FEMA (taxpayer) Money Only for Blue States

8/9/13 | Originalbuckeye

[originalbuckeye]

Obama has denied FEMA money to the victims of the Yarnell Fire. This fire was started by lightning. The Prescott Valley Granite Mountain Hotshots lost 19 firefighters in this fire, along with 129 homes and structures.

[originalbuckeye]

What is FEMA money for if not for this type of disaster??? Have we ever had a pResident who was more political oriented than the current one? Oh wait, he told Univision that the voters should reward their allies and punish their enemies in the election, didn't he? I guess all people in Red states are enemies?

[GeronL]

Another freeper says only Democrats are being hired as ObamaCare Navigators too.

Something else I do not doubt about this admin

[2ndDivisionVet]

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

[TLI]

Texas... 2011. Two MILLION acres burned.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency defended its decision to refuse to declare nearly all of the state a disaster in the wake of devastating wildfires, saying Wednesday that the state has already received sufficient U.S. government assistance.

Late Tuesday, Gov. Rick Perry criticized the White House after learning that his April 16 request for a federal major disaster declaration and additional help had been rejected.

"I think we've had 9,000 separate fires in the state of Texas," Perry told reporters in Austin on Wednesday. "The federal government has only helped us with 25 of them. That's inappropriate."

But a spokesperson in Perry's office confirmed that of the roughly 9,000 reported wildfires this season, the state has only applied for 25 fire management grants through FEMA. And every request has been awarded to the state, the Perry representative said.

A FEMA spokesperson confirmed that the agency awarded Texas 25 "FMAGS" this fire season. The representative couldn't put a dollar amount on the how much the grants were for.

The FMAGS help firefighters pay for things such as equipment repairs, food and shelter. The funds do not help fire victims with recovery efforts.

No "major disaster" there, huh bammy?

They were like tactical nukes.

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[djf]

What-happens-when-the-food-stamps-run-out pingaroo!

[ronnie raygun]

Using your tax dollars aginst you

[meyer]

FEMA should not even exist. There’s NO reason that taxpayers from one state should be paying for events that take place in another state.

[Flick Lives]

The Red States and Counties produce most of the food for the country. Food is a powerful weapon. The government might think long and hard about pissing off the Red States once too often. How long would their Blue State voting block last without food?

[Travis McGee]

It’s going to be ugly beyond belief, that’s what.

[silverleaf]

the time is drawing near for conservatives to register as democrats and become moles

[John Galt's cousin]

“The Red States and Counties produce most of the food for the country”

I am isolated here in a purple-ish county in a blue state. I understand your point, but wonder how independent individual farmers actually are. I have the impression that much of the food we eat is produced by ‘agri-businesses’ composed of corporately owned farms, selling products to corporately owned processors and so on through the food chain until it appears in our corporately owned supermarket.

What effect does the corporate agri-business have upon the economic independence of the individual farmer?

I understand that an individual could “go Galt,” but wonder how effective that would be. Would the individual have the ability to barter with producers of other goods to get the supplies and fuel the farmer needs, both for his own survival as well as to meet his financial obligations?

I agree with the sentiment you express, but I don’t know enough about the food industry to even ask the appropriate questions.

I personally would hope for a repeal of the 17th Amendment so that Senators would not be primarily aligned with their party, but would have to answer to the state’s government instead of the big money contributors to their next re-election campaign.

[Ann Archy]

And Democrats will get Medical Care, NOT Republicans when OBAMACARE goes into effect!!!! democrats are Lawless....Republicans are Ball less!!