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Cantor: No Disaster Relief Funding For Hurricane Irene Without Budget Cuts
Despite the devastation caused by Hurricane Irene this weekend, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) today stood by his call that no more money be allocated for disaster relief unless it is offset by spending cuts elsewhere. The Washington Post reported this morning that FEMA will need more money than it currently has to deal with the storm’s aftermath and is already diverting funds from other recent disasters to deal with the hurricane, but Cantor’s comments suggest Republicans won’t authorize more funds without a fight.
Cantor took the position following the tornadoes that devastated Joplin, Missouri and elsewhere in the spring and summer, and after last week’s earthquake, the epicenter for which was in his district, but the hurricane’s level of destruction is far beyond that of those disasters. Still, Cantor told Fox News that while “we’re going to find the money,” “we’re just going to need to make sure that there are savings elsewhere to do so.”
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Cantor referred a bill the Republican-controlled House passed that approves $1 billion in disaster relief, which was financed by a $1.5 billion cut from loan program to encourage the production of fuel-efficient vehicles. But the need in the wake of the hurricane will likely greatly surpass $1 billion, and that spending package was supposed to be used for tornado recovery efforts, for which several hundred million dollars has already been outlayed.
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Show AllRepublicans are just creepy. And people actually voted for these loons?
IMO FEMA is creepy being under fatherland security. If we were smart we would be pushing for better funded search and rescue in our local communities and telling FEMA who set up formaldehyde filled trailers for FEMA victims to fuck off!
FEMA is more about policing and shooting people (who they will label looters) looking for food after disasters than search and rescue.
Right, let's cut the budget for supporting the Zionist Regime.
And no earthquake relief for the North Anna reactors or storm relief for Virgina either.
Who is this "Cantor?" Isn't he the guy who gets to retire with more than a quarter million dollars of taxpayer's money every year for life? No wonder Eric Avarice wants his tax cuts.
Them Repugs will blackmail the victims of the hurricane!
What a dick. Just cut everything going into his district.
You took the words right out of my mouth. Of course, if the asshole had a beachfront house that happened to get submerged by the storm surge, you can bet the government could cough up the money to replace his home. Whadda puke!
Of course he would take public money - even commit brazen graft by attaching his house repair onto a congressional bill. But there is no hypocracy here - quite the opposite, he is quite consistently following the Ayn Randian "objectivist" philsophy.
Objectivism posits that nothing can be proven to exist but the self; therefore, anythng that exploits the unproven-to-exist "other" to empower the self, is the only course of action that accords with "Reason" (always capitalized, per Ayn Rand and her followers).
Or, briefly, just as there is no such thing as "society" in the objectivist philosophy, there is no such thing as hypocracy, since there is no "other people" to exhibit the hypocracy toward.
Or more briefly, "objectivism" seem to be 2 parts psychopathy and 1 part autism.
We should just cut off his dick, What? Nobody can find it. Well that explains why he wants everyone else to be miserable too. At least Weiner had one, even if he couldn't keep it in his pants. .
Cantor is a pathetic fool, taken seriously only by those of equal mental retardation. He needs to be taken to the woodshed by a bunch of chronically unemployed, homeless and bankrupt "beneficiaries" of the Koch Brothers philosophy of humanitarian charity.
let's swamp this despicable little man with phone calls (better than e-mails):
Phone (202) 225-2815
I suggest we start by cutting HIS wages down to minimum wage level. Let's write letters to local papers.
Step 1. Cut Congress pensions, student loan repayment grants for Congress members and staff, cut Congress healthcare funding, ETC.
There it is. Disaster capitalism at work. This goddamn motherfucker would ruin states and the people just to get something that proves he values so much more the well being of him and his cabal over the well being of people. A true psychopath. Not a jot of conscience in him and he loves pronouncing this austerity measure which means he will possibly quickly become a billionaire on the back of those who have lost so much. Some body take this creep OUT, NOW! Hold him down and make him sign on to a bill that taxes the members of his circle jerk, the rich.
Probably he and they want to do this to put the burden on o, to make it look like his fault so they can reclaim the white house. Thing is, o will probably do what they are demanding just as he always has because o is just as a conscienceless psychopath as cantor and his neocon tea buddies are. In the end it is always about the money. Not fiscal responsibility but grand larceny.
