Posted on 03/07/2025 5:15:20 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
“The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: ‘I’m from the Government, and I’m here to help.'”
That is one of President Ronald Reagan’s most famous quotes — a declaration of war on the bloated bureaucracy of the Great Society.
Conservatives are used to hearing that quote cited as the ultimate example of what we believe, or are meant to believe: that the government is responsible for our problems, crushing individual initiative and traditional values.
I had reason to reconsider that quote this week, when Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Scott Turner visited the Pacific Palisades to meet with victims of the recent wildfire.
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We need some leverage. I showed him what Canada does with tariffs against us. Then he calmed down.
FEMA is running ads ALL OVER the area devastated by Hurricane Helene trying to get victims to apply with them. Won’t work...we have seen ALL the stories about identity theft and other stories of FEMA corruption on various newscasts and internet videos. Even if it means losing money, victims avoid FEMA like the plague. On the other hand...Samaritan’s Purse has been OVERWHELMED with applications...SP states that it may take up to THREE YEARS to get around to all the victims. SP has been wonderful, and I would SINCERELY recommend that anyone still interested in helping flood victims donate SPECIFICALLY to Samaritan’s Purse.
interesting how in country this phrase is purely HILARIOUS and scary but in foreign countries, where the VAST MAJORITY OF TAXPAYER DOLLARS are going, it’s a welcome relief to know that the American taxpayers “got your back”...as long as the understanding holds that there WILL be large kickbacks to the politicians that made it happen.
Bureaucracies are giant mindless robots who, immediately upon creation, start to think about gaining power over humanity.
We know for a fact that bureaucracies won't hesitate to kill people who threaten their existence.
This is why I worry more about the FBI and the Democrat Party than I do technology.
Shorten that sentence and you have a million dollar shirt and bumper sticker.
Got a new tagline.
BTW, it was your idea. So feel free to use it.:-)
“Even if it means losing money, victims avoid FEMA like the plague. On the other hand...Samaritan’s Purse has been OVERWHELMED with applications...SP states that it may take up to THREE YEARS to get around to all the victims. SP has been wonderful, and I would SINCERELY recommend that anyone still interested in helping flood victims donate SPECIFICALLY to Samaritan’s Purse.”
You are so right.
Samaritan’s purse is the only nonprofit that helped me after losing everything in the Almeda fire. I was stuck 4 hours away, sick with pancreatitis and COPD from living in a car in neverending smoke, so my 30 year old granddaughter met them at the burn. I didn’t know until a year later when she emailed me pictures of jewelry and treasures I would have given anything for. She said it was in her way so she threw it all out. It broke my heart!
My family has no empathy and a collective IQ of 23.Yes, my fault for spoiling them!
If I had it to do over, I would never speak to FEMA or any government entity.... Especially the SBA.
They are still taking thousands of dollars in interest for their emergency catastrophe funds from my social security checks every month. I drained savings for a home and paid them in full! But they wanted more!
I still fill out paperwork and drive 30 miles to get photocopies of every document on earth with the promise of “help”. It never happens except for illegal aliens and lifetime welfare people.
You aren’t a refugee to them, you are a commodity to perpetuate this horrible NGO farce.
They have guaranteed that I will never be able to get back home. There is no reasonable housing.
Hurricane ‘Helene’ destroyed my home...there was NOTHING left. Most of the help we received came from Christian organizations and private Christian citizens...Red Cross came thru four months later, although we never pursued help from them...(they drove thru the area, and noticed some homes were missing, and contacted the residents.) Based on PERSONAL experience (not third-party)...Samaritan’s Purse has my STRONGEST endorsement...the BEST place to park your relief money.
“citizens...Red Cross came thru four months later, although we never pursued”
I had to leave my area because there were no motels, not even a storage unit because everything was shut down in Oregon because of covid. So I went to a fire refugee center near Eugene.
The red cross and FEMA told me, GO AWAY, You are in the wrong county. The illegal aliens in front of me got anything they asked for.
Red cross said I had to drive 4 hours to apply. The day I finally got there, they had all just left.
I never got anything from Red cross or any NGO except Samaritan’s purse. They went through the burn with my granddaughter. They found jewelry and wonderful treasures. My granddaughter threw it in the garbage because it was in her way.
I didn’t know she had the stuff until she sent pictures of it all a year later. My family doesn’t understand empathy.
I feel like I’m in the twilight zone.
“Most of the help we received came from Christian organizations and private Christian citizens..”
I know no one wants to hear it, but those people are the ones who abused me, stole from me the most.
Our first encounter with Red Cross was when we were standing on the side of the road looking at the empty lot where our home USED to be when a shiny new Red Cross Chevy Suburban pulled up and asked us “if we had been affected by Helene”. I pointed at the mud flat in front of us...”House is gone.” They wanted to know if we wanted one of the shrimp dinner they had in the truck. First thing that ran thru my head was “Where am I supposed to sit down to eat it?”, although I could have eaten in our car, I guess. We declined (neither wife or I are fans of seafood), and off they went. Ran into Red Cross again at the high school, which had been set up as an emergency shelter/distribution center. Two RC reps were hobnobbing with other EMA officials. The best shelter they could offer was a cot in the gym...tough to handle when you had four cats in tow.
Although a real solid ‘Bible Belt’ area, a neighbor DID steal my wife’s brand-new riding lawn mower. Dirtbags are EVERYWHERE. In this area, FEMA agents are working with ‘insiders’ at USPS to steal checks from flood victims.
Yes I was limited because I got out with Bugs the Cat...the only thing I saved from 73 years of life. We were given no warning because our county decided we were all old and might get confused! There was no confusion when flames were in the driveway!
A couple friends offered me a bed but we’re allergic.
It was over 100 degrees and I couldn’t leave him in the car to eat or go to the bathroom.
That sweet 5 year old creature is the only reason I survived...then his last year he had to suffer with cancer!
When I had to decide to kill him, I lost ALL FAITH.
I want no part of a DEITY that forces me to choose life or death FOR ANYONE. NOT MY JOB.
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