Hurricane Harvey

[*michaelsean*]

(08-31-2017, 09:50 AM)GMDino Wrote: Sure it is.  He didn't want to fund it unless we could "afford" it.

Very Christian.

Much compassion.

 

Quote: explained why it was up to the people of New Orleans — a city that was 80 percent underwater at the time — to deal with their own problems:

Quote: Mike Pence had the audacity to stand up in front of Congress and actually use a verse from the Holy Book (Matthew 7:25, to be exact) to explain why the government shouldn’t be using any of their hard-won dollars to help victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Quote:For most American families, when a tree falls on your house, you tend to the wounded, you rebuild and then you figure out how you’re going to pay for it. Later today, Congress will continue the work of funding the relief and recovery from Hurricane Katrina. And well we should, by spending more than $50 billion to FEMA and other agencies.

But as we tend to the wounded, as we begin to rebuild, let us also do what every other American family would do in like circumstances and expects this congress to do. Let’s figure out how we’re going to pay for it. Congress must ensure that a catastrophe of nature does not become a catastrophe of debt for our children and grandchildren.”