american. i think we need each other s help. i think we need government help and i think we need to sort of embrace that idea. we are all in this together. you are talking about technology a and globalization. we have to do it together and can t get in there and do it alone. i agree with that. she just said it nicer. i was trying to a better way of saying it. the point is marshall had it right. we need to pull yours up from our boot straps but sometimes we need help to do that. we do. that is what community and the strength of our economy is rooted in neighbor-to-neighbor, support and small neighborhood businesses and supporting them. my side of the aisle that we are looking at this from a top/down perspective is wrong.
peter king noted, congressman, that $60 billion was appropriated within ten days for katrina. i think that s part of the predicate of him making that statement. not to make light of it, i think it s actually $64 billion in ten days was allocated towards katrina. i supported that effort as well. sure. i believe that when it comes to a disaster, people constantly ask what role does government have in my life. you know, you realize what the role of government is during a natural disaster like sandy. i don t live in the rockaways, i don t represent that area but it s where my family is from. i ve seen the devastation multiple times. and these are people who don t ask for anything. they pull themselves up by their own boot straps and they get going again. but they re suffering right now. and every day that we delay and look, i understand what mr. boehner was going through yesterday. he had a tough vote in his conference. that wasn t fun. neither is not having power in your house.
peter king noted, congressman, that $60 billion was appropriated within ten days for katrina. i think that s part of the predicate of him making that statement. not to make light of it, i think it s actually $64 billion in ten days was allocated towards katrina. i supported that effort as well. sure. i believe that when it comes to a disaster, people constantly ask what role does government have in my life. you know, you realize what the role of government is during a natural disaster like sandy. i don t live in the rockaways, i don t represent that area but it s where my family is from. i ve seen the devastation multiple times. and these are people who don t ask for anything. they pull themselves up by their own boot straps and they get going again. but they re suffering right now. and every day that we delay and look, i understand what mr. boehner was going through yesterday. he had a tough vote in his conference. that wasn t fun. neither is not having power in your house.
at the house level, you will have a different america represented. there is no room for a meeting place there. it s really a challenge because along with the demographic change and the rural splat, you find the difference in world view. on the one hand, the individualism which is at the core of the republican world view turned into a hostility to government in general which is very widespread in south and rural areas and places where you don t need that much government. if you live in a big or medium sized city, government matters and you care and have other examples of how people get a lot done by working together. to me, the 2o 12 election was really about on the one hand, what i would call radical individualism and pull yourself up by your boot straps against the obama s campaign about
it s where my family is from. i ve seen the devastation multiple times. and these are people who don t ask for anything. they pull themselves up by their own boot straps and they get going again. but they re suffering right now. and every day that we delay and look, i understand what mr. boehner was going through yesterday. he had a tough vote in his conference. that wasn t fun. neither is not having power in your house. i understand. may i ask you this. this is being attributed to a scheduling snafu. are you aware of any organized opposition to relief for the victims of superstorm sandy? absolutely not. i haven t heard of any organized effort. i heard some of my colleagues on the republican side say they d like to give a lot less than the $60.4 billion. but we thought we had the votes that would pass the amendment to make it a $60.4 billion bill. thank you. appreciate your time. thank you. up next, hillary clinton s expected to make a full recovery