Posted on 01/16/2013 7:32:09 AM PST by SeekAndFind
RE: $114,095,560.00 / 366,039,040 acres $.31 per acre
Still a good deal.
We have to remember this — that was when Alaska was totally WILDERNESS. Juneau, Anchorage, Fairbanks, etc. had ALMOST ZERO infrastructure, no oil drilling, no tourist spots, no highways, NOTHING.
I see how California will get out of its fiscal mess. They’ll wait for an earthquake and then get a trillion dollar relief package.
RE: focusing it all on New York and New Jersey as political payback.
As a New Yorker, I know that our state’s budget deficit is $2 Billion for 2012.
See here:
http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=711
Assuming NY gets HALF of this $25 Billion, they can close this gap with that money ( that means Taxpayers of OTHER STATES are helping NY close their deficit ), with plenty of cash top spare for Sandy relief.
With this, I see no reason why NY should have any more deficits in 2013. But who wants to bet that the deficit will be larger than ever in 2013?
After September 11, the federal government set aside $5 billion for victim´s families and agreed to spend over $21 billion to help New York recover
Add the new $50 billion to the money New York got after 9-11 and it has received over 70 BILLION additional dollars from the federal government since 9-11.
So basically... Tropical Storm Sandy supposedly inflicted over twice as much damage to New York and the surrounding areas than 9-11 ...
lol
right.
we are being robbed.
RE: we are being robbed.
Texas (among others) has been robbed. We (in NY) get the money :)
This is Obama’s world — REDISTRIBUTION.
Don’t worry, you’ll get it back if (God forbid) a hurricane strikes you. :)
Aid = 50% pork
Pork = kick backs
If only the fine repub-progressive Romney were elected everything would be peachy, right? We are all fooked.
Right on. The RINOS AGREE with this the democrats on most spending. Their political genius is the ability to hide this agreement from their base. Boehner probably would have preferred a $100 billion bill.
Republicans see a need for themselves as the straight guy in a comedy routine. There will always be a need for someone to demonize...Like Stalin’s Trotsky and Hitler’s Socialists (although they weren’t that different from the National Socialists “NaZi’s”).
And those calls to Boehner from Obama are about golf, they just tell us it's work related. /wing /nod
As long as Boehner stays Drunk Speaker of the House nothing good will come from it. They own him.
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