Senators: Hurricane Aid Is Being Blocked

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[frogjerk]

I'm wondering how much pro-abortion "health care" services are included in this "aid"?

[frogjerk]

They are pledging strong oversight that includes a review of no-bid contracts and close scrutiny of federal employees who now enjoy a $250,000 -- rather than a $2,500 -- purchase limit for Katrina-related expenses on their government-issued credit cards.

$250,000 limits on Credit cards?!?!?!?

[Always Right]

Yesterday, the Dems bitch about no-bid contract awards which helps speed up relief spending, now they bitch about roadblocks to spending. Which is it????

[stuartcr]

Why?

[lormand]

Gargantuan Government fighting over Gargantuan Government

[frogjerk]

Why?

Why what?

[Snoopers-868th]

Lawmakers were turning their attention to the lucrative Katrina contracts.

And what companies to buy stock in.

[CindyDawg]

I'm wondering how many of those that need help are real and not just a name on paper.

[caisson71]

The Dims want a C-130 to fly over New Orleans and drop $1,000 bills out of the plane - only in black neighborhoods.

[RicocheT]

Maybe those ghost New Orleans cops can get ghost Medicare payment checks as the Las Vegas vacations have tired them out to the point of exhaustion.

[Snoopers-868th]

I am just not understanding. People who were insured will be compensated accordingly. People who were not insured will also be compensated accordingly. People living in NO were living somewhere and on some form of money. New unemployment benefits have been implemented and I suppose the government is still cutting checks. What is the money needed for? There was tons of money in charity.

Does the federal government put the electricity, phone system, etc in every city? What is the city's obligation to its residents regarding infrastructure? Man, I did not know just how stupid I was.

[Sometimes A River]

Money is in inexhaustable supply in DC, didn't you know that?

[newfrpr04]

RE: health care..Isn't half of the state on welfare already
Rita should have just carved NO out to sea. Where did all the state resources go. It's amazing , LA thinks they are the only state in need. LA gov and mayor continue to blame others for their lack of leadership

[Pessimist]

"Blanco said 40 percent of Louisiana's businesses were lost or damaged in the storm"

That figure sounds a little hard to believe...

[uncitizen]

"Bush administration raised objections to provisions that would extend Medicaid coverage to thousands upon thousands of adults who otherwise would be uninsured"

This is a very unprofessional way for a journalist to phrase the amount of people involved. Is it tens of thousands? hundreds of thousands?

[stuartcr]

Why are you introducing abortion stuff, when it wasn't mentioned anywhere?

[Pessimist]

"$250,000 limits on Credit cards?!?!?!?"

Unbelieveable, isn't it? I wonder how much of that $ is already gone.

[frogjerk]

When so much money is available, it draws people of less than perfect character," H. Walker Feaster, inspector general of the Federal Communications Commission, said

[Wuli]

"We can work with everybody, including the administration, or against them, and I'm prepared to go either way," said Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss. "But I'm going to look after our people first."

Then why isn't Mr. Lott down in old Miss telling it's legislature to raise Missippi taxes to help their Katrina victims.?

Are not the people and businesses of Mississippi compassionate toward their own? Or, are they not only not compassionate but greedy as well. I think Lott is currently sounding more like KKK Byrd, who has the most federally funded monuments to his name in his home state.

[Jim_Curtis]

"Blanco said 40 percent of Louisiana's businesses were lost or damaged in the storm" That figure sounds a little hard to believe...

Maybe it includes the crack dealers.