You right wing nuts made the storm much worse because you're stingy!
You right wing nuts made the storm much worse because you're stingy!
no...it doesn't NYT
A big storm requires *efficient* government.
Odungo has to respond to his base (NYC)....
Is this an actually news article?
LOL!
I’m imagining NY city waiting for the UN to fix their flooded subways.
The bigger the better right NYTimes ?
I wonder if Axelrod is on the NYT payroll, or if he writes these press releases gratis.
The fundamental fallacy of this argument lays in the assumption that such functions couldn’t be equally or better provided to society via non-government entities.
I noticed NYT has closed the comment for the article. A big storm does NOT require a big gov’t,,it requires a flexible and well-oiled machine, lean and responsive. Can’t at least one lib think outside the bun for awhile?
"I'll always have al Qaeda and the New York Times."
FEMA should be eliminated.
Disaster preparedness done by states suffers because big brother is always there.
Disaster relief ends up going to certain states disproportionately. It is not the obligation of Idaho to pay for hurricane damage in Florida, or Virginia, where I live.
States could purchase insurance to cover some needs, and have a rainy day fund for others.
And the BEST reason:
FEMA is a mechanism by which any administration can buy votes and power. I watched this morning as Chris Christie had to effusively praise President Obama’s “handling” of New Jersey’s plight. Christie had to do this, or risk ticking off big bro.
Big bro is a vindictive sort, and Chris Christie knows it.
The fact that the feds are supposed to come in and help was the reason the left was able to bludgeon Bush with his response to Katrina, also.
Cornered, densely populated 'rat mazes need plenty of direct supervision.
Any idiot can throw money at a disaster.
Hoping that the NY Slimes offices and operations are under about ten feet of water.
No, it merely requires an intelligent citizenry, an economy strong enough to endure these events, and competent local authorities.
No savior from Washington DC required.
So they like bigger, more powerful government....... I wonder what happens when a Republican is elected and in charge.
Will they still be fantasizing about a bigger government?
Waiting for the UN to take up a collection around the world to help poor little us.
“... And that is why I have instituted a new organization to deal with weather disasters. They will be as as large, well organized and trained as the military, and they will be under Presidential authority only. Because they will be dealing with weather events I am calling them my Storm Troopers.”
I think people who prepared for disaster are going to be better off than those sitting on their hands waiting for big daddy government to show up.
I am sure they considered those who prepared and bought extra food to be possible domestic terrorists.
This whole “collective” thing turns my stomach. When people choose to live in a flood plain, on a beach, on a fault line, beneath a volcano, or anywhere it gets too hot or too cold, too dry or too wet then it is their choice. They need to plan for it. They need to pay for it.
I am not against charity, but I am against my tax dollars being washed through bureaucrats’ hands in DC only to be inefficiently delivered to people who long ago made the decision to rely federal relief instead of planning and taking responsibility for their own lives and property.