While realizing more money ultimately flowed to New York post-9/11, including Hillary's appropriately requested aid for First Responder's health concerns, and putting aside that there are fifty states I wanted to get some Scamulus perspective after reading this today:
Meanwhile, Gov. Paterson called yesterday for fiscal restraint with the massive influx of federal aid. His budget office estimated that New York will receive $24.6 billion over the next two years, $4 billion more than first believed.
It's even more ironic that the link above includes a picture of the smiling Obama's now mini-vacationing in Chicago considering how Obama used fear to gouge taxpayers for over a trillion dollars in a bill Congress couldn't afford to take time to read - such was the crisis. I always thought terrorists, not presidents, used fear to get what they wanted all along. I guess Saul Alinsky was right - whatever it takes.
2002: Last winter, there was a brief flurry of stories (including one Chatterbox column) about the Bush administration's apparent reluctance to make good on its pledge to give New York City $20 billion in aid to help it recover from Sept. 11.
This funding is two-fold:
-Obama can now say he gave more aid to New York and the 9/11 recovery than Bush did
-it reinforces, in my opinion, that much of this "stimulus" money is going to Democratic strongholds/Democratic-leaning districts.
Posted by: Mark Turner | Sunday, February 15, 2009 at 08:49 PM