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FEMA denies aid to Texas for West blast
WFAA ^ | 6/12/2013 | Associated Press

Posted on 06/12/2013 11:11:17 AM PDT by JennysCool

WEST, TEXAS — The Federal Emergency Management Agency is refusing to provide money to help rebuild the small Texas town where a deadly fertilizer plant explosion leveled numerous homes and a school, and killed 15 people.

According to a letter obtained by The Associated Press, FEMA said it reviewed the state's appeal to help West but decided that the explosion "is not of the severity and magnitude that warrants a major disaster declaration."

The blast killed 10 first responders and brought national attention to the agricultural community. President Barack Obama traveled to the area to attend a memorial service for the first responders and others who died trying to help.


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: disaster; explosion; fema; govtabuse; texas; west
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Lest we forget, CNN reported in April that ...

Obama told the families and friends of the those killed that they were not forgotten, saying "our hearts have been here in your time of tribulation."

He promised them the nation will help them rebuild and reclaim their small community of about 3,000 people.

1 posted on 06/12/2013 11:11:17 AM PDT by JennysCool
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To: JennysCool

Before jumping the gun on the anger train, does anyone know if FEMA helped out in Boston?


2 posted on 06/12/2013 11:12:57 AM PDT by vpintheak (We are the chosen few! Be thankful for it!)
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To: JennysCool

Republican Governor (Rick Perry) = No FEMA.


4 posted on 06/12/2013 11:15:26 AM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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To: Dalberg-Acton

Screw ‘em, we don’t need them.


5 posted on 06/12/2013 11:16:15 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: JennysCool
In other news...

Kerry 'Quietly' Approved $1.3 Billion in 'Military Aid' to Egyptian Government

6 posted on 06/12/2013 11:16:27 AM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: JennysCool

Boston Marathon bombing fund is over 30 million, and Wast, which injured and killed more people, is a fraction of that.


7 posted on 06/12/2013 11:17:17 AM PDT by DBrow
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To: Dalberg-Acton
Thats it.

If we've learned anything about this administration we've learned they're all about 'punishing their enemies and rewarding their friends'.

F 'em.

8 posted on 06/12/2013 11:17:21 AM PDT by skeeter
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“After we win this election, it’s our turn. Payback time. Everyone not with us is against us and they better be ready because we don’t forget. The ones who helped us will be rewarded, the ones who opposed us will get what they deserve. There is going to be hell to pay. --Valerie Jarrett


9 posted on 06/12/2013 11:17:43 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Forget it, Jake. It's Eric Holder's people.")
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To: vpintheak

I can’t see any reason why they would help in Boston, but understand your point.


10 posted on 06/12/2013 11:17:58 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: DBrow

The fund is privately financed


11 posted on 06/12/2013 11:18:27 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: vpintheak
Before jumping the gun on the anger train, does anyone know if FEMA helped out in Boston?

Did FEMA help.....oh yes, "everyone" knows that FEMA "staged" the Boston bombings with actors and fake blood (yes there are people who really believe that's what happened)

12 posted on 06/12/2013 11:18:30 AM PDT by rockabyebaby (We are sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo screwed!)
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To: Timber Rattler

This aid thing is getting quite old. No aid should leave this country period. We are in debt up to our keesters. Stop spending my money.


13 posted on 06/12/2013 11:18:55 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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What the heck are we paying them for?
In the long run, Texas will probably be better off without the FEMA "Help". Rebuilding will be completed before FEMA would have finished their "assessment".

14 posted on 06/12/2013 11:18:55 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: JennysCool

Serves them right for not voting democrat.


15 posted on 06/12/2013 11:19:04 AM PDT by null and void (Republicans create the tools of opression, and the democrats gleefully use them!)
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As a Conservative, I don’t think FEMA should exist at all. Texas can rebuild this town better on its own.


16 posted on 06/12/2013 11:19:57 AM PDT by Solson (The Voters stole the election! And the establishment wants it back.)
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Obama told the families and friends of the those killed that they were not forgotten, saying "our hearts have been here in your time of tribulation."

He promised them the nation will help them rebuild and reclaim their small community of about 3,000 people.

Once he reads about FEMA's decision in the papers, he'll be shocked.

17 posted on 06/12/2013 11:20:29 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Fighting Obama without Boehner & McConnell is like going deer hunting without your accordion)
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Same day he went to Planned Pa. . .whatever they call themselves, pretending with them that they do wonderful things, when they all know they collect 500 million last year alone, which helps BO in garnering support from 55 percent of stupid women who think it’s wonderful to be able to kill their children and need politicians to keep that right because one day they will no longer have the right to do so and they will be seen as worse than slave owners by reducing human life into something other than human with their words and worse than Hitler times ten as they have killed ten times as many as of now and counting.

The president originally was scheduled to address Planned Parenthood on Thursday night, but the appearance was delayed to allow him to spend more time in Texas with the loved ones of those who were killed or injured in last week’s explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas.

In his short speech on Friday, Obama made no reference to a pair of abortion-related issues that made headlines in recent weeks.

On April 5, a federal judge in New York gave Obama’s administration 30 days to begin allowing over-the-counter sales of the morning-after pill, saying the government’s decision to limit such sales to those aged 17 and older was “arbitrary, capricious and unreasonable.”

Planned Parenthood sided with the judge; the administration has yet to say whether it will file an appeal.

In Pennsylvania, abortion provider Kermit Gosnell is standing trial on charges of killing babies after they were born alive at his West Philadelphia clinic. He also is charged in the 2009 overdose death of a 41-year-old patient. Closing arguments in the case were set for Monday.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/04/26/obama-tells-planned-parenthood-abortion-foes-want-return-to-150s/#ixzz2W1kX2Psn


18 posted on 06/12/2013 11:21:11 AM PDT by stanne
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Once he reads about FEMA's decision in the papers, he'll be shocked.

And he will say this is "unexpected", he'll do nothing about it and he'll most definetly blame Bush.

19 posted on 06/12/2013 11:23:02 AM PDT by rockabyebaby (We are sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo screwed!)
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To: COBOL2Java

bttt


20 posted on 06/12/2013 11:23:07 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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