[MtnClimber]

Well now, we certainly can’t have people not dependent on government, now, can we?

[chuckee]

Welcome to the club, North Carolina. I’m an American white straight male. I have been consigned to the you don’t get shit from the gubmint club for years.

[Gaffer]

I guarantee you any haltering or hesitation by the Biden/Harris regime on putting federal resources to the problem beyond a bare minimum FEMA show up was due to them assessing how this would affect the election in November. Are there more in affected areas who could be voting for Trump - or Harris. Could it affect how NC votes?

Seems rather pointless now with this whopping $750 payment to victims. They’ve already blown the money on $5K visas for illegals, rent money for hotels, new clothes, etc. Not to mention the billions to UKR and elsewhere.

[Verginius Rufus]

That should be East Palestine, Ohio, which is near the Pennsylvania border. Palestine, Ohio, is at the other end of the state near the Indiana state line.

[jeffc]

My family settled in the Bamboo-Triplett, NC area in 1773. My Grandfather left there in 1929 (yeah, bad timing!). Our family cemetery is there.

I have not heard anything from that area, don't know what's going on...

[Blueflag]

I will come back to this thread to post an in-depth report re my visit to western NC to deliver aid. What and who I saw, and what and who I didn’t.

[Blueflag]

I will come back to this thread to post an in-depth report re my visit to western NC to deliver aid. What and who I saw, and what and who I didn’t.

[9YearLurker]

If your guv is targeting you with weapons from the sky, there may be nothing that will save you.

[Pollard]

Government and NGOs are going into CYA scold mode now. Meanwhile private citizens have been hard at work helping people for a week.

Nascar driver Greg Biffle who happens to own his own helicopter is on day 7

It started out with a few helos, then a dozen, then 20, then 30 - ALL PRIVATE. Companies gifted supplies and citizens volunteered to distribute them.

A week later, fema & red cross take to scolding citizens and suddenly NC Nat Guard is tweeting how awesome they are now that they finally started doing something.

People have been delivering supplies by horse, mule and even pack goats. Medicine, medical supplies, water, insulin and ice to keep it cold.

[Sacajaweau]

Boy they were all over Bush when Katrina happened. But this was chocolate town...and Dems had all the controls.

And I remember the buses in the parking lot...but drivers were Union and said..."Not in our Contract".

And they predicted a bazillion Cat 5s...from here on out. The next year...the season was a whimper of the year past.

[yldstrk]

The government is the nemesis of good people.

[yldstrk]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/jesse-watters-the-biden-administration-is-blocking-ongoing-rescue-operations/ar-AA1rFtrd?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=54463b328b494340a106fb4edadeb2a5&ei=11

[napscoordinator]

Western North Carolina is going to cost us a fortune. Don’t be fooled thinking otherwise.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

According to ‘boots on the ground’ people that called into talk radio yesterday, it’s a THOUSAND TIMES WORSE than anything that is being reported by the Enemy Media. :(

[Savage Beast]

Considering the bureaucratic controls inevitably attached to government hand-outs and the inevitable corruption--governmental et al.--to which it leads, we are better off without government assistance.

This is the crux of Marxism/socialism/communism. Such governmental organization, power, and control inevitably lead to corruption and that to tyranny.

What irony that the promises of Big Government, viz. the best for the most, inevitably leads to the exact opposite. The wise, truthful, and benevolent understand this without having to try it. The stupid, mendacious, and morally and intellectually mediocre continuously insist on trying it--yet again--and again--and again.

[OrioleFan]

It’s highlighting how focused the Biden/Harris/DNC is on illegal immigrant replacement voters are. They put the continuance of the Democrat party policies first and don’t care how many Americans have to suffer as a result.