How Harry Reid Manufactured a Crisis Over Disaster Aid

Reid failed to acknowledge a single private charity helping with disaster relief.

Rob Bluey, --September 27, 2011

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Listening to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid or reading The New York Times yesterday gave the impression that disaster relief victims were suffering from a lack of government aid.
“Without additional funding,” Reid warned, “thousands of people who have lost literally everything they owned will be forced to go without food and shelter.” The New York Times, reporting from Tunkhannock, PA, noted, “Uprooted and desolate, hard-working people in this part of the country expect a bit more from their government.” More...

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