Waxing the poetic in the fifth

The congressman voted the original expenditure in 2005 because he said the expenditure was being passed without proper controls to give proper oversight and much of the funds would never make it to the victims. A couple of years later we know that is exactly what happened. Louisiana is a jurisdiction that has even more corruption than New Jersey currently does. But Mr. Aronsohn gives the stock Democratic response to every problem: throw money at it so we can all feel good - even if the money does not have the intended effect.

As for sleeping at night, one wonders how Mr. Aronsohn can do so after supporting and working for someone like James McGreevey.

There's no doubt that in voting against 1 out of the 3 original aid packages, Garrett cited abuses. It's not clear which pot of money the abuse came from, but we know there were abuses and failings. The abuses and failings from Katrina are a fraction of those in Iraq. It doesn't make the failings right in either case.  However, if you really want to believe Garrett looks after your tax dollars, ask why he supports through his silence the continued taxpayer funded hiring of US contractors and paying them 10 times what we could be paying an Iraqi to do jobs like carpentry and plumbing?

We're pouring taxpayer dollars into the quicksand of Iraq while a great American region still lays in ruins. We have next to no chance of seeing a return on the investment in Iraq, yet rebuilding New Orleans can and will help our economy. I realize with the 24 hour news cycle and the recent pictures of Mardis Gras that it's easy to forget we're talking about an area of America being so devastated they can't rebuild on their own. Better controls, yes, but you're advocating abandonment?

Just what is extreem about pointing out theTruth.
1) Ray " School Bus" Nagen has squandered      billions of taxpayer $$$ and donations
2) Hard working American Taxpayers have      been financing N.O. Culture of Corruption     for years with NO end in sight.
3) The victims of other areas are rebuilding     the old fashioned American way without     the complaining.
 This  so called "Rotarian-American" is a  loser  whos so called progressive values cannot befound anywhere in any of the FRAMERS documents

You don't actually believe that the pennies people save each day due to the Bush tax cuts, which by the way, the only people who really benefit are the people who need the tax cuts the least (such as me), would really take the extra savings and give it away. If you have it now you would send it, such as you and I have... But the people who need our help don't benefit from the tax cuts and need the governments help. There is nothing wrong with the government assisting our citizens. As for corruption, as another writer indicated, look no further than the former Republican Congress and the current White House. This is what annoys me about Garrett, he is an extreme puppet, who only stands up and supports issues that will hurt the poorest of the nation and the middle class, this man has no moral compass, it is not always about the taxes, keep your tax cuts (we will survive) and put the money in the places that it is needed. The man is the biggest hypocrite in Congress, he votes against the environment, but supports the polluters, he votes against legislation that would assist the middle class and combat poverty and hides behind the word WASTE. Wake up, the man does not think aboout how is vote affects middle America. Heck, even as an Assemblyman in NJ, he voted against Megan's Law that would protect children against sexual predators. I know his reason was that he wanted tougher laws, if that is his argument than he is not to bright, let us have no laws in place instead. I don't understand how some people can't see the forest through the trees, the biggest hypocrisy is Haliburton, moving the operation overseas to avoid paying what; TAXES. You just can't make this stuff up, but Garrett certainly stands up for the taxpayers, what a joke.