Secular Café: David Koch vs. Federal aid to NYC

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David Koch vs. Federal aid to NYC Dec 28th 2012, 16:14 Yes, one of the infamous Koch brothers. JT Eberhard: David Koch wants to stop relief funding to Hurricane Sandy victims. Americans for Prosperity: $60 Billion Sandy Aid Package 'A Disgrace' - Fort Lee, NJ Patch Quote: New Jersey's Americans for Prosperity State Director called on legislators to reject the bill, saying that aid would be a burden on the country's taxpayers and would be misspent at all levels of government by officials glomming for every last nickel. The bill, he said, would lead to a spending free-for-all and is merely an attempt to secure funding for wasteful endeavors by appealing to emotion. "Tragic things happen every day to people – worse things than having your house flood – and we don't hand them a check," he said. "Having your shore house flood doesn't rank. "This is not a federal government responsibility. We need to suck it up and be responsible for taking care of ourselves." Lee Fung: David Koch Now Taking Aim at Hurricane Sandy Victims | The Nation Quote: It seems particularly cruel that the Koch political machine would use its vast network of paid activists and professional operatives to kill this bill. For one thing, this is David Koch's community. From his Upper East Side apartment, Koch lives only a subway ride away from the devastation in Red Hook. Notably, Koch's group gave away free gasoline during the election in a wide-scale anti-Obama stunt, yet had nothing to give to the victims of the storm. Now, Koch, one of the richest men in the world, is actually trying to take something away from them. There's another wrinkle to this political assault on the aid request that makes it even more heartless. (No, it's not the rather arbitrary decision to target this piece of federal funding over others. Recently, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta identified $74 billion in unnecessary military spending, but AFP has not demanded that the government immediately axe these funds.) Seems like Occupy Sandy Recovery | InterOccupy Hub has done MUCH more to aid New Yorkers than David Koch or his brother Charles. I find it curious that the Koch brothers and other big right-wing moneybags aren't giving lots more aid than that Occupy effort has been doing, complete with loudly advertising it with "For every dollar of value of aid that those dirty Occupy hippies are giving, we will give at least $10 worth."

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