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deminks

(11,017 posts) Wed Jan 2, 2013, 08:39 PM Jan 2013

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You can squeeze in $205 bil for corporate welfare, but not 60 bil for emergency relief? Really?

Cry me a river, GOPers. Pork is Pork.

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/01/eight-corporate-subsidies-in-the-fiscal-cliff-bill-from-goldman-sachs-to-disney-to-nascar.html

So, the fiscal cliff bill was full of corporate pork. But that was ok, part of the "deal." But the welfare of real, suffering Americans has to be a "clean bill." Really?

http://thehill.com/video/house/275235-rep-issa-defends-speaker-boehner-for-halting-sandy-relief-vote-

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You can squeeze in $205 bil for corporate welfare, but not 60 bil for emergency relief? Really? (Original Post) deminks Jan 2013 OP

Question: Katrina displaced 10 times as many people as sandy and way more peopled died rainy Jan 2013 #1

rainy

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1. Question: Katrina displaced 10 times as many people as sandy and way more peopled died

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Wed Jan 2, 2013, 09:04 PM

Jan 2013

But the dollars in aid request are equilivant?

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