NDAA Signed Into Law By Obama

[Byng]

Perhaps it is up to you to prove me wrong and I did not get my news from Fox. Funny that you did.

Fox News, the most conservative of channels, whether you watch it or not can't find any non-Sandy related pork in the Bill Mom. So as I said, seeing you have read the Bill and found this non-Sandy related Pork, don't be shy and tell us lessor mortals. Perhaps Fox news would like a call as well because they have not been able to find what you have found? Have you been reading that French Magazine again?

[Mom49of4]

Byng, I did not get my information from Fox. There is much in the bill that has nothing to do with the storm named Sandy.

[flyboy56]

Here is the list

•$2 million to repair damage to the roofs of museums in Washington, D.C., while many in Hurricane Sandy’s path still have no roof over their own heads.

•$150 million for fisheries as far away from the storm’s path as Alaska.

•$125 million for the Department of Agriculture’s Emergency Watershed Protection program, which helps restore watersheds damaged by wildfires and drought.

•$20 million for a nationwide Water Resources Priorities Study.

•$15 million for NASA facilities, though NASA itself has called its damage from the hurricane ‘minimal.’

•$50 million in subsidies for tree planting on private properties.

•$336 million for taxpayer-supported AMTRAK without any detailed plan for how the money will be spent.

•$5.3 billion for the Army Corps of Engineers – more than the Corps’ annual budget – with no statement of priorities about how to spend the money.

•$12.9 billion for future disaster mitigation activities and studies, without identifying a single way to pay for it.

http://www.politisite.com/2013/01/02...relief-package

[Byng]

Byng, I did not get my information from Fox. There is much in the bill that has nothing to do with the storm named Sandy.

Just as I thought, you have no idea what you are talking about, again!

[Mom49of4]

Nor do you for that matter.

[Byng]

Here is the list

•$2 million to repair damage to the roofs of museums in Washington, D.C., while many in Hurricane Sandy’s path still have no roof over their own heads.

•$150 million for fisheries as far away from the storm’s path as Alaska.

•$125 million for the Department of Agriculture’s Emergency Watershed Protection program, which helps restore watersheds damaged by wildfires and drought.

•$20 million for a nationwide Water Resources Priorities Study.

•$15 million for NASA facilities, though NASA itself has called its damage from the hurricane ‘minimal.’

•$50 million in subsidies for tree planting on private properties.

•$336 million for taxpayer-supported AMTRAK without any detailed plan for how the money will be spent.

•$5.3 billion for the Army Corps of Engineers – more than the Corps’ annual budget – with no statement of priorities about how to spend the money.

•$12.9 billion for future disaster mitigation activities and studies, without identifying a single way to pay for it.

http://www.politisite.com/2013/01/02...relief-package

I don't see anything non-storm related in that list Flyboy...........do you?

[Mom49of4]

Here is the list

•$2 million to repair damage to the roofs of museums in Washington, D.C., while many in Hurricane Sandy’s path still have no roof over their own heads.

•$150 million for fisheries as far away from the storm’s path as Alaska.

•$125 million for the Department of Agriculture’s Emergency Watershed Protection program, which helps restore watersheds damaged by wildfires and drought.

•$20 million for a nationwide Water Resources Priorities Study.

•$15 million for NASA facilities, though NASA itself has called its damage from the hurricane ‘minimal.’

•$50 million in subsidies for tree planting on private properties.

•$336 million for taxpayer-supported AMTRAK without any detailed plan for how the money will be spent.

•$5.3 billion for the Army Corps of Engineers – more than the Corps’ annual budget – with no statement of priorities about how to spend the money.

•$12.9 billion for future disaster mitigation activities and studies, without identifying a single way to pay for it.

http://www.politisite.com/2013/01/02...relief-package

Mayor Bloomberg blames pork and NOT Boehner. Beside what does Alaska have to do with the Sandy bill?

[Byng]

Mayor Bloomberg blames pork and NOT Boehner. Beside what does Alaska have to do with the Sandy bill?

