Where's yo dollah?

After Obama voted against the bill which passed anyway and provided 10 times the money that it provided for NYC, he charges the administration with racism for not providing money to rebuild New Orleans.


"This really steams me up," Obama begins, "When you get federal money, you've got to give a 10 percent match, the local government got to come up with 10 percent. Every ten dollars the federal government comes up with, the local government has to give a dollar.

"Now here's the thing, when 9/11 happened in New York City, they waved the Stafford Act. Said this is too serious a problem, we can't expect New York City to rebuild on its own. Forget that dollar you've got to put in, here's ten dollars - and that was the right thing to do.

"When Hurricane Andrew struck in Florida, people said, 'Look at this devastation, we don't expect you to come up with your own money. Here, here's the money to rebuild. We're not going to wait for you to scratch it together, because you're part of the American family.

What's happenin down in New Orleans? Where's yo dollah? Where's your Stafford Act money? Makes no sense. Tells me the bullet hasn't been taken out. Tells me that somehow, the people down in New Orleans - they don't care about as much."


Voted nay:
Boxer (D-CA)
Burr (R-NC)
Clinton (D-NY)
Coburn (R-OK)
Dodd (D-CT)
Enzi (R-WY)
Feingold (D-WI)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Kerry (D-MA)
Leahy (D-VT)
Obama (D-IL)
Sanders (I-VT)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wyden (D-OR)