GOP governor calls for more government spending

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State and federal officials should expand the system to protect low-lying areas throughout Louisiana, Governor Bobby Jindal said.






Jindal, who has criticized Barack Obama for excessive spending, has used the occasion of the storm to press for federal money...





The governor wrote Obama a letter saying the storm requires “full federal assistance...”




http://www.businessweek.com/news/20...sion-of-levee-system-that-guarded-new-orleans

 

[Mott the Hoople]

He's right. It does.

 

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He's right. It does.

But shouldn't any federal aid be balanced with a spending cut?

 

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But shouldn't any federal aid be balanced with a spending cut?

Work on the cuts later, and get the assistance to the people who need it now.

 

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Work on the cuts later, and get the assistance to the people who need it now.

There should be plenty of money — some $1.5 billion — in federal disaster aid coffers, thanks, in part, to a new system that budgets help for victims of hurricanes, tornadoes and floods before they occur.



It's a system that Paul Ryan, the Republican nominee-to-be for vice president, had hoped to scrap as a way to make his House GOP budget look smaller by about $10 billion a year.



The rise to power of tea party Republicans contributed to delays in providing disaster money last year.



The government's chief disaster fund almost ran dry, thanks to foot-dragging by the White House and demands by tea party House Republicans that disaster aid be partly "paid for" with cuts to programs that Obama favored.



It is kind of ironic that the storm was at some point headed towards Tampa during their convention. That would have been the irony of all ironies for this storm to hit Tampa when the Republicans were the ones saying 'we need to find offsets'.



Ryan's point of view might still prevail if Mitt Romney defeats Obama in November.



What Ryan proposes is that when disaster strikes, lawmakers scour the rest of the budget for savings to pay for rebuilding homes, roads and schools and helping small businesses.



Put another way, instead of being an excuse to increase spending, disasters would offer an opportunity to make further cuts elsewhere in the government.



http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120828/NEWS/120829732/-1/SITEMAP

 

[RockX]

LOL

"Jindal, who has criticized Barack Obama for excessive spending."

He is being too kind, the fucktard put us 5 trillion dollars in debt and his term is not even over.

 

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LOL "Jindal, who has criticized Barack Obama for excessive spending." He is being too kind, the fucktard put us 5 trillion dollars in debt and his term is not even over.

So the fact that the ostensibly budget-cutting Republican is asking Obama to spend more doesn't seem hypocritical to you?

State and federal officials should expand the system to protect low-lying areas throughout Louisiana, Governor Bobby Jindal said. Jindal, who has criticized Barack Obama for excessive spending, has used the occasion of the storm to press for federal money...The governor wrote Obama a letter saying the storm requires “full federal assistance...”
http://www.businessweek.com/news/20...sion-of-levee-system-that-guarded-new-orleans