Did you see Bobby Jindal’s response to the President’s speech?
February 26, 2009 in Uncategorized by Andrew Villeneuve
On Tuesday night, following President Barack Obama’s address to a joint session of Congress, Republican Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana delivered what is being called one of the lamest responses ever provided by a spokesperson for the opposition party. The speech included this nugget:
Instead of trusting us to make wise decisions with our own money, they passed the largest government spending bill in history – with a price tag of more than $1 trillion with interest. While some of the projects in the bill make sense, their legislation is larded with wasteful spending [including] … $140 million for something called ‘volcano monitoring’. Instead of monitoring volcanoes, what Congress should be monitoring is the eruption of spending in Washington, DC.
Apparently Govenor Jindal has never heard of a disaster out here in Washington State called the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, which killed fifty seven people, destroyed $2.74 billion worth of property (2007 dollars) and wiped out four billion board feet of timber.
Does Jindal think hurricane monitoring is a waste of money? How can he justify funding to track one type of natural disaster but not another?
What did you think of Jindal’s speech?
