Hurricane Sandy 'Pork'

[kdfwr911]

NOTE; I haven't ran this through Snoops to verify it, but it sounds about par for the course.



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? Pure Pork!
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>$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.
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>How does any of this have anything to do with immediate emergency relief for the victims of Hurricane Sandy?
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>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.
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>These Senators don't care about the victims of Sandy, it's all just business as usual.

[re3too]

Frosts my nonexistent balls!