Anti-Sandy-relief GOP Oklahoma Senator: Aid for my state is “totally different” than Sandy

[UCmeNdc]

Far-right US Senator Jim Inhofe (R-OK) tried to explain today why it’s consistent for him to oppose the federal government paying for Hurricane Sandy disaster relief in New England, but why the government should pay for tornado disaster relief in Oklahoma.

New York and New Jersey voters do not vote in Oklahoma.




http://americablog.com/2013/05/inhofe-sandy-relief-tornado-different.html

[hollysmom]

1. I lost my place at the beach,. the help was so slow, they decided not to repair that location.

Now if funding was there to help the trailer park, I would still have a place and not lost the investment. hate these greedy red states, they would all die without the work and money from the blue states.

[pacalo]

2. His "pork-spending" excuse for denying a vote for Sandy relief is totally off base.

As for the $2 million slated for a new roof for the Smithsonian, the museums did have leaks during Hurricane Sandy & maintenance workers had to stack sand bags to keep it dry. I disagree with the eyebrow-raising about that request in The Atlantic Wire article on that. The Smithsonian is a national treasure & it deserves to be protected.

From The Atlantic Wire:

Among the "pork" cited by Heritage (and others, like the National Review):

-- $150 million for fisheries in Alaska damaged by the 2011 Japanese tsunami, which littered debris on Alaska's shoreline

-- $41 million to repair military bases damaged by Hurricane Sandy (including, controversially, Guantanamo Bay)

-- $2 million to fix an (apparently quite expensive) roof at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, D.C.

-- $13 billion for future flood preparations (that is, money that will not be spent on victims of Sandy but on preventing future, Sandy-scale disasters from occurring).