09-01-2012, 10:42 PM
http://thedailybanter.com/2012/08/the-re...-the-debt/
'Yesterday, as delegates gathered in Tampa to nominate Mitt Romney for president in the name of less government, less spending and less interference in state matters, Louisiana’s Republican governor, Bobby Jindal, stepped up to a microphone and, with Hurricane Isaac on the way, not only demanded federal cash and assistance, but he also complained that the cash and assistance already offered by the president — the allegedly socialist wealth-redistributor president — wasn’t enough.
“We appreciate your response to our request and your approval,” Jindal wrote. “However, the state’s original request for federal assistance … included a request for reimbursement for all emergency protective measures. The federal declaration of emergency only provides for direct federal assistance.”
Jindal, like Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan, vocally opposed the stimulus but couldn’t wait to beg for a slice of the money. In Jindal’s case, he even gleefully posed for a photo opportunity with a gigantic sweepstakes-sized stimulus check.
You might recall Jindal’s flop-sweat inducing response to the president’s State of the Union address in which Jindal snarked about government spending on transportation and “volcano monitoring.” It slipped nicely into the on-going attack on the president as a “wealth redistributor” — a communist, a Marxist, a European socialist. But then, when the stimulus was passed, and yesterday when Louisiana faced another natural disaster, and when Jindal faced the obvious reality that states — any state — is incapable of mitigating and responding to natural disasters, he begged for wealth that’s been redistributed from New Yorkers, Californians, Oregonians and Hawaiians with their silly volcano monitoring.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-5750...isaac-aid/
"Under law, the federal government can provide direct assistance at 75 percent of federal funding, with states responsible for 25 percent of costs, though there are exceptions for small, impoverished communities."
'Yesterday, as delegates gathered in Tampa to nominate Mitt Romney for president in the name of less government, less spending and less interference in state matters, Louisiana’s Republican governor, Bobby Jindal, stepped up to a microphone and, with Hurricane Isaac on the way, not only demanded federal cash and assistance, but he also complained that the cash and assistance already offered by the president — the allegedly socialist wealth-redistributor president — wasn’t enough.
“We appreciate your response to our request and your approval,” Jindal wrote. “However, the state’s original request for federal assistance … included a request for reimbursement for all emergency protective measures. The federal declaration of emergency only provides for direct federal assistance.”
Jindal, like Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan, vocally opposed the stimulus but couldn’t wait to beg for a slice of the money. In Jindal’s case, he even gleefully posed for a photo opportunity with a gigantic sweepstakes-sized stimulus check.
You might recall Jindal’s flop-sweat inducing response to the president’s State of the Union address in which Jindal snarked about government spending on transportation and “volcano monitoring.” It slipped nicely into the on-going attack on the president as a “wealth redistributor” — a communist, a Marxist, a European socialist. But then, when the stimulus was passed, and yesterday when Louisiana faced another natural disaster, and when Jindal faced the obvious reality that states — any state — is incapable of mitigating and responding to natural disasters, he begged for wealth that’s been redistributed from New Yorkers, Californians, Oregonians and Hawaiians with their silly volcano monitoring.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-5750...isaac-aid/
"Under law, the federal government can provide direct assistance at 75 percent of federal funding, with states responsible for 25 percent of costs, though there are exceptions for small, impoverished communities."