The Infidel
EVIL CONSERVATIVE
There's millions of dollars that are earmarked for States that weren't even affected by Sandy, Vast...the majority of that money going to buy the votes of Republican Senators in States like Miss., Ala. and Texas. Trust me, I'm not saying some members of the GOP are just as guilty of this as Democrats. I hold them in even more contempt than their counterparts because they are "supposed" to be the fiscally responsible party and they are not!!!
You really couldn't find pork?
Examples of the billions slated to go other than those effected in New Jersey and Staten Island:
$28 billion for future "disaster-mitigation" projects.
$100 million for the repair of all 265 Head Start centers around the country.
$8 million (+) to buy cars and equipment for the Homeland Security and Justice departments.
$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 Washington, D.C.
$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.
$1.1 million to repair national cemeteries.
Finally, let's say everything you mentioned was in fact "pork", which is clearly not the case, but let's say it was.
Discounting, of course, the mitigation of future disasters, which clearly can not be included in any consideration of what is pork in this case.
That would be a total of:
$513 million dollars, out of 60 billion dollars or less than 1% of the whole, which is a hell of a lot less than the pork that was included in the Katrina relief aid, which was passed by the Republican-controlled Congress of the time in 10 days.
Of course, the damage from Katrina was in the South, a Republican stronghold, so they had no problem at all with any of THAT pork.
Check your math....
That is all.