Posted on 05/09/2011 8:24:30 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner
FEMA says no to Virginia. The Federal Emergency Management Agency denies Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell's request for federal assistance with the tornado destruction.
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The storm facts for April show the state was slammed by more than two dozen tornadoes. Killing 10 people, four of those were in Glade Spring. 212 homes were destroyed statewide and more than 1,000 were damaged.
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It’s the Chicago way. You reward your friends and punish your enemies.
How does Alabama’s recent designation as a federal disaster area fit into that premise?
Virginia being a red state again, there is no reason for Obama to help them out. Same thing happened with Texas and their fires.
President using Federal agencies for Political agenda.
IMPEACHABLE offense.
Only states that vote for Obama can receive feral government aid.
In the case of tornado taking away a home and everything in it - since fema has rejected cash to those who lost home will the they now go back to their StFarm, Allstate etc to collect etc?
I know we're katrillions in the red and they can't print the stuff fast enough but regardless who if anyone ends up writing these folks a check to build/fix a new house etc if fema has said no?
Also happened in the 1st District, Gloucester, Hayes and Deltaville. obama is a petty tyrant...kanyes Wets said Bush ignored New Orleans because he hates black people. I’m saying that obama is ignoring VA because he hates white people in red states.
Exactly. I’m all for helping people in need but it isn’t the job of government.
The narcissistic one doesn’t recognize pragmatic limits. Whatever he does will be immediately fawned over by his sycophant enablers in the media.
I happened to be on a bike trip last weekend and rode through this area (Glade Springs). It looked like a nuke went off there. The damage was unbelievable. At one spot, there was what appeared to be a truck depot on the side of the interstate with hundreds of trailers parked there (or rather HAD been parked there). The tornado apparently picked them up, swrirled them around, and dropped a good number of them right in the middle of the interstate. I also noticed a good 20 miles down the road past where the tornado went through, one of the large interstate signs crumpled up like a piece of tin foil laying in a cow pasture. How assistance could be denied to these folks is beyond me.
Maybe the taxpayers should decide FEMA doesn’t need funding.
Yep- Obummer’s FEMA is dishing out cash-ola for these disasters in a very similar pattern to how he has handed out cash to his union friends over the last few years.
So how come the press isn’t screaming “Obama hates white people”?
Consider another example of helping “friends” with cash, but not “enemies” in Louisiana. zer0 has decimated Gulf oil drilling for a mostly-Republican state.
Affected population. It is not about the land, it is about the people.
No, it's 3 Pubbie Governors denied.
Here in NJ, Chris Christie, was denied FEMA assistance a couple of weeks ago when the Ramapo, Saddle and Passiac Rivers flooded 2 County's in the densely populated North East corner of the State.
Is it just me, but does it seems obamma is quick to turn down request for federal disaster dollars from Republican-led states?
“I think the Dems are building a meme here. They’re going to accuse GOPers who decry federal spending and power of wanting and expecting the feds to come to their rescue when they need it, but wanting to restrict or limit the feds from raising and spending money elsewhere.”
The Dems have a hard time making that argument stick. They’ve historically had no problem taking tax money from around the country & rerouting it to non-disasters, like the Big Dig in Boston. The result of which rarely benefits anyone who does not live in Eastern MA. If Teddy Kennedy hadn’t been bringing home the pork, the capital of the People’s Republic of Massachusetts would be in the same shape as Detroit. And yes, many RINOs are guilty of the same philosophy, though not to that scale.
If the feds want to decrease or stop accepting federal income tax payments from Virginians, then we can talk about sending that money to the state to fund our own tornado emergencies. I’ll take that deal & agree to send in an amount to the feds to provide for the common defense. Sic semper tyrannis.
One word: “Birmingham”. One of the “Holy Sites” of the civil rights movement. It got Alabama a whole lot of national and even international attention when the storms came. And lest we forget - The One flew down to look at Birmingham’s damage. None of the other destroyed towns.
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