Most of us have seen the pictures of the devastation in Joplin, Missouri. At least 116 people died in the disaster. Entire houses were ripped off their moorings and sent flying, with only the concrete slab left. Hospital records from the local hospital were found 70 miles away.
According to a former state legislator who showed up to volunteer to help, the situation on the ground can be described as "block upon block upon block of homes...just completely gone."
That's what it looks like.
Now, most of us, when seeing a picture like that, react with sympathy and want to help. Most of us, just like in the past, want federal funds to go to the devastated area to help them rebuild. It doesn't matter if it's a hurricane in Louisiana, a tornado in Missouri, or an earthquake in California -- although the latter are much more rare. We want to help and we want the federal government to help pay for it.
Most of us aren't Eric Cantor, the republican majority leader. According to the Washington Times, which is a Moonie run paper, Cantor said that if there is funding for help to the area, there will have to be offsetting cuts somewhere else.
Keep in mind who this heartless son of a bitch is. He's an idiot who released a budget that had no numbers in it. He's a member of Congress who has no clue how the government works. As every person who watched Schoolhouse Rock knows, a bill must pass both chambers of Congress and then be signed by the President in order to pass.
Cantor must have missed that, as well as his entire civics curriculum, because during the budget showdown earlier this year, Cantor said that if nothing passed, then the House budget would become the law of the land.
He is also a liar who claims that his office was deliberately targeted by a gunman even though the police said the bullet was randomly fired and hit on a downward trajectory. Note the source there. Even Faux News didn't believe him.And now, he goes and makes Mr. Potter from It's a Wonderful Life look like a kind man.
If you tried to make this up, you couldn't, because nobody would believe you. Truth is definitely stranger than fiction.
By the way, if you want to let Cantor know exactly how you feel, you can call his office at 202-225-2815. Don't be rude to the poor staffer who has to deal with the crap that Cantor dumped, although there is something to be said about the priorities of someone who works for a son of a bitch like Cantor. Be polite, but let Cantor know that his comments are un-American and go against the tradition established by both democratic and republican Presidents to give aid to those who have suffered from natural disasters.
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“Funding things that *might* happen is reckless and ineffective,” Cantor said. “Not when we’re faced with such dire financial circumstances already.”
http://garystlawrence.wordpress.com/2011/05/23/cantor-balks-at-tornado-relief-tells-missouri-thems-the-breaks/
Saint714, if you use Cantor "logic," then nobody should buy insurance on their house. I mean, funding something that might happen, like your house burning down or being destroyed in a tornado, would be reckless.
By the same token, since it's reckless to fund things that might happen, perhaps Mr. Cantor will give up his taxpayer funded health insurance. Or is that lying son of a bitch only for government funded health care for him?
The only upside to this kind of behavior is that exposes pleople who say inhumane things for the inhuman, unaring bastards they truly are.
UGH let's send the whole Tea Party to Somalia and see how those "tough guys" cope with real anarchy.
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Well, it's a talking point that will kill him. I can't wait until the DNC uses those very words against him. I can see the ad now. Show the devastation in Missouri, cut to pictures of crying people, and say nothing. Then flash Cantor's picture on there, smiling, of course, and say republicans like Eric Cantor want to deny aid to this devastated community. Tell him they're wrong.