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Obama budget does not include Port of Miami project funding
Miami Herald ^ | 2/14/11 | Lesley Clark

Posted on 02/15/2011 3:33:10 AM PST by SoFloFreeper

President Barack Obama’s budget plan on Monday was a mix of good and bad news for South Florida.

The bad news: An aggressive effort to secure federal funding to dredge the Port of Miami suffered a significant setback when Obama declined to put aside money for it. Local officials and the state’s South Florida congressional delegation had hoped to secure $75 million in the president’s 2012 budget proposal...

More bad news: The budget plan cuts by $300 million – or 7.5 percent -- the popular Community Development Block grants that many cities, including Miami, use for helping the poor.

(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: miami; obama; pork; port
LOL. The liberals in South Florida were all praising Dear Reader...crediting him with creating jobs. Now those jobs have gone *poof*. :)

Where is your god now, libs?

1 posted on 02/15/2011 3:33:17 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper; Joe Brower

florida news!


2 posted on 02/15/2011 3:33:55 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

LOL....so true.


3 posted on 02/15/2011 3:37:24 AM PST by rrrod (at home in Medellin Colombia)
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To: SoFloFreeper
Poor bastards....lol...Now they got to take the Bullet Train to the Bahamas!
4 posted on 02/15/2011 3:37:48 AM PST by M-cubed
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To: SoFloFreeper
...the popular Community Development Block grants that many cities, including Miami, use for helping the poor.

Huh? They need help for heating oil in Miami?

5 posted on 02/15/2011 3:38:06 AM PST by raybbr (Someone who invades another country is NOT an immigrant - illegal or otherwise.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

This is silly. If the Repubs agree to it, Obama will claim THEY cut it and the MSM won’t challenge him.


6 posted on 02/15/2011 3:41:18 AM PST by Squidster
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To: SoFloFreeper
...popular Community Development Block grants...

Gee, I wonder why they are so popular. /sarc

The nation is completely and totally broke. People have to learn how to get by on their own.

7 posted on 02/15/2011 3:55:12 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: SoFloFreeper
Obama at Andrews
8 posted on 02/15/2011 3:59:34 AM PST by BobP (The piss-stream media - Never to be watched again in my house)
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To: SoFloFreeper
Obama budget does not include Port of Miami project funding

Wouldn't that qualify as an earmark? If so, then in theory it would never get past the Republicans in the House anyway, right? With their 'no earmark' pledge?

9 posted on 02/15/2011 4:08:16 AM PST by K-Stater
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