported funding Sandy relief for the ACTUAL estimated amount: $7 billion. THAT’S ALL that was required, in addition to fully funding the insurance program ($3.2 billion). The entire remainder of $49.5 billion was PORK. But weak-kneed and N.E. Republicans knuckled under to RINOs like Crispy Creme Christie, and caved.
To: nickcarraway
“the Disaster Relief Appropriations Act that eventually sent $50.5 billion in relief to victims of Hurricane Sandy”
Except that it didn’t. Instead it was a slush fund for Democrat operations and favorites.
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posted on
05/21/2013 1:21:46 PM PDT
by
CSM
(Keeper of the Dave Ramsey Ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
To: nickcarraway
The “aid” always goes to fellow members of the big-government/big-corporate criminal complex.
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posted on
05/21/2013 1:22:09 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("Somebody has to be courageous enough to stand up to the bullies." --Dr. Ben Carson)
To: left that other site
Not Holder’s people in OK.
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posted on
05/21/2013 1:22:55 PM PDT
by
ealgeone
(obama, border)
To: nickcarraway
Folks ready for secession yet?
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posted on
05/21/2013 1:24:15 PM PDT
by
Paine in the Neck
(Socialism consumes everything. Bolshies' gonna bolsh.)
To: nickcarraway
What goes around comes around. They didn’t feel compassion for me; I can only do the same. Not one penny from me.
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posted on
05/21/2013 1:26:04 PM PDT
by
New Jersey Realist
(America: home of the free because of the brave)
To: nickcarraway
Why We Can't Forget That Oklahoma's Senators Voted Against Sandy ReliefThat does not mean that charitable Sandy donations did not come from Oklahomans; and it does not persuade me to withhold tornado relief donations to Oklahoma.
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posted on
05/21/2013 1:27:06 PM PDT
by
JimRed
(Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed &water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW & FOREVER!)
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