what the republicunts have in mind for disaster relief.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/30...tail=email
Fortunate for New Jersey that they did not have to risk recovery in an age when that mormon shitwit was president.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/30...tail=email
Quote:remember that Majority Leader Eric Cantor insisted last year that any increase in disaster aid funding had to come from cutting funds for equipping and training first responders by 40 percent. House Republicans nearly forced a government shutdown over disaster aid funding. They succeeded in forcing massive cuts to the program, passing a $2.65 billion bill for the disaster relief fund for the year, when the need is closer to $12 billion, annually. That's based on the average year, the average need. Hurricane Sandy is likely to blow that figure to smithereens.
Republicans have taken disaster relief hostage for the past two years, insisting like Mitt Romney that it's more appropriate for the states, already financially strapped and facing further cuts in federal aid, to take the lead in responding.
Like Mitt Romney, they pretend that it's about the deficit. They preach, like Romney did in a primary debate, that it's "immoral" to spend this money now and pass the debt on to future generations. They ignore the fact that it's at least as immoral to pass on to our children a crumbling and dysfunctional infrastructure that they'll have to figure out how to rebuild.
Fortunate for New Jersey that they did not have to risk recovery in an age when that mormon shitwit was president.
