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Ah yes. Fifty Billion to help with the rebuilding of the states that were hit so hard with Sandy. And how many billions did we give to Haliburton and Cheney in Iraq?
50 billion for the NE
nothing but another stimulus
the obs lost after his re election had little to do with Sandy as NY actually added jobs and Pen and Ohio led the layoffs
You had no problem when bush ran the debt through the stratosphere....
Hypocrite you are....
I heard those states requested 80 billion $.
And there is another major disaster shaping up. If we are fortunate, we will get some major snow this winter, if not, another multi-billion dollar disaster on the way.
US Drought Monitor
Drought threatens to close Mississippi to barges
The river depth is 15 to 20 feet less than normal, now about 13 feet deep in many places. If it dips to around 9 feet, rock pinnacles at two locations make it difficult, if not impossible, for barges to pass. Hydrologists for the National Weather Service predict the Mississippi will reach the 9-foot mark by Dec. 9.
The situation worsened last week when the Army Corps of Engineers began reducing the outflow from an upper Missouri River dam in South Dakota, where a group of experts said Thursday that the worst U.S. drought in decades had intensified over the last week.
The flow is gradually being cut by more than two-thirds by Dec. 11 as part of an effort to ease the effects of the drought in the northern Missouri River basin.
Lawmakers from Mississippi River states are frustrated with the corps' action and even requested a presidential emergency declaration to overturn it. So far, the White House has not responded.
On Thursday, Army Assistant Secretary Jo-Ellen Darcy told Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois and some of his colleagues from Iowa and Minnesota that the corps would consider cutting the amount of water held back from the Mississippi.