Sandy victim Scott McGrath who spoke directly to Obama right after the hurricane hammered Obama today saying that he’s a phony and a ‘straight out liar’. He said it’s been 2 months now and that no red tape has been cut.
He also says that even though they need the aid money from Congress, they shouldn’t lard it up with pork because tax payers will have to pay for it down the road. Love hearing that, especially from a Sandy victim. Also, he said Chuck Schumer is full of it after lambasting Republicans for not passing it with all the pork in it. This guy needs his own show!
Quote: Eglman wrote in post #1Sandy victim Scott McGrath who spoke directly to Obama right after the hurricane hammered Obama today saying that he’s a phony and a ‘straight out liar’. He said it’s been 2 months now and that no red tape has been cut.
He also says that even though they need the aid money from Congress, they shouldn’t lard it up with pork because tax payers will have to pay for it down the road. Love hearing that, especially from a Sandy victim. Also, he said Chuck Schumer is full of it after lambasting Republicans for not passing it with all the pork in it. This guy needs his own show!
Quote: Justme wrote in post #3I hope this porkfilled Sandy farce also wakes up NJ voters to CC bs too.
Interestingly - not so much. I hear a lot of 'i know how you feel about Christies but ".....". Congress and Obama are getting the blame fore the pork.
I suspect that Christie's initial response, especially compared to the response in NY, was eminently practical.
I'm no fan of his, but his and his crew did a great job. Christie updated the public, initially about twice a day, was honest about the extensive damage, acknowledged people's frustrations, stressed x done but we still need y, allowed the state police and national guard to patrol armed to prevent looting, suspended regs to ensure enough gas and heating oil would be available when electricity was restored, honestly said he didn't know when he didn't know. He did simple things like extending time frame to renew auto registration and bet inspection.
FYI I was just reading an article by Denninger that lays out the various aspects of the Sandy bill:
ZitatThere are two parts to the Sandy issue. The first one is easy -- about $8 billion in appropriations that will fund NFIP insurance policies already written and paid in, for which people now want to collect . . . But -- the second half of this so-called "relief", some $60 billion, is only about half going to Sandy "victims." And I use "victims" in quotes because those who decided not to insure against these losses have zero right to claim anything from the government at all. . . . of the $60 billion nearly half has exactly nothing to do with Sandy. There are hundreds of millions in allocations for programs in Alaska, for example, which has exactly nothing to do with the storm. Then there's over $20 billion for various liberal "advocacy" programs which have nothing to do with the storm either..
Scott McGrath is right. We need honest people in our government. Our president is a liar. And the middle class does need to stick together. I think he is a man who has been screwed over and he didn't deserve it. I also think that he is a man who we haven't heard the end of. I don't know that he will be politically active in his life. But he may be a person that others will listen to in the future. God bless him and his family.
Orthodoxy SUCKS.
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them."- Galileo Galilei