It’s not logical that a federal program like flood insurance should have an end date that has to be voted on. Does Medicare have an end date? Does Social Security have an end date? Does Amtrak have an end date (Wish it was yes!)…We either have the program or we don’t. If we think it’s becoming too expensive, than we revise the benefits or increase the premiums. How simple is that?!?
It’s also not logical that different programs can be thrown together for a single vote. This particular republican had more of an issue with the extension of unemployment than the flood insurance program. Yet, consumers (those who still have jobs and homes…and can afford insurance), bear the brunt of the our politicians playing stupid games and making things so complicated they can’t get anything done. KISS!!!
Part D. was and still is not funded. Unless you consider deficit spending to be a source of funding. But, I guess the elderly vote was too valuable a group to curry up to vs. the groups in question here. Remember who was in charge when Part D. was enacted and who is the loudest to scream about the deficit now…
Or when the sob stories are going to start? Like the woman who is wearing her dead sister’s dentures and now can’t close on a house that she can’t afford…
So refusing a 30-day extension on COBRA, unemployment, and NFPA is how we should make our stand against spending?
Rather than, say, not engaging in two debt-financed wars simultaneously?
Where are our priorities? We’ve got no problem spending a trillion dollars to date on two wars, but we draw the line at a 30-day extension of programs which benefit Americans? (Such as unemployement benefits in a steep recession).
We can give $700 billion to banks with no rules or oversight, but we can’t give the people who lost jobs on account of those same banks’ actions unemployment benefits?
Without unanimous consent, congress must adhere to the law. The Communists made a big deal of PayGo, then suspend it everytime rather than obey it. Now a Republican wants them to obey their own law, and Harry Reid cries about immorality.
Congress better do something to help these people. They helped AIG and yet they did not find time to place these programs on their agenda. Unemployed Amercian’s need help. We have benefit concerts, fund rasiers etc to help the poor people of Haiti. I feel sorry for these people however we have people in the United States living in their cars with their children. Charity starts at home. I’m frankly sick of not helping our own citizens.
Do you think we can tell the banks that there is not flood program so they can’t ask for something we can’t buy? Hmmm.
How do you explain to the people who pay thousands into a flood policy that the program is so far in debt it is almost inside out?
I think Flood should be covered under the homeowners and/or business property insurance. It should be included like some of the other coverages that are included in these package policies that some people use and some don’t; this way we can spread the cost all over instead of hammering certain people.
Margaret, why should everyone pay for someone that has a million plus dollar home on the beach. The government has paid to rebuild these homes over and over again.
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It’s not logical that a federal program like flood insurance should have an end date that has to be voted on. Does Medicare have an end date? Does Social Security have an end date? Does Amtrak have an end date (Wish it was yes!)…We either have the program or we don’t. If we think it’s becoming too expensive, than we revise the benefits or increase the premiums. How simple is that?!?
It’s also not logical that different programs can be thrown together for a single vote. This particular republican had more of an issue with the extension of unemployment than the flood insurance program. Yet, consumers (those who still have jobs and homes…and can afford insurance), bear the brunt of the our politicians playing stupid games and making things so complicated they can’t get anything done. KISS!!!
Part D. was and still is not funded. Unless you consider deficit spending to be a source of funding. But, I guess the elderly vote was too valuable a group to curry up to vs. the groups in question here. Remember who was in charge when Part D. was enacted and who is the loudest to scream about the deficit now…
We must stop SOMEWHERE !!!!!
Pay as you go!
Just wanted to know if they have blamed Bush yet?
Or when the sob stories are going to start? Like the woman who is wearing her dead sister’s dentures and now can’t close on a house that she can’t afford…
So refusing a 30-day extension on COBRA, unemployment, and NFPA is how we should make our stand against spending?
Rather than, say, not engaging in two debt-financed wars simultaneously?
Where are our priorities? We’ve got no problem spending a trillion dollars to date on two wars, but we draw the line at a 30-day extension of programs which benefit Americans? (Such as unemployement benefits in a steep recession).
We can give $700 billion to banks with no rules or oversight, but we can’t give the people who lost jobs on account of those same banks’ actions unemployment benefits?
Without unanimous consent, congress must adhere to the law. The Communists made a big deal of PayGo, then suspend it everytime rather than obey it. Now a Republican wants them to obey their own law, and Harry Reid cries about immorality.
Go Jim.
Congress better do something to help these people. They helped AIG and yet they did not find time to place these programs on their agenda. Unemployed Amercian’s need help. We have benefit concerts, fund rasiers etc to help the poor people of Haiti. I feel sorry for these people however we have people in the United States living in their cars with their children. Charity starts at home. I’m frankly sick of not helping our own citizens.
Do you think we can tell the banks that there is not flood program so they can’t ask for something we can’t buy? Hmmm.
How do you explain to the people who pay thousands into a flood policy that the program is so far in debt it is almost inside out?
I think Flood should be covered under the homeowners and/or business property insurance. It should be included like some of the other coverages that are included in these package policies that some people use and some don’t; this way we can spread the cost all over instead of hammering certain people.
Margaret, why should everyone pay for someone that has a million plus dollar home on the beach. The government has paid to rebuild these homes over and over again.