Posted on 03/11/2014 9:17:01 AM PDT by chessplayer
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama reined in funding for restoration of the Great Lakes in his budget released this week, spurring a backlash among environmentalists from Minnesota and a half dozen other states.
Obama's budget proposal for fiscal 2015 slashes $25 million from the current funding level for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, which has supported dozens of projects in Minnesota aimed at controlling and monitoring pollutants and preserving and restoring fish and wildlife habitats in Lake Superior.
The president's budget cuts another $430 million from the Clean Water State Revolving Fund, which helps communities repair wastewater infrastructure to prevent sewage runoff into the Great Lakes and the rivers and streams that lead into them.
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And then there’s the billion dollars for the Ukraine.
I’m still curious about what happened to Great Lakes Czar Cameron Davis and the $20 Billion he got to do the job. Its like he dropped off the map.
Obama has dumped billions of dollars into Chicago crony coffers one way or another.
How will the Great Lakes ever survive without Federal funding?
the idiots in Minnesota thought they’d get Obamacare for free, that they could agree with Obama to add more than a trillion in new government entitlement expenses and everything else the government does would be left alone - stupid
translation of what the article is about: stupid Liberal voters upset the benevolences they expect to come all from other’s pocket pooks and pet causes is going to hit theirs as well - oh, boo hoo, boo hoo
Idiots. We will see more and more of this over the years. “Entitlements” will eat all the cash at some point unless somethung is done. Glad it’s starting to hurt the goofballs who voted for this moron.
“But the president has been locked repeatedly in battles with Republicans who want to cut federal spending.”
What the Repubs want is NOT for Obama to cut the spending on the Great Lakes Initiative, but to chop off the millions of dollars on outrageous vacations.
I thought only Republicans did that.
Sounds like the lamestreamers are going to have to revise their rhetoric.
The Great Lakes defied Obama by freezing over in this era of global warming. They must be punished.
Too many Republican governors on the Great Lakes borders.
$25 million? That’s not even enough to keep Michelle on her various vacations this year.
How will the Great Lakes ever survive without Federal funding?
They won’t. But who gives a damn about clean water.
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