FEMA slow to respond -- G. W. Bush blamed for lack of relief.
Oh.
Wait.
From Victor Fiorillo writing at the
Philadelphia Post:
PHOTOS: Hurricane Sandy�s Destruction at the Shore, Four Months Later
It has been nearly four months since the storm commonly known as Hurricane Sandy hit New Jersey�s shoreline. And even though Sandy was not, in fact, a hurricane by the time it ripped into the Jersey Shore, the damage it caused was widespread and severe.
Some beaches and roads remain closed, and many residents will never recover their losses. I took a ride through some of the hardest hit areas last weekend with Walter LaCicero, the Mayor of Lavallette, who said time and time again, �There used to be a house there.� Here, some photos from our trip.
Visit the site for the photos -- the damage is huge with no remediation and it has been four months for these people -- they cannot get on with their lives. What is up with that? New Orleans got rebuilt quickly -- flooded business were up and running in a month or two. Sandy? Not so much -- sure, there was a bill for
$60 Billion in relief funding but it was larded with pork not related to the storm damage. The
New York Post had a nice writeup:
Obama Sandy aid bill filled with holiday goodies unrelated to storm damage
President Obama�s $60.4 billion request for Hurricane Sandy relief has morphed into a huge Christmas stocking of goodies for federal agencies and even the state of Alaska, The Post has learned.
The pork-barrel feast includes more than $8 million to buy cars and equipment for the Homeland Security and Justice departments. It also includes a whopping $150 million for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to dole out to fisheries in Alaska and $2 million for the Smithsonian Institution to repair museum roofs in DC.
An eye-popping $13 billion would go to �mitigation� projects to prepare for future storms.
Other big-ticket items in the bill include $207 million for the VA Manhattan Medical Center; $41 million to fix up eight military bases along the storm�s path, including Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; $4 million for repairs at Kennedy Space Center in Florida; $3.3 million for the Plum Island Animal Disease Center and $1.1 million to repair national cemeteries.
It's not like Sandy was unique -- lots of storms just as large have
hit the Eastern Seabord since 1667.
And this is just the tip of the iceberg -- there are a lot more screwups that happened. Our government is broken. It cannot work for
We The People and it just keeps stuffing more and more of our tax dollars into its maw, gulping and growing at an alarming rate while giving us no benefit.