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There is a lot of pressure to overreact
Posted by Kim on September 12th, 2005
Now I know why Raven likes this guy Tom Tancredo so much (she has a crush on him…and she is going to kick me when she reads that)
As the government rushes to respond with billions of dollars for Hurricane Katrina’s victims, there are beginning to be a few voices of caution.
“We are in this sort of knee-jerk reaction mode,” said Tom Tancredo, one of 11 House members, all Republicans, who voted against the latest emergency spending bill.
Lawmakers are being stampeded by their emotional reactions to Katrina’s victims, as well as “the political dynamic that says if we don’t show that compassion, people will think the Republicans in power are not compassionate,” he said in an interview. “There is a lot of pressure to overreact.”
“There’s understandable pressure to get money out quickly,” said Clark Kent Ervin, the former inspector general at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which is in charge of the relief effort. “But there inevitably will be waste and fraud.”
I don’t want to come out as a scrooge, but enough already. First it was those debit cards (that have been cancelled), then I read 700 million has been donated by private business and citizens…what more do they need from the government? (I know. Handouts. Freebies.)
I say they need help more than anyone else down there.
September 12th, 2005 at 3:04 pm
It is truly sad that ONLY 11 voted against that horrible spending.
September 13th, 2005 at 9:33 pm
Yeah…and it gets worse as they still are talking about tax cuts and forgiving debts…sick. Talk about being taken advantage of!