PredFan
Diamond Member
Pork passes again
This has got to stop
I don't think THIS version had the pork attached.
Its barebones, just to cover some inital costs.
As far as my opinion of it (disclaimer I am from NYC but suffered no damage except 17 days without cable TV or internet) I can see this as acceptable even from a fiscally conservative/federalist point of view. If you think of it as a form of insurance and cost control, as one area has issues related to disasters, the other areas of the country can pitch in to distribute the cost. Sooner or later the other regions would need the same help, and get help in return.
What had to go was the unrelated items that are added in as goodies. What we need is to ressurect the amendment providing for a line item veto. Hell I would take that even with Obama in the white house now, for the savings it would help later on.
As a fiscal Conservative, I have no beef about helping the victims of Hurricane Sandy. Sandy victims, not Alaska, not Washington, not NASA.