Posted on 10/26/2013 11:00:53 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
A year after Superstorm Sandy wreaked havoc across the eastern United States, only a fraction of the aid money earmarked for recovery has been used, in what some claim is a painfully slow and opaque process.
Only $5.2 billion of the pledged $47.9 billion had been tapped by cities and states by the end of August, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. And tracking those funds has been complicated, lawmakers said.
"Transparency is woefully lacking. We don't know where the money is. We know people have been approved for grants, but the money has not been distributed," said New Jersey Assemblywoman L. Grace Spencer, chair of the environment committee.
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Why is any federal aid going to this? This is a job for the state, county, city, neighborhoods, churches and families.
So Obama can pocket the money.
Remember all the whiners on TV about money? Now where are they?
Typical blue states.
Since Bush was pilloried over the alleged bad federal response to Katrina, why is Obama NOT similarly being pilloried over the bad federal response to Sandy????
Or, is this a case in which the liberals decide that only Republicans are to be lambasted when we politicize natural disasters????
I don’t see how the liberals got away with politicizing Katrina against Bush. The governor of Louisiana at the time was Democrat, as was Mayor Ray “Chocolate City” Nagin. Yet in spite of these local officials being Democrats, it was a Republican president who was blamed.
For good or bad.
Sure, Sandy has its share of imagery. But, New Orleans and the surrounding area was already zombie land. The Hurricane just made it worse.
That just means that there wasn’t much need for federal money in the first place. Federal disaster management is way over-rated.
Traditionally, cities, counties, states do their own with the feds in the background giving assistance as requested. No one wants to be pilloried like Bush was so now they throw money at whatever happens. But the money doesn’t get spent on the disaster anyway.
Contrast Gov. Christie’s response to Sandy (both before & after the storm) to that in Louisiana; granted, he may have learned from Katrina, but he made sure everybody knew that some bad sh!t was coming.
New Orleans is still a mess; I don’t think anyone has been clear to former residents that many areas will never be rebuilt (they’re uninsurable). NJ hasn’t completely recovered, but they’ve come a long way in a year.
Fixed.
Moochelle’s buddy has disbursed about ONE PERCENT of her filthy loot.
Maybe she, too, will have her own Africa trip for $100 million...?
BO THE DOG HAD HIS OWN OSPREY TILT ROTAR AIRCRAFT...!!
I wonder what all the doctors that are being engulfed with bammycare are thinking when they see things like this?
They just did not get the memo. “You White, That old school, you aint got nuthin comin from the white hut, so just move along cracka.” They did get to watch the “dancin with the Cristy Menstrals as the pickpockets took their nads.
Perhaps something along these lines?
Company behind Obamacare website in charge of nearly $2 billion in Sandy relief
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3083929/posts
A year after Superstorm Sandy, federal aid trickles in
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3083967/posts
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Tell that to the Gov of NJ’s wife who likes to ask the public for donations on tv ads. Ask her where the money is that should go to the people?
Think it’s time to ask Chris Christie? He admitted that he embraced Obama for the big bucks he got out of it. Basically betraying his party and his country for an empty promise from Obama. He can’t be Pres.
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