Posted on 09/23/2005 6:52:07 AM PDT by Irontank
Washington, DC: Congressman Ron Paul has joined Texas Governor Rick Perry in requesting a federal state of emergency declaration for the entire state of Texas. Under a federal declaration of emergency, federal assistance in many forms becomes available to the people of Texas. This assistance includes Disaster Unemployment Assistance, Hazard Mitigation, SBA disaster loans, and USDA loans, in addition to assistance from the U.S. Coast Guard, Federal Emergency Management Agency, and the Department of Homeland Security in general.
President Bush declared the emergency today, pledging a stepped-up federal response to what may be the biggest Hurricane ever to hit Texas.
Paul, in a letter to the president, stressed that all 254 counties in Texas likely will be affected by the hurricane, causing the displacement of thousands or even millions of citizens. Galveston and Brazoria counties in particular may be hard hit, and will need the coordination of federal, state, and local disaster services to ensure the fastest possible recovery.
Ron Paul, a hero to all of us Constitutional conservatives...a congressman who has bragged that he consults his copy of the Constitution before every vote in Congress...by far the congressman who most respects and honors is oath of office to bear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution of the United States...has requested the President declare a state of emergency in Texas...which will, according to Congressman Paul's press release, entitle Teaxs residents (including Paul's constituents)to Disaster Unemployment Assistance, Hazard Mitigation, SBA disaster loans, and USDA loans...programs that Paul has noted at one time or another are all unconstitutional
I cannot undertake to lay my finger on the article of the Constitution which grants a right to Congress of expending, on the objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents
-- James Madison, the “Father of the Constitution”
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Every politician is against pork spending, except for their constituents.
IS THIS THE SAME RON PAUL, THAT I JUST READ YESTERDAY, IS MEETING WITH cindy.?
Paul lives in one of the beach towns, Surfside?
The 14th district includes Galveston and a ton of coastline.
Good luck Dr. Paul.
Ummmmmm, that would be a definite yes, one and the same, Congressman Ron Paul, sometime constitutional originalist and trembling, sniveling, blubbering paleopantywaist in his every response to the very mention of manhood in foreign policy much less in military policy.
Did I ask you to put me on a ping list?
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He's been ZOTed already. Who do you think he was a retread of?
Probably CJ.
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Bit late.
Only for certain select constituents...
theres room for a book..
"The Art of Parasiting Federal, State, and Local treasurys". i.e The art getting pork, pork by products, and getting the biggest Oink out of your vote.....
Were as Rep. Paul is opposed to much of the Federal largess that will result from the President declaring a Federal Emergency, this would fall within the Constitutionally accepted duties of the government - national defense and general welfare (in the original meaning of the term.)
Also if he didn't act proactive in this major natural catastrophe for the bulk of his district, he would be voted out of office in next year's primary election. As it is a former Army Corps of Engineers cheif for the area has announced that he may run against Rep. Paul in the Rep. Primary next year. He got a chilly reception a few months back, but if this guy's Corps projects hold up and Rep. Paul pulled a Rep. Jefferson (D-LA), then the political dynamics would swing back the other way.
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