Discussion: House Will Vote On $7.9 Billion Initial Relief Package For Harvey Devastation

Is it still too early or inconvenient to talk about climate change? It’s OK to expend $100 billion of tax dollars on each hurricane relief, clean-up, repair effort - but it’s not OK to regulate business and industry to cut back on the human elements causing climate change and the increases in number and severity of climate-related events like hurricanes, wild fires, tornadoes, etc.? Oh wait, I know the solution - tax cuts for corporations and the rich, and let’s have some more discrimination against blacks and throw out some more browns.

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Meanwhile, in Puerto Rico…

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I thought all their tax cuts would reduce the deficit in no time? Isn’t that how Raygun did it…ha ha ha ha ha…

With projected clean-up costs of $190 billion, this initial relief package will go far.

Personally, I think even that figure is a pipe-dream.

Shhh. Rethugliklans are busy watching Superfund sites flood so they can ignore them.

Pruitt: “Out of sight, out of mind.”

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As a strong fiscal Republican, the Republican congress should only approve this hand-out to Texas if they offset this spending with tax increases on Texas. Texas does not want to be another welfare state…so let them pay all this money back in the form of higher taxes. Otherwise, texas doesn’t want the Federal money.

I see what you did there. :slight_smile:

“I think it’s a terrible idea,” said House Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows, R-N.C., who conceded that conservatives were getting outmaneuvered.

“I think at this point there are bigger issues that we have to focus on,” Meadows said.

Yes, we’ll remember that later next week, Mr. Meadows, when Irma smashes into the North Carolina coastline.