Greetings again, "shadow" and Frank! I was going to respond on this point, as well. Then I noticed somewhere that there's already another proposal for 40 billion that someone in Congress is putting forward.
The way I figure it is this: Congress would rather dole disaster money out in small doses than one big chunk, anyway. First, they don't quite know the full scope of the disaster right away, so no point in putting 60 Billion into a 25 Billion relief effort. But the more important reason (from their point of view) is that the more doses of disaster aid they dole out, the more times they get to preen in front of the cameras and show how much they "care" (with other people's money). It's happened before and it will happen again. (Heck. Katrina ought to be good for at least three more shows of "caring" after the 40Billion passes: at least one more dose of aid, and then at least two doses of "rebuilding." Anyone want to bet AGAINST five more "doses"? :-) Lowell C. Savage It's the freedom, stupid! Gun control: tyrants' tool, fools' folly. Shadow wrote: > On 05-Sep-25, Frank Reichert wrote: (from 20 years in the future!) > > FR> ... Congress appropriated about the same amount of money for disaster > FR> relief as it has for about one week for the US government to occupy > Iraq > FR> in an illegal invasion by any reasonable stretch of one's > imagination! > > Do you really believe this will be the end of congressional relief > appropriations? _______________________________________________ Libnw mailing list [email protected] List info and subscriber options: http://immosys.com/mailman/listinfo/libnw Archives: http://immosys.com/mailman//pipermail/libnw
