Romney's Ryan Is One Of Those Republicans Who Prefers Debating Disaster Aid To Delivering It

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Ryan opposed new, Obama-backed disaster aid regime

The Obama administration was the driving force behind the new disaster funding scheme and made it part of last summer's hard-fought budget pact, even though President Barack Obama himself had given short shrift to budgeting for disasters prior to a spate of disasters early last year.

The new system means disaster aid will not have to compete with other programs for financing, nor have to rely on less certain ad hoc funding at the height of a crisis.

What Ryan proposes is that when disaster strikes, lawmakers scour the rest of the budget for savings to pay for rebuilding homes, roads and schools and helping small businesses . . . disasters would offer an opportunity to make further cuts elsewhere in the government.

. . . should a huge disaster like Hurricane Katrina hit, it's simply unrealistic to find cuts of the magnitude required. Katrina ended up costing taxpayers more than $60 billion. Much of that money was approved when images of hurricane victims were still fresh in the minds of lawmakers and voters and as the George W. Bush administration continued to reel from its initial botched response.


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1. Hey, y'all who are going to be hit by Isaac. Do you understand what will happen

to you in a R&R Admin.? It will be a big fight in Congress over what programs to gore to send you a little bit of money. The easiest money to take will be from Fed programs in your home states. Why should NY or CA give up stuff to help you? When you vote GOP, you get screwed.