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 ...
Where is your god now, libs?
florida news!
LOL....so true.
Huh? They need help for heating oil in Miami?
This is silly. If the Repubs agree to it, Obama will claim THEY cut it and the MSM won’t challenge him.
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.
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?
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