MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
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Roy Blunt (R) from MO: "Who Cut Our FEMA Funding!!"
By NCD on Tue, 08/30/2011 - 2:25pm |Roy Blunt (R-MO) is crying foul that FEMA may not be able to fund some work in disaster zones in Missouri at this time due to budget cuts made by Republicans.
Due to a string of climate related emergencies, culminating with Irene, FEMA funds have dipped below a critical one billion. FEMA needs to take care of more critical and immediate relief in disaster zones in New England.
I guess we are seeing the GOP response to global climate change, they cut emergency response funding and then demand that they get all the money available.
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http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/08/30/2381626/missouri-senators-angry-that-fema.html
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Oh I just love it. Making ones bed (with cow dung) and now having to sleep in it. I wish more of this would happen to these creepos.
by cmaukonen on Tue, 08/30/2011 - 7:29pm
Heres an idea.
Instead of the insurance companies or the government rebuilding, offer an incentive.
If you have suffered a loss, the government will place you in one of the millions of bank owned homes.
As we eliminate the glut, home prices will rebound.
What nature takes back, nature keeps, no more billions in losses.
by Resistance on Tue, 08/30/2011 - 7:40pm
Chickens, meet roost.
by jollyroger on Wed, 08/31/2011 - 1:27am
Forget FEMA aid. Government can't do anything right except cutting taxes, government helping anybody but a corporation is a ponzi scheme. If you aren't hit by a tornado or an hurricane you lose. Big time. Yet the government takes your money and decides how to spend it. Bad.
On the other hand, really big corporations don't pay taxes, which is good, it's OK if they get the money. It isn't a ponzi scheme because they never paid anything to start with.
by NCD on Wed, 08/31/2011 - 11:06am
The republicans have this notion, that the only thing Government should spend money on is defense.
Why should I or any member of my family DEFEND the ideals of the Republicans?
A country that doesn't care for it's people in their time of distress isn't worthy of defending.
We work for the greater good of the Nation, or we are slaves to Republicanism.
To Republicans; the flag is something you hide behind.
by Resistance on Wed, 08/31/2011 - 12:33pm
'A country that doesn't care for it's people in their time of distress isn't worthy of defending.'
How true. Of course few in the upper echelons of the 'have-more' GOP base have ever signed up to defend their country. They do the war profiteering, flag waving and cheerleading, the poor do the dying.
The last war where many of the wealthy actually signed up to fight was WW2. Kerry and Gore at least had the integrity to go to Vietnam, and Kerry to denounce it after. George Bush Sr. of course got his son off the draft rolls, and into the National Guard, where he was trained on an obsolete aircraft that Daddy knew would never be sent to a war zone. In Vietnam, the National Guard was not called up so Jr. was doubly safe, in fact, it had never been called to go to war since WW2. But Jr., the Saddam Getter, called up the Guard, over and over, to be sent to overseas in his criminal debacle in Iraq.
by NCD on Wed, 08/31/2011 - 1:22pm
So a few GOPer's have sudden realized their Party leaders have painted their caucus into a corner, eh? And no pork to ride on the back side of a bill either. And a minority within their own caucus demanding further cuts to drain the life blood out of other insignificant agencies they deem wasteful, like FEMA.
What I find hilarious is some have alluded that state governments should have rainy day funds set aside for natural disasters that are common within their borders so not to be a burden the government. Yet, most states are not allowed to have large slush funds. What spare cash they do have on hand is too small ... many voters aren't too keen on their state legislators controlling massive rainy day trust funds.
So states have no choice but to look to the government when all hell breaks loose. And the GOPer response is take care of yourself. And almost all states are in the red laying off thousands of public employees because of unexpected shortfall in tax revenues due to unemployment. Which the GOPer's insist is the responsibility of the market, not the government.
I've always thought avalanches started out slow, but picked up speed steady as it moved. This one seems to be stuck in slow motion. The only way for the public to see the follies behind the GOPer charade is for the avalanche to start picking up more speed before November 2012 because the more time between events means the public will not connect the dots and treat each event as a single issue rather than a domino effect.
by Beetlejuice on Thu, 09/01/2011 - 8:37am
Disaster training '101', which course material I am sure no Republican has taken, categorizes disaster levels by the need for the affected area to receive help from the outside. Major disasters cannot be handled at the state level. We even see this with countries, where even Japan cannot handle a major disaster alone. The need for FEMA is unquestionable. As Resistance says, a country that doesn't help its own citizens in distress, is not a country worth defending.
by NCD on Thu, 09/01/2011 - 8:46pm
O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
O beautiful for pilgrim feet
Whose stern impassion'd stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness.
America! America!
God mend thine ev'ry flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law.
O beautiful for heroes prov'd
In liberating strife,
Who more than self their country lov'd,
And mercy more than life.........................................HELP for the afflicted?
May God thy gold refine
Till all success be nobleness,
And ev'ry gain divine.
O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears......................Republicans can't you hear or see?
America! America!
God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood.......America have you lost your goodness
by Resistance on Thu, 09/01/2011 - 10:22pm
Wuzthat? I know I heard it somewhere.
Karl Marx's commie anthem with America instead of Union of Soviet Socialist Commie Republics? Some socialist French tune?
It sure wasn't written by a Republican!
by NCD on Thu, 09/01/2011 - 11:22pm