If you had really read the bill Mom you would have known that the $150m was for damage to "all" of the fishing industry period from the storm!

[flyboy56]

I don't see anything non-storm related in that list Flyboy...........do you?

That's just the pork. Add it up. It only comes to 18.5 Billion. The bill is $60.4B.

[Byng]

That's just the pork. Add it up. It only comes to 18.5 Billion. The bill is $60.1B.

All storm related my friend, you can rest assured that if FOX News can't find it, neither will you or Mom!

[Byng]

..................Hey Mom, you might be able to make your self some pocket money if you call Fox News with what you have found seeing that you are too shy or embarrassed to tell the board. I'm sure they (Fox) will be really glad to hear from you seeing they have spent all day searching the bill and have come up with nothing!

[flyboy56]

Only 9.7B has actually been authorized with an additional 51B to be approved by January 15. Who says your information is correct Byng?

[Byng]

Only 9.7B has actually been authorized with an additional 51B to be approved by January 15. Who says your information is correct Byng?

FOX News, the most conservative of all news channels that have been reading the Bill line for line to find SOMETHING/ANYTHING they can use to embarrass the Democrats in general and the President in particular!

[flyboy56]

FOX News, the most conservative of all news channels that have been reading the Bill line for line to find SOMETHING/ANYTHING they can use to embarrass the Democrats in general and the President in particular!

At this point we should all be looking at something to embarrass Congress for over spending.

[Byng]

At this point we should all be looking at something to embarrass Congress for over spending.

Living at the shore like you do, I find nothing political or embarrassing about the Federal Government coming to the aid of disaster victims.

What I find totally diabolical is the the Bush Administration conducting two decade long unnecessary and unpaid for wars that got us into this mess in the first place, on the backs of dead young Americans by the thousands and maimed Americans by the tens of thousands.

[flyboy56]

Living at the shore like you do, I find nothing political or embarrassing about the Federal Government coming to the aid of disaster victims.

What I find totally diabolical is the the Bush Administration conducting two decade long unnecessary and unpaid for wars that got us into this mess in the first place, on the backs of dead young Americans by the thousands and maimed Americans by the tens of thousands.

I know the risk involved with living near the shore and other than help from FEMA, I don't expect anything else. I do have insurance and my wife and I can be packed and out of here in a moments notice if the tsunami warning is sounded.

I agree with you on the war with Iraq, but what should we have done with Al Qaeda after 9/11? I believe Afghanistan was necessary. The world was watching, especially the terrorist groups to see how we would handle it. Doing nothing would have embolden them. Taxes should have been raised to pay for it though. And for the young dead Americans the military is all volunteer and everyone knows the military is trained to fight and kill or be killed. You should know that. And now a US Army brigade is going into Africa early next year to track down and fight Al Qaeda groups. War will never end for the US as long as we are the world's police. But if not us then who?

[Byng]

I know the risk involved with living near the shore and other than help from FEMA, I don't expect anything else. I do have insurance and my wife and I can be packed and out of here in a moments notice if the tsunami warning is sounded.

I agree with you on the war with Iraq, but what should we have done with Al Qaeda after 9/11? I believe Afghanistan was necessary. The world was watching, especially the terrorist groups to see how we would handle it. Doing nothing would have embolden them. Taxes should have been raised to pay for it though. And for the young dead Americans the military is all volunteer and everyone knows the military is trained to fight and kill or be killed. You should know that. And now a US Army brigade is going into Africa early next year to track down and fight Al Qaeda groups. War will never end for the US as long as we are the world's police. But if not us then who?

I'm not going to hijack a Sprightly thread to re-fight the Afghan war, but suffice to say that we should have been in and out of Afghanistan in 3 months, a year tops!

[flyboy56]

I'm not going to hijack a Sprightly thread to re-fight the Afghan war, but suffice to say that we should have been in and out of Afghanistan in 3 months, a year tops!

I concur.