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Without the Alaska and Miss. Fisheries funds and not money for the N. J. to Manhattan Hudson subway  tunnel Christie killed a while back because he doesn't  want to pay or it.

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I am all for helping fellow Americans in NY.  And I mean that with all sincerity.  We Californians are just one earthquake away from making our own disaster relief request...

But seriously, given our trillion-dollar budget deficit (on top of multi-trillions of debts piled up from years past) -- I am disappointed that Congress failed to make commensurate cuts elsewhere to fund this program!  We need to do this -- plus do even more cutbacks -- if we are at all serious about cutting down the annual deficit and paying down accumulated debt!  How about all of us Americans actually sacrificing some  to help each other -- rather than just borrowing some more, business as usual?

Am I taking the Republican "party of no" stance?  Actually, I was hoping the Democratic Party itself could take the lead in fiscal discipline!  But alas, no...

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Or just raise taxes a bit as we're nowhere near the levels from the fifties.

I agree we need to pay for what we want. But we can afford to.
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I agree we need to pay for what we want. But we can afford to.

The fact that we repeatedly don't shows the pandering side of our politicians.  It's just too easy to keep writing checks...

Not to put all the blame on the Democrats -- we all know the trillions that the GOP wasted on W's wars -- not that they tried to plug the holes back then either -- they "financed" those wars with tax cuts!!

So yeah, maybe we could  indeed afford to be more responsible -- but the fact that our politicians would rather pander for short-term gains makes it that much more infuriating!

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There sure was a lot of posturing going on.  Would the Republicans have voted so resoundingly against the aid if they weren't sure it would pass anyway?  It's especially ironic considering where NJ and NY stand in the top five net federal tax donors.  How much revenue would have been lost by slowing the infrastructure restoration.  The means of measuring this as cost-neutral are not as simple as the blowhards would have us believe.
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