dunes, to for fisheries, disasters, for the businesses, for the homes that need funding to rebuild. we can t restore the shore unless we get this funding. well, congressman, to show how correct you are, the cost of these hurricanes in the past 20 years, katrina aid was approved in ten days after the storm and it was doubled the cost of sandy. i was one of those that protested the response of governor katrina. it too long only tk only 10 day approval. sandy is only 60 billion and it s nine weeks and we re told wait a couple of weeks more? give you an example of eric cantor today meeting in new jersey and came out with this statement. getting critical aid to the victims of hurricane sandy should be the first priority in the new congress. the house will vote on friday to
republicans saying we need to do disaster resistance for joplin. as our resident conservative, eric says yeah we can do that but only if we find other cuts immediately to offset that. now i think eric cantor and other republicans voted for the katrina aid. why are we holding hostage the poor people of job joplin, missouri so we can show spending restrain at the same time. i saw this more as a rhetorical statement. cantor got a kwemt as weekly briefing. he dealt with it in about two sentences. it was a rhetorical tilt about how members of the prt prty defined what republican kes do. two years ago this is something ron paul would say. we can t aid of a disaster. can t build of a disaster unless we cut other spending. cantor is not saying i have drawn a line in the sand and we
assistance is to give them time to implement reform before they stage another level of revolt. let s bring in our memorial day mega pan toll decide. correspondent for the nation msnbc c. using this aid to both signal and offer assistance to the reform energy to the ground, can we influence events there. i think it is one of the best ways we can. we can give multilateral aid, support institution building and ultimately we can show particularly with less of a nagsistic vent that we care about supporting the peaceful revolutions there separate from politics which the president spok to in his speech. dave. can this be effective? it worked before when our goal was not quite as democracy minded. this, you know, giving people lots of money is a way that some