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Topic: Senate approves $50.5 billion
in Superstorm Sandy aid |
Senate approves $50.5 billion
in Superstorm Sandy aid
Los Angeles Times, by Richard Simon
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Posted By:JoniTx, 1/28/2013 10:55:02 PM
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| WASHINGTON- Congress sent a a $50.5-billion relief bill to President Obama on Monday help the Northeast recover from Superstorm Sandy, ending a political furor over delays in the disaster aid. The measure cleared the Senate, 62-36. Its approval, after the president earlier this month signed a $9.7-billion flood insurance bill to help pay Sandy damage claims, would bring the relief package to more than $60 billion. "It was three months ago that Superstorm Sandy tore up the East Coast,’’ Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) told colleagues. "Not one day has passed since Sandy made landfall
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
King of all trolls, 1/28/2013 11:19:29 PM (No. 9145424)
Krugman´s printing press may run out of ink. Guess we can borrow that from the Chinese as well.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
tipover, 1/28/2013 11:23:30 PM (No. 9145427)
60 percent pork? Or more.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
tearza, 1/29/2013 12:41:11 AM (No. 9145496)
Where is this money coming from...Is it Monopoly Money ?? What is backing it....
Is the Federal Reserve hitting a few keys on their computer and creating 55 billion dollars and sending it over to the treasury to distribute....I´m spell bound how the system works when we are supposed to be 16 trillion dollars in debt but manage to keep coming up with more money.....Can anybody explain this to me....????
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Spidey, 1/29/2013 3:40:51 AM (No. 9145560)
A huge chunk of this money will be recycled into DNC accounts for 2014 and beyond.Who knows how many millions will be spent on consultants trying to figure out how to rebuild this craphole to make it hurricane resistant.
Maybe they´ll put the statue of liberty on stilts and change her face to match Hillary´s.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Judith, 1/29/2013 7:26:18 AM (No. 9145714)
I think we can all agree that if the republicans just go home and refuse their paychecks, our country could save some money. Which the dems will squander on some nonsense.
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