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Here's One Reason Why FEMA Is Doing Such a Terrible Job
Hotair ^ | 10/04/2024 | David Strom

Posted on 10/04/2024 7:47:37 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: Adder

Adder you stated the case well. I feel your empathy. I live here in Black Mountain and last Friday I watched this horrific historic event Take place in front of my eyes from my living room window. I don’t have time to respond more fully .out the door to help my community .


21 posted on 10/05/2024 3:49:24 AM PDT by smartymarty (How a mountain girl can love.)
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To: smartymarty

Bless you.


22 posted on 10/05/2024 4:03:02 AM PDT by Adder (End fascism...defeat all Democrats.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Government institutions by design are incompetent and corrupt. When your officials don’t have a clue how to run anything and are then given tons of money the outcome is always predictable.

Expecting government help should the last thing you’d expect.


23 posted on 10/05/2024 4:06:46 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: SeekAndFind
I wonder why FEMA is getting into the illegal immigrant housing and welfare business.

Shouldn't that be the role of Housing and Urban Development or Health and Human Services?

I guess FEMA had the larger budget to raid or Mayorkas was more willing to go along with the plan.

-PJ

24 posted on 10/05/2024 4:16:43 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: Liaison

“..but without coordination it becomes more of a mess that it helps and red meat topics for radio.“

If FEMA are such great and efficient coordinators they could simply take down what ad hocs are doing and work it in to their schedule or suggest areas for the ad hocs to fill in. But that ain’t what they’re doing. They’re shutting out Americans who simply want to do what Americans have always done in situations like this.


25 posted on 10/05/2024 4:26:28 AM PDT by TalBlack (Fight Fight Fight America https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOJdMog6T0)
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To: BipolarBob
Just received this note from a SpaceX engineer helping on the ground in North Carolina. @FEMA is not merely failing to adequately help people in trouble, but is actively blocking citizens who try to help! “Hey Elon, update here on site of Asheville, NC. We have powered up two…— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 4, 2024

According to FEMA itself, it's #1 priority is no longer responding to emergencies but promoting Diversity, Equity, and inclusion.

FEMA's part of the evil...

26 posted on 10/05/2024 4:38:21 AM PDT by GOPJ (Corrupt ABC referees/mods trying to throw the game to Kamala made Kamala look worse.)
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To: TalBlack

Never said they were the best I saw better support in other incidents. I think the major problem is they are out of money. You need funds to move mountains of supplies, people, and equipment and time and logistics to get it there. And with the infrastructure destruction in mountains makes it harder.
It is a righteous mess.


27 posted on 10/05/2024 4:57:34 AM PDT by Liaison (TANSTAAFL)
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To: SeekAndFind
Oct. 3, 2024

Feds Say There’s No Money Left To Respond To Hurricanes — After FEMA Spent $1.4 Billion Dollars On Migrants (Illegal Aliens)

https://nypost.com/2024/10/03/us-news/feds-say-theres-no-money-left-to-respond-to-hurricanes-after-fema-used-640-9m-this-year-on-migrants/

Oct. 4 2024

U.S. To Provide $157 Million In Humanitarian Aid To People Affected By ‘Crisis In Lebanon’

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/10/04/u-s-provide-157-million-humanitarian-aid-people-affected-crisis-lebanon/


28 posted on 10/05/2024 4:58:46 AM PDT by Iron Munro ( Sun Tzu: An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes)
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To: Iron Munro

It’s not just going to migrants...

Someone should look into how much FEMA has and still is doling out for, get this, COVID relief...


29 posted on 10/05/2024 5:01:32 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: mewzilla
From this summer...

GAO report critical of FEMA's handling of pandemic

..."As of March 2024, FEMA had committed to spend $125.3 billion from the fund for COVID-19–related assistance like vaccinations, testing sites, and more—and had spent $103.6 billion of it," the GAO wrote. New York, Texas, and California had been given at least $15 billion each, the report states...

FEMA is just a bleeping big slush fund for Deep State to use to reward its minions and cronies.

30 posted on 10/05/2024 5:04:32 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: SeekAndFind

With Trump’s possible win looming the democrats will siphon off any penny they can at this point. They should be in jail.


31 posted on 10/05/2024 5:05:22 AM PDT by cnsmom
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To: mewzilla
I'm just gonna consolidate all this stuff on this thread...

From Kansas recently...

Hays receives FEMA help in federal grant application for R9 water project

FEMA shoukd not be paying for this one in OH, either...

Fire department receives FEMA grant for 9 exhaust removal systems Download MagneGrip’s grant funding assistance guide to learn how to secure a grant to help protect your station

32 posted on 10/05/2024 5:11:15 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: cnsmom

Not just the Dems. The Pubbies have their snouts in the trough, too.


33 posted on 10/05/2024 5:11:52 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: mewzilla
From Utah. WTH is this coming out of FEMA's budget...

FEMA to give Utah money to fix high-hazard dams

34 posted on 10/05/2024 5:13:22 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: Liaison

There are 2 different cajun navy nonprofit rescues- do you know which one is original?


35 posted on 10/05/2024 5:15:51 AM PDT by dkGba
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To: mewzilla

Very true they both will be starved for funds if Trump/Kennedy get control of the environment.


36 posted on 10/05/2024 5:17:28 AM PDT by cnsmom
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To: WildHighlander57

I think Samaritans Purse?


37 posted on 10/05/2024 5:18:31 AM PDT by dkGba
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To: SeekAndFind

FEMA’s mission is continuity of government. They are supposed to be the agency that oversees and coordinates relief efforts. They generally are not in the business of rescuing people or handing out food, water, generators etc. Now they might assist in procuring and basic distribution of those commodities but it is rare that they are the ones actually going door to door. FEMA plays a bigger role in later recovery efforts where they directly provide financial aid to municipalities and individuals and they also directly manage the emergency housing fleet.

Remember that FEMA is a relatively small organization (for the government) and most of their members are specialists in recovery and logistics NOT search and rescue.


38 posted on 10/05/2024 5:41:15 AM PDT by XRdsRev (Justice for Bernell Trammell, black Trump supporter, executed in the street in broad daylight 2020.)
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To: dkGba

When will this mayorkas fellow be in court at a trial for his ongoing treason?


39 posted on 10/05/2024 5:45:08 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp??)
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To: Sequoyah101
Excellent response at #8.

It is mystifying that so many Americans are OK with this state of affairs.

So many Americans have now graduated from the Gov't, socialist, brainwashing K-12 school system. They can barely
read at a 3rd grade level and only turn to the MSM for news.

Are they so driven by partisan hatred that they don't care about their fellow citizens, or just so brainwashed
that they don't notice the decline?

Yes, to the first, because, ala Hillary!, if you're not a fellow traveler, you're not a fellow citizen.
Yes, to the second.

40 posted on 10/05/2024 5:46:19 AM PDT by Thommas (The snout of the camel is already under the tent.)
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