Christmas day in New York for Sandy victims

  December 25, 2012
  Just for all you sheep that feel victims of Sandy are enjoying the day as you are. Just want to remind you to read other articles that I have wrote as well as today the tents are still there and people living as campers I suppose. Only in how chilly is it? I only wish to tell you that all this great feeling of relief lasts well maybe a couple weeks. When the news pulls the plug and goes to the next big story. Well, hate to tell you but so does all that relief. The aid goes where the cameras go. After all the sheep really are taken in with giving all that they can to all these money collectors. Then it's passed on to who? Well read and see for yourself.

attribution: Dreamstime

David Koch is competing with Wayne LaPierre for being the craziest Scrooge this holiday season. Koch's crusade is denying Sandy victims any emergency relief. Any relief. All relief.

Billionaire David Koch’s prime political organization, Americans for Prosperity (AFP), having failed in its$125 million quest to oust President Barack Obama, is now aiming at a slightly less sophisticated political target: victims of Hurricane Sandy. [...]Earlier this week, AFP, which is chaired by Koch and believed to be financed by several other plutocrats from the New York City region, released a letter warning members of Congress not to vote for the proposed federal aid package for victims of the storm that swept New Jersey, New York City and much of the surrounding area in October. An announcement on the group’s website says that the vote next week for the Sandy aid package will be a “key vote”—meaning senators who support sending money for reconstruction could face an avalanche of attack ads in their next election. Already, opposition to the bill is growing, although it passed one procedural hurdle last [Friday] night. [...]
Koch’s top deputy in New Jersey, a surly gentleman named Steve Lonegan, who heads the local AFP state chapter, called the aid package a “disgrace.” “This is not a federal government responsibility,” Lonegan told reporters. “We need to suck it up and be responsible for taking care of ourselves.”

Hear that, Staten Island, Coney Island and the Rockaways? Get out there and replace your own power poles and restring your own wires. Repave your own streets and rent your own backhoes to clear away your demolished neighborhoods. Suck it up. Easy for one of the world's richest men to say.