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As a storm approaches, suddenly Southern ‘Small Govt’ GOP Governors want ‘Big Government’ help
July 11, 2013
By Anomaly
There seems to be a pattern here. When Gov Chris Christie needed funds to help after Sandy hit New Jersey, his Republican counterparts objected, until a storm/hurricane hit one of their states. And here we go again. Suddenly, Southern ‘Small Government’ Republicans are comprehending the value of what they perceive as ‘Big Government.’
Republican lawmakers championed sequestration but now that Tropical Storm Chantal is becoming a reality in Florida, Gov. Rick Scott and two other Republican Governors are bemoaning the impact of federal budget cuts. Still yet, Scott has blamed Obama for the sequestration before even though he’s a vocal opponent of federal spending.
The Beast reports .. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/07/11/tropical-storm-chantal-tests-national-guard-furloughs-and-governors.html :
With Tropical Storm Chantal .. http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2013/07/08/tropical-storm-approaches-caribbean.html .. headed for South Florida with landfall likely Saturday, Florida Gov. Rick Scott .. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/08/27/florida-s-rick-scott-battered-but-unbowed-by-politics-and-bad-weather.html .. is sounding alarm bells about the impact of National Guard furloughs on state storm preparations. “The problem is you’re losing training time, you’re losing preparation time,” Scott said during a radio interview in Jacksonville. “When will the National Guard make the decision that we stop the furloughs? Right after the hurricane hits?”
Scott joined with two other Southern Republican governors whose states are in the path of tropical storms to write a letter to President Obama urging him to call off the furloughs. In Florida, nearly 1,000 employees of the National Guard are furloughed once a week, saving the federal government money under the congressionally mandated sequester but costing the state in readiness.
The letter, also signed by Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, says, “The furlough hits us at a historically inopportune time, as evidenced by many years of hurricanes, wildfires and flooding in our states from May through October.” The three governors point out that under sequestration, nearly 50 percent of their full-time uniformed military personnel will be furloughed one day a week from July through September.
(my bold)
What Jindal meant to say was, “The furlough hits our state at a historically inopportune time.”
http://freakoutnation.com/2013/07/11/as-a-storm-approaches-suddenly-southern-small-govt-gop-governors-want-big-government-help/
.. good luck with Chantal ..
July 11, 2013
By Anomaly
There seems to be a pattern here. When Gov Chris Christie needed funds to help after Sandy hit New Jersey, his Republican counterparts objected, until a storm/hurricane hit one of their states. And here we go again. Suddenly, Southern ‘Small Government’ Republicans are comprehending the value of what they perceive as ‘Big Government.’
Republican lawmakers championed sequestration but now that Tropical Storm Chantal is becoming a reality in Florida, Gov. Rick Scott and two other Republican Governors are bemoaning the impact of federal budget cuts. Still yet, Scott has blamed Obama for the sequestration before even though he’s a vocal opponent of federal spending.
The Beast reports .. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/07/11/tropical-storm-chantal-tests-national-guard-furloughs-and-governors.html :
With Tropical Storm Chantal .. http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2013/07/08/tropical-storm-approaches-caribbean.html .. headed for South Florida with landfall likely Saturday, Florida Gov. Rick Scott .. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/08/27/florida-s-rick-scott-battered-but-unbowed-by-politics-and-bad-weather.html .. is sounding alarm bells about the impact of National Guard furloughs on state storm preparations. “The problem is you’re losing training time, you’re losing preparation time,” Scott said during a radio interview in Jacksonville. “When will the National Guard make the decision that we stop the furloughs? Right after the hurricane hits?”
Scott joined with two other Southern Republican governors whose states are in the path of tropical storms to write a letter to President Obama urging him to call off the furloughs. In Florida, nearly 1,000 employees of the National Guard are furloughed once a week, saving the federal government money under the congressionally mandated sequester but costing the state in readiness.
The letter, also signed by Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, says, “The furlough hits us at a historically inopportune time, as evidenced by many years of hurricanes, wildfires and flooding in our states from May through October.” The three governors point out that under sequestration, nearly 50 percent of their full-time uniformed military personnel will be furloughed one day a week from July through September.
(my bold)
What Jindal meant to say was, “The furlough hits our state at a historically inopportune time.”
http://freakoutnation.com/2013/07/11/as-a-storm-approaches-suddenly-southern-small-govt-gop-governors-want-big-government-help/
.. good luck with Chantal ..
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”
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