Rep. Kevin Brady of Texas, explaining last week why he voted against the preservation of unemployment insurance benefits for laid-off Americans continuing to searching for jobs:
On this Tax Day, as an overburdened Nation staggering under dangerous deficits, we need to send this bill back to the drawing board and return with legislation that is paid for that will not create more debt… it is impossible to ignore the fact that those extra 73 weeks of Federal benefits paid today, a full 17 months courtesy of Federal taxpayers, come at an enormous price… $13 billion more for the unemployment benefits it would extend.
Rep. Kevin Brady’s vote to kill or preserve spending for the F-22 fighter jet, an airplane that requires more than 30 hours of maintenance for every hour in the air, that was designed for dogfights with the nonexistent Soviets, and that the Defense Department declared it does not want or need: Preserve the program.
Sponsor of $88 million earmark for the National Domestic Preparedness Consortium to coordinate education between already existing agencies who already have programs to communicate to Americans about terrorist threats that do not exist: Rep. Kevin Brady of Texas
Sponsor of more than $15 million in earmarks year after year after year for the Sam Rayburn Dam recreation area, for projects like paving a dirt access road, building a boat ramp and picking up the litter campers leave behind: Rep. Kevin Brady of Texas
Kevin Brady’s not the only one straddling this fence. Republican minister without portfolio Sarah Palin declared her outrage April 16 that Obama’s Defense Department would stop spending on the broken, over-budget can’t-fly-in-the-rain, shoot-down-soviets F-22 fighter program.
Really, this defense department blank check crap has to stop. We need the money to keep people from starving, still send their kids to school, and keep cops and fire-fighters around.
Hey, it’s either that or start taxing corporate America (and the ownership class) again.