This coming from a Governor who received millions for single pork riddled bridge in Alaska.
http://www.breitbart.com/news/na/D8CFK5701.htmlGov. Murkowski: $2K is a lot of money - especially for a handout
Alaska Gov. Frank Murkowski, a Republican, said he had concerns about the potential for abuse.
"That's a lot of money. The question is how do you separate the needy from those who just want a $2,000 handout," he said.
The cards will be issued on a one-per-household basis, said Natalie Rule, a FEMA spokeswoman in Washington. As a safeguard against fraud, FEMA will use aerial photographs of devastated areas to verify that the refugees were, indeed, forced from their homes in cases where they cannot provide documents to prove their losses or identities.
"We've got a huge population of people that have been evacuated with very little by way of possessions and we have to have a way to make sure these people can function," Rule said. "If there are those who are out there to cheat the system, that is going to be very disappointing. But the main goal is to get the aid out."
Rule said the agency was setting up registration centers in shelters in Houston and Dallas where evacuees could obtain the cards.
http://newhavenadvocate.com/gbase/Lifestyle/content?oid=oid:124917Congressman Don Young (R-Alaska) is one of the House's most proficient feeders at the public trough. He thinks the highway bill is not quite generous enough. As Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby wrote, "One wonders what more Young could have wanted. The bill funnels upward of $941 million to 119 earmarked projects in Alaska, including $223 million for a mile-long bridge linking an island with 50 residents to the town of Ketchikan on the mainland. Another $231 million is earmarked for a new bridge in Anchorage, to be named -- this is specified in the legislation -- Don Young's Way ... ."
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/08/opinion/08thu1.html?hpSurely Representative Don Young, the Alaska Republican who is chairman of the transportation committee, might put off that $223 million "bridge to nowhere" in his state's outback. It's redundant now - Louisiana suddenly has several bridges to nowhere. Likewise, Speaker Dennis Hastert could defer his prized Prairie Parkway, a $200-million-plus project dismissed as a behemoth Sprawlway by hometown critics, and use the money to repair the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway.