I like Louisiana, the bayou, Naw’leans and gumbo… and I’m not a big fan of boycotts but with that said the recent bold and blatant bribe of Sen. Mary Landrieu a democrat from Louisiana is a bit much, this on the back of the ONLY Republican House vote for the healthcare takeover coming from another Louisianan Representative Joseph Cao (R – LA 2nd) as I’m sure you know this bribe was at the tune of $100,000,000.00 taxpayer dollars. (Actually I understand it to be $300,000,000.00) So in a effort to recoup that money I might just have to forgo any Louisiana products.. I can purchase my seafood from Alabama or Mississippi and my boudin and andouille from Florida. Oh I know what some of you are thinking, this was only a vote to debate don’t overreact… well 97% of all bills passed to debate pass in the end and this in your face bride from congress with our money is in my opinion unforgivable.
So how did this bribe work? Well in 2006 is says in short…
The $100 Million Health Care Vote?
On page 432 of the Reid bill, there is a section increasing federal Medicaid subsidies for “certain states recovering from a major disaster.”
The section spends two pages defining which “states” would qualify, saying, among other things, that it would be states that “during the preceding 7 fiscal years” have been declared a “major disaster area.”
In other words, the bill spends two pages describing would could be written with a single world: Louisiana. (This may also help explain why the bill is long.)
So while I like Louisiana… it seems to me they owe the U.S. taxpayers $100,000,000.00 or is it $300,000,000.00! And don’t come whining to me about Katrina… you’ve gotten billions and if you build a city below sea level on the coast don’t be surprised when you get wet.
I seem to remember we had a pretty bad ice storm here that was declared a Federal Disaster Area … I’m still cleaning up from it and if I add up all the Federal, State and Local monies I’ve recieved during the year to aid in that clean up it comes to exactly $0.00!
Krauthammer on Landrieu $100 Million ‘Louisiana Purchase’ Buyoff: ‘It’s a New Kind of Business as Usual’
Saturday in the Senate: Cash for Cloture; Reid gets 60
Is Mary Landrieu’s Vote Being Bought for $100 Million of Our Money?
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