Posted on 10/04/2024 7:47:37 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Dam repair is part of FEMA’s purview since it is considered disaster prevention. Part of FEMA’s job that I did not mention earlier is to identify and implement disaster prevention efforts both natural and man made (including certain terrorism issues). This ranges from creating flood zone maps to funding dam repairs, electrical grid improvements or overseeing coordination of security at the Olympics. One can justifiably argue that these missions are too broad for this small agency but right now, it is in their wheelhouse.
A county in NYS just applied for $50 million in disaster relief from FEMA.
Now, that is indeed paet of FEMA’s remit, coughing up for disaster assistance.
But NYS has a $250 billion dollar budget.
See where I’m going with this?
Why are states, including mine, so eager to offload so much onto someone else’s taxpayers?!
Why isn’t North Carolina Democrat Governor Roy Cooper not being held accountable for not getting off his fat a$$ and doing something?
Gee, we all owe Barry Soetoro a HUGE thanks, huh?..
“Why are states, including mine, so eager to offload so much onto someone else’s taxpayers?!”
Because politically, it is far better to spend someone else’s money than your own constituent’s money.
Source is relatives who live in the areas.
I do not know if those stories are true.
“What’s the number to call”
1-782-69-3425
Point taken. Discernment and follow-up are required.
The Lake Lure story was first posted on Twitter (X). It has turned out to be completely true, and worse than originally reported as well. The City Manager of Lake Lure just keeps doubling down on support for the malicious actions of their Deputy Fire Chief.
I am not inclined to simply dismiss stories posted on X. The posters get most stuff wrong, but when they are right, they are way ahead of the Legacy Media.
"Never believe a rumor until it has been officially denied".
I'm inclined to fact-check any story from any source.
My experience recently is that the MSM, like Pravda, gets the basics right then adds just enough opinion and slime that can be lost if you’re not careful, in the hopes that we become statists.
”New media” is a mixed bag. Gateway Pundit and Slay News are the bottom feeders, though Slay is particularly awful. They often get the basic facts wrong, and then go off the opinion rails.
Breitbart is usually good.
Twitter is hit or miss…you REALLY have to fact-check and verify. There is a lot of garbage there, but when someone has a legit scoop, they punch above their weight.
No, sorry.
No, sorry.
The Cajun Navy did heroic work, in TX, after Hurricane Harvey.
ISN’T “RACHEL LEVINE” the ugly MAN who thinks HE is FEMALE???
GLASSES-—Blond——VERY UNATTRACTIVE
Good point.
And the $16 billion dollars in taxpayer money ro finance the "Affordable Connectivity Program" to subsidize
high speed digital connectivity and internet to certain people and organizations.
If there is a way to buy votes or line the pockets of friends with taxpayer money you can be sure the Deep State
crooks in Washington, DC have found it or are creating it.
FEMA has become a piggy bank for Deep State.
FEMA needs to be dissolved and replaced with something lean and mean, that assists in logistics, provides expertise.
Checks can be cut by Congress and administered by states.
States should be required to maintain solvent funds to provide for themselves, to carry insurance to cover larger amounts, and get only grants from Fedzilla. Funds that have to be paid back, with great terms, so states aren’t inclined to use the other 49’s taxpayers as cash cows.
If states are required to have more skin in the game, they might be more inclined to plan, zone, spend accordingly. Ditto for local governments.
Citizens might be more inclined to refuse to be infantilized, carry decent insurance, have a plan to take care if themselves should disaster hit.
Just like deep red Mississippi coast in Katrina etc
“Land mass between Alabama and Louisiana “
And I just checked.
Per FEMA, that bureaucratic Charlie foxtrot now employees over 20,000 people.
I won’t print the rest of what I am thinking about THAT.
Didn’t know about that one. Seems like someone taking idiocy to a new level. I was of the opinion that EVs of any sort were not considered the safest in (especially) flooded areas.
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