Taxpayers On The Hook Again

Please explain to me why taxpayers from all over the nation are being asked to pay people in the Northeast for the damages they suffered as a result of hurricane Sandy. I ask this because I and most people I know have insurance to protect us from certain losses and would never expect the government to come in and provide relief should something happen to my home.  This is my home and my responsibility to protect it. If I don’t, the consequences are mine to live with. People have losses all time, sometimes total losses as a result of fire, tornado’s and floods and all sorts of other disasters. Nobody comes to their aid. Since when did it become the taxpayers responsibility to absorb the losses of other taxpayers? 

Could it be it is because politicians can use the opportunity to extract even more money than is necessary from taxpayers to fund their pet projects?  Reports I have seen suggest that the highest legitimate estimate of what is needed to help Sandy victims is only $27 billion, yet lawmakers created legislation totally some $60 Billion and tried to get it passed in an 11^th hour vote to save the nation from economic crisis. Less than half of the $60 billion is even earmarked for recovery, but will be used for new spending all over the country as far away as Alaska. And we wonder how we got into this mess. Thank your government. 

It seems government leader’s never saw a spending opportunity it did not like, so any time the prospect arises, they see this as a way to create new funding that likely has nothing to do with the disaster.  Then what about insurance? Are we no longer in need of insurance on our private or government assets because taxpayers will bail us out?

Our government is led by the most incompetent morally bankrupt group imaginable as a whole. Yes there are some good ones, but they are getting harder and harder to discern.