One thing about candor, he also doesn't really mind exposing himself at the traitor that he is to the u.s. which is just another trait of a psychopath, people without a drop of conscience or remorse. The love running with the ball and I hope they keep trying because one day, someday they are going to get blind sided because they feel that o, the nigger, sitting in the white house is an aberration to the u.s. because he 'ain't the right color'.
wont cut money for corporations and the military industrial complex will he
favored bank bailouts and bailout of aig didn't but later pretended it was all obama and the democrats
he is of course, heartless, and arrogant, and cruel, will only cut programs that hurt the poor and middle class
Cantor stays on message, but hey lets play it his way, lets cut oil subsidies, every time there is a disaster caused by their product we can cut their subsidies or "money" we pay them, like in fueling our war machine.
But the real answers lie in taking back democracy. I believe the place to start is by Ratifying Article The First
http://hubpages.com/hub/Stop-Diluting-Democracy
Can you spell e.x.t.o.r.t.i.o.n.?
What a country!
Cantor for President. He's just as much a part of the Washington Consensus as Oblahblah, but at least Cantor is honest about what he wants.
(Sadly, I'm not sure I'm joking.)
I suspect if Cantor was given a truth serum, something like this would come out of the anal sphincter that he uses to speak from.
"Hi, Im Eric Cantor. I don't have any empathy for anyone, and I never had. My only interaction with my fellow man is to see what I can get out of them. Money from the rich, and votes from average people, the chaff. I loath the working classes, the useless eaters of society. To me they are a cancer upon the land, taking money from the ruling classes to live out their useless, pointless lives. Most times I cannot even hide my contempt from them, and yet they continue to support me. This only makes my contempt for them grow. How ignorant can someone be to support their own destruction. They really do deserve nothing, no make that they deserve less than nothing, and I pledge that is what I will give them.
I'm feeling a little strange now, like I was drugged and it's wearing off. I don't remember anything since I drank that water that you gave me. Humm, anyway I am so happy to be able to serve my constituents and create jobs. To do my part to make their lives better, grow the economy and create jobs. I will create huge numbers of jobs for them by cutting the deficit and making Social Security stronger. I need your vote so I can continue to serve you, after all I am YOUR public servant, I am there for you."
Emergency assistance Everywhere but to Cantor's district.
See how fast he gets booted from office.
Well let's wait and see if Virginia requests any disaster funds. If it does let's cut them off at the pass then we can say "we cut, so Cantor release funds to all the other affected states". As far as I'm concerned Virginia should get nothing until it turfs that reprobate out of office.
Erik, stop worrying. We can simply take the money out of our Israel account.
Oh, and lets decrease the pay of Congress by 75%. They are already overpaid by their lobbyist friends?
Mr Cantor, is I hope, not taking government money for his income...that would make him somewhat of a leach on society...or does he not understand that his paycheque...is a result of taxation...he is after all a government employee...
Cantor is a low-life scumbag -- a whore for the rich and corporations. Hard to believe he is not selling himself to the highest bidders or maybe he actually believes the crap he puts out there in which case it is even worse.
The senator is a citizen of Israel. Did he vote to cut aid to Israel or only to suffering Goyem?
The solution is to make these people live with what the say. No emergency relief until Congress cuts their won wages, retirement, health care etc. After all, they created this economic problem themselves, didn't they, so they should have to pay for it.
Obviously, there is no money left. It is a far more popular position to say, sure we'll throw money at the problem. That is how politicians get elected. Don't raise taxes. Don't cut spending. Just keep borrowing.
It is really a sign of the times that we aren't getting QE3.
We didn't automatically raise the debt ceiling.
This time we really are out of money.
In any situation where Cantor uses the "family plan" for balancing deficits someone should ask him if his family would expect to balance its home budget while expecting to get less and less for the work they do, expect to pay more and more in taxes to support corporations who pay nothing and are subsidized by his same people in the depths of their crisis, and fully help the corporate structure at the expense of the family in distress. People in Virginia deserve this corporate shill, they deserve to wake up one day and find they are slaves who belong to ass holes like this fool. When they wake up from their long sleep in Jerry Falwells church service maybe they will kick the pants off both the people who convinced them this crap was good for them and those who spooned it down their throats!
Baldwin’s insights were universally truthful: “People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread that they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them poisoned.” And on the importance of introspection and individual courage to democracy, he wrote: “Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person…It is certain, in any case, that ignorance allied with power is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.” - writin befor 87.
Not just the eloquence but the dignity, we are so challenged this way. Where is the dignity in living with greed and abandonment?
Is funding fucking FEMA under fatherland security really the way to go? As "progressives" shouldn't we be demanding more like a dedicated land based search and rescue agency chartered to NOAA and not under fucking fatherland security? Watching "liberals" circle the wagons around FEMA is making me a litte ill, kind of like those formaldehyde laced trailers FEMA provided to Katrina survivors. :(