Gee. What a surprise.....
Word is that this President is a vindictive man. Sorry texans... don’t even expect prayers from this “Man of the People”.
As a matter of policy, I don’t think the federal government should have a role or pay for natural disasters in any state; except for damage to federal property.
As for flood insurance, it should be privatized and if a piece of property is damaged by future flooding, the current program should pay to replace a totaled building once and then the owner can decide to either risk rebuilding or build in a non-flood proned area.
Taxpayers should not subsidize people’s choice of residence.
Amazing; but not surprising. Has any request for federal disaster funds EVER been turned down by a president before — EVER?????
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Don’t mess with Texas, BO. Texans may decide the east coast doesn’t need our oil and natural gas this winter. We could get more for it on the commodities market than the cheap contracts our pipeline companies signed several years ago. Two can play this game.
This kind of heavy-handed pettiness by a national government against a region is how civil wars start.
No, I’m not calling for one, but combine this with what obastard’s EPA is trying to do to our (Texas’) economy, and people (outside of the urban cesspools and Austin) are getting a mite but cranky...
A lot of angry Texans should show up at Lloyd Doggett’s office.
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This is just the latest in a series of FEMA snubs. Texas was left largely unreimbursed/unassisted after Rita (and after the added burden of thousands of Katrina refugees it had taken in)...and, to a greater degree, after Ike. The Texas coast has been rebuilding and rebounding without the help or notice of the MSM or politicians, who still bemoan and befriend NOLA as if Katrina was six months ago. It’s galling, but Texas will be fine. And Texans will remember.
For the record, nobody was more vindictive than native SOB LBJ. After Potter County (Amarillo) went for Goldwater, the Air Force base there was shut down. The base was in the process of finishing new barracks and had a runway nearly 3mi long (to accomodate triple touch-and-go landings for C-5A training) as part of the military’s expanding roll in VietNam. There was no rational reason for its closure..
the military still uses that runway, it’s been an alternate landing site for the Concord and the Space Shuttle, and Bell-Boeing assembles the Osprey there...but the AFB there closed in 1968 to satisfy the grudge of another petty CiC.
Obama’s constituents are who HE says they are, and it’s very obvious who they are NOT.
If you have finally had enough of the out of control Federal Government then for heavens sake stop simply preaching to the choir on these threads and start doing something about it.
As a first step, visit http://www.texasnationalist.com/
Having said that the whole FEMA disaster relief thing is another ridiculous program that needs to come to an end. Insurance is the conservative mechanism to rebuild after disasters. States are the agents that should provide emergency relief. FEMA is not among the enumerated powers of the US Constitution, Artile 1: Section 8.