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Isaac - when government aid is not largesse

August 29, 2012 RSS Feed Print

Vitter aide Luke Bolar said federal spending on natural disasters isn't an example of fiscal indiscipline. "People who object haven't lived through a hurricane and what the local and municipal governments have to go through," Bolar said. "It's not like a bridge to nowhere."

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Associated Press writer Thomas Beaumont in Tampa, Fla., contributed to this report.

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