Sen. Bernie
Sanders (I-Vt.) criticized the slow approach to appropriate federal dollars in the wake of last month’s hurricane.
“If we can spend billions rebuilding communities
in Iraq and Afghanistan we for sure can rebuild communities in Vermont, New Jersey,
North Carolina and other parts of the United States of America that have been
devastated by this Hurricane Irene,” Sanders said Thursday on the
Senate floor.
Remembering how quickly, and appropriately, the entire country responded after other natural
disasters, including 2005's Hurricane Katrina and this year's Joplin tornados, Sanders said,
“What a nation is about, is that when disaster hits one part of the country, we
reunite as a nation to give support.”
