Bush to recycle $20 bln in Katrina funds: sources

[sabra]

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=1256106

Bush to recycle $20 bln in Katrina funds: sources

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration is expected to ask Congress on Friday to take $15 billion to $20 billion in existing emergency funds to pay for the next round of Gulf Coast hurricane rebuilding, U.S. Senate sources said on Thursday.

"It will be all reprogramming of the unspent funds … not really new funds," said one Senate source, who asked not to be identified. The source said the White House is not expected to request any additional hurricane rebuilding money until sometime next spring.

Congress would have to redirect the existing money so it can be used for federal infrastructure projects, such as rebuilding roads and bridges, overhauling flood-protection levees or rebuilding military bases.

In the weeks following the late August destruction in Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi caused by Hurricane Katrina, Congress approved $62.3 billion in emergency aid.

[ComerPerro]

1. "Fuck N.O., we gotta help my brother's state"

Hes running for president in 08, afterall.

[anotherdrew]

2. how about helping counties and cities meet their payroll?

They can't do anything right.

[firefox]

3. Pass the loot out in Florida you say

Are they going to pay truckers $900 a day to melt ice? USG- the protection racket is now on to another racket- the disaster racket. It must really be great to be an enabler for the fascists.

[HereSince1628]

4. Does it fit in a bathtub yet?

This hurricane season has turned into a tremendous opportunity for the conservatives to cut off funding to government programs that they dislike.

The conservatives have apparently given up on the United States. They treat it like a slum-lord determined not to put any more money into their collapsing buildings but always looking to milk a profit out of tenants.

[loudsue]

5. That is the PERFECT new bumper-sticker saying!!!!

"The conservatives have apparently given up on the United States. They treat it like a slum-lord determined not to put any more money into their collapsing buildings but always looking to milk a profit out of tenants."

Conservatives: The Slum-Lords of the USA.
Don't fix it -- just take the rent and run.


:kick::kick::kick:

[KamaAina]

6. A little long for a bumpersticker, but it'd make a nice sig line

assuming things ever quiet down enough around here that we have those again!

[underpants]

8. The Andrea Yates school of governing

sorry I could have resisted but I didn't want to.

[meganmonkey]

7. Huh! Bush recycles? I guess that's better than throwing the money away

:shrug:

[MADem]

9. This clearly has something to do with the FY cycle

OLD FY ended Sep 30/new FY started 01 OCT.

That said, it might be interesting to see what the allocations were initially, and what they will morph into in this iteration.

[MGKrebs]

10. Conservation (recycling) is so 1970's.

Uncle Dick must not have had any input into this decision.