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FBN’s Liz MacDonald on the potential government spending in the Hurricane Sandy aid package earmarked for things unrelated to the storm.
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Americans -- -- -- a big spending bill in DC for things that are not gonna help.
The struggling homeowners hit by the super storm this is not a typical DC makes me sick citizen I'm not.
More with you Mac's bottom line -- say -- top of this all the way through.
Yes there's not any hearings yet on you know -- now turning into a beef pork storm.
Which is the sandy spending bill basically where we're seeing is is a focus on the DC or is and I new York New Jersey take a look at these items guys that are now in the sandy.
Spending bill that sixty billion dollar price tag that we're talking about 41 million of course the military -- that includes Cuba.
Twenty millions are you going plantings four million -- sand -- to rebuild -- rehabilitate them.
At the Kennedy Space Center also.
Four million dollars worth of new cars and office equipment for the FBI it goes on to land for a new roof -- the Smithsonian all the way down to one million bucks for trees that cemeteries.
And the I don't really jumps out is three billion dollars to fix -- place.
Federal government assets three billion -- is included in there -- so.
Isn't related to the -- appears they're just support -- and that's what's under debate now and this is what happens when.
In the debate is should -- be nationalized thing disasters that -- be having that this.
State left so -- here's the here's my question I do they think we're total idiots because we do this every single time for something out some unlike you -- it apart.
And we get to the bottom of it.
Yeah that's right precipitated -- -- -- -- -- -- I was that that's what they called it.
-- and Katrina I was down there in New Orleans -- we saw the same thing happen federal money wasted on soccer balls for.
-- -- federal workers laptops -- a new cell phones.
And the thing is that that -- three governors that the new York New Jersey Connecticut wrote an op Ed in the Washington Post say.
Hey it Katrina you you guys only took two weeks to give us some money we're just seven weeks -- But the question is should there be more debate about what is in this spending bill that isn't going to the homeowners hurt -- focused only thrown in as a sweetener to get support from all the different will make -- general -- -- their own constituents is the case in I didn't seems like it's a turning into -- industry -- -- that's right and here right to get the look to get it passed Ryan sweet net.
That's and that's the -- right now actually -- asked pleased they shouldn't need suite -- you shouldn't.
Dentists in the -- I'd pick up his entire stubborn levies stand -- -- Isis is -- China.
