The apocalyptic scene of tornado ravaged Joplin, MO, has stunned America. A mild wide tornado left the city populated by 50,000, Missouri’s 4th largest region, utterly desolate.
Rescue workers worked through even more storms to find potential survivors in this new wasteland as the death toll rose to at least 122 — and rising.
President Obama pledged full support to the state Monday, telling survivors, “We’re here with you. We’re going to stay by you.”
But, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA), however, has a different idea, saying that before Congress approved federal funds for disaster relief, it had to offset the spending with cuts to other programs.
The Washington Times reports:
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor said Monday that if Congress passes an emergency spending bill to help Missouri’s tornado victims, the extra money will have to be cut from somewhere else.
“If there is support for a supplemental, it would be accompanied by support for having pay-fors to that supplemental,” Mr. Cantor, Virginia Republican, told reporters at the Capitol. The term “pay-fors” is used by lawmakers to signal cuts or tax increases used to pay for new spending.
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Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, six years ago took heat from his Conservative counterparts when, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, he said emergency spending would be tacked on to the deficit.
It is right to borrow to pay for it,” De Lay said, adding that cuts could “attack the very economy” that Republicans were trying to bolster.
And now, it’s Joplin. From this we know New Orleans would have been left afloat, with people clinging to their rooftops, because it’s just too much spending and life is not as important as playing politics.
This is heartless and probably certainly there’s a correlation with the debt ceiling. Cantor said today almost no Republicans would vote for it, without requisite cuts. Meanwhile, the good people of Joplin who also pay for our politicians’ salaries are hostages.
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