Posted on 10/03/2024 7:46:09 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Once again, Lahaina comes to mind..
It's not just the piddly $750 being handed out by FEMA to residents in North Carolina and other states whose homes were destroyed in Hurricane Helene. (A similar amount was handed out to residents of Lahaina, Hawaii, after their town was destroyed by fire.)
It's the lethal incompetence.
Just as cops taking orders from state government officials blocked Lahaina residents in cars from escaping the inferno -- the only survivors were those who defied them and drove through the blockades -- FEMA officials from the federal government are doing all they can to block the delivery of aid to people in the hardest hurricane-hit rural areas, where people need food, water, medicine, shelter and everything else and have been completely cut off from civilization. They're actually stopping them, as if they were trespassers and saying just trust the government.
That might work when people have time, but these hurricane victims don't have time. Their need for aid is immediate.
One aid worker explains why that may be, and it's a doozy of a story:
Ryan Tyre 🇺🇸 @ryantyre
If you are wondering why citizens are being turned away that are coming to help NC and TN - you'll want to hear my experience as someone who has been doing this as a private citizen for almost a decade.
I was able to get into, and out of Asheville. We brought food, water, fuel and other supplies as well as helped people affected by the floods, but there are reasons why they are not allowing outside help....
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
They seem to be intentionally making the crisis worse.
Spending Americans’ security FEMA funds on illegal migrants — how wicked can our government get!
Shut down fema. Fire everyone.
Contract with Walmart, Home Depot, Cajun Navy and Samaritans Purse to provide emergency services.
Interesting. I have a close relative who works in a federal agency who is saying (independently) pretty much what the author of this article is saying.
NEws clip after news clip is coming out on YouTube about how ridiculously slow (and small) the aid is (even in areas that are not relatively hard to reach).
Think about what happened in Hawaii not long ago. They put up a WALL to keep Americans IN AND OUT!
It smells like Blackrock angling to buy up cheap property.
Lithium mines and quartz (for silicon intigrated circuit 'chips'), too
Dispicable...
They tell us there’s plenty of money for Ukraine, plenty of money for Biden giveaways, when we knew as soon as it came to Americans, we would be broke.
Suddenly, all the crazed spendthrifts are fiscal hawks concerned about debt.
There is no accountability in DC.
“FEMA blew out its budget to pay for illegals, now it’s using its remaining resources to block aid from private citizens”
Failure is rewarded. Corruption is rewarded. Zero accountability.
Easy prediction: Congress will increase funding to DHS and FEMA.
*SEEM*???
They ARE intentionally making it worse.
And they can’t not know that.
It's nefarious and malfeasance.
And demonically evil to the core.
It's past time for Americans to stand up to them and say *NO!* and any *official* who tries to arrest someone for helping needs to be physically apprehended by the citizens. They're mini tyrants on a Hitler sized ego trip.
When you peel back FEMA and it’s purpose....it’s made up of mostly ‘agents’ who carry a credit card....loaded to the max.
So the ‘agent’ decides...there’s a shortage of baby diapers at x-destination, and buys 16 pallets of diapers to be there within 24 to 48 hours. If you need 400 cots at some gym, the card is used to procure or rent cots.
If the card is marginally loaded (as in this case presently), FEMA is useless. Allowing the money shift around....goes directly to the Homeland Security staff.
I’d say at this point, you have to remove FEMA from Homeland Security...give them their own cabinet secretary, and make a mandate...no involvement with migrants. Whoever moved the money around....needs termination from their job.
I heard Rep Cory Mills from Florida working in North Carolina to help victims. He said FEMA rescue personnel had just shown up. Say what?
ERIC TRUMP: “There are 157 hotels in New York City that are completely full of illegal immigrants... getting free shelter, food, phones, credit cards, cash payouts, free airfare.......and then you have pictures of husbands and wives and children who’ve lost everything in the Helene devastation ... and Kamala comes around and offers them $750.”
That monster has a name.
It is Alejandro Mayorkas.
-PJ
It is an absolute outrage!
Buttplug shutting down drones? On what authority? FEMA confiscating supplies?
Screw them. And every tinhorn despot local official who sides with them.
The good people will go and do what they have to do. Like they have been.
This is an unprecedented disaster. There is still time to find and rescue people...the ones who are cut off from road destruction and the massive piles of trees. Their houses may be intact but they are trapped. It will take weeks to get through to everyone.
And FEMA and the like are swinging their bureaucratic st[d]icks in everyone’s faces, asserting authority they don’t have.
We are 1 week into this mess and its clear that government IS the problem. I understand a need for coordinated efforts and supply coordination but the flow of those supplies cannot stop. Its like everything gets to Asheville or Boone and stops.
Videos of and by people in the last few days are getting vehement. They are no longer stunned and shocked...they are getting angry. As well they should be!
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