Lyn’ Ted. Need we say more about this opportunistic liar? Okay, I will.
His father killed Kennedy. He was in cahoots with the Cubans. Fact.
bears repeating:
Isaiah Thomas • 17 hours ago
Here’s just some of Hurricane Sandy Emergency Relief Pork
The pork-barrel feast includes more than $8 million to buy cars and equipment for the Homeland Security and Justice departments. It also includes:
A whopping $150 million for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to dole out to fisheries in Alaska
$2 million for the Smithsonian Institution to repair museum roofs in DC.
An eye-popping $13 billion would go to “mitigation” projects to prepare for future storms.
Other big-ticket items in the bill include $207 million for the VA Manhattan Medical Center;
$41 million to fix up eight military bases along the storm’s path, including Guantanamo Bay, Cuba;
$4 million for repairs at Kennedy Space Center in Florida;
$3.3 million for the Plum Island Animal Disease Center and
$1.1 million to repair national cemeteries.
$58.8 million for forest restoration on private land.
$197 million “to… protect coastal ecosystems and habitat impacted by Hurricane Sandy.”
$10.78 billion for public transportation, most of which is allocated to future construction and improvements, not disaster relief.
$17 billion for wasteful Community Development Block Grants (CDBG), a program that has become notorious for its use as a backdoor earmark program.
Maybe many of these are justified causes but they are not Sandy relief. So who’s lying?
Also:
ErichVonZipper • 17 hours ago
The headline from the New York Post article dated Dec. 15, 2012 — “Obama Sandy aid bill filled with holiday goodies unrelated to storm damage” - The article details much of the overspending that Cruz complained of in that bill. There are similar article[s] from the Daily Mail, Fox News, WaPo and others, detailing the pork included in that bill. Cruz and the other senators were right in objecting to the original $60 billion appropriation bill.