Thread: FEMA short on money

With all the flooding in the Mississippi River Valley, tornadoes in Missouri, Earthquakes, hurricane Irene, Hurricane Katrina. Has wrung all the spare change from a cash-strapped Federal Emergency Management Agency.

What do we do?
Should we, as a country, suck it up and take care of our own even if that means borrowing more money to deal with this. Or do we just do away with FEMA and let the States and people deal with it themselves?

The bleeding heart Dems want to take care of these people, send them money we don't have. Remember as a nation we are broke, there is no money.

The GOP wants to cut other things to provide the FEMA with the money. They just don't know what things to cut.

No one made them live in these areas and if they didn't have the proper insurance that's their fault.

I'm sure the insurance companies will forgo their profits for a while and treat the people properly. Those without insurance are just sh!t out of luck. They should have taken responsibility for themselves. I don't want one penny of my tax money going to help anyone that can't help themselves.

What say you?

Hurricane Irene, Flooding Put Spotlight on FEMA Emergency Funding - ABC News

Originally Posted by wooyarn

With all the flooding in the Mississippi River Valley, tornadoes in Missouri, Earthquakes, hurricane Irene, Hurricane Katrina. Has wrung all the spare change from a cash-strapped Federal Emergency Management Agency.

What do we do?
Should we, as a country, suck it up and take care of our own even if that means borrowing more money to deal with this. Or do we just do away with FEMA and let the States and people deal with it themselves?

The bleeding heart Dems want to take care of these people, send them money we don't have. Remember as a nation we are broke, there is no money.

The GOP wants to cut other things to provide the FEMA with the money. They just don't know what things to cut.

No one made them live in these areas and if they didn't have the proper insurance that's their fault.

I'm sure the insurance companies will forgo their profits for a while and treat the people properly. Those without insurance are just sh!t out of luck. They should have taken responsibility for themselves. I don't want one penny of my tax money going to help anyone that can't help themselves.

What say you?

Hurricane Irene, Flooding Put Spotlight on FEMA Emergency Funding - ABC News

FEMA should not exist, and this burden should fall to the states. Why should people in Montana have top pay to rebuild beach houses in North Carolina, or LA?

It is dumb.. States should require 3K to build in a flood plain and that money can go to a general fund. The homeowner would still need to insure their property, but if an insurance company does not want to insure it then so be it, dont build.

The government should not be in the insurance game.

Originally Posted by wooyarn

With all the flooding in the Mississippi River Valley, tornadoes in Missouri, Earthquakes, hurricane Irene, Hurricane Katrina. Has wrung all the spare change from a cash-strapped Federal Emergency Management Agency.

What do we do?
Should we, as a country, suck it up and take care of our own even if that means borrowing more money to deal with this. Or do we just do away with FEMA and let the States and people deal with it themselves?

The bleeding heart Dems want to take care of these people, send them money we don't have. Remember as a nation we are broke, there is no money.

The GOP wants to cut other things to provide the FEMA with the money. They just don't know what things to cut.

No one made them live in these areas and if they didn't have the proper insurance that's their fault.

I'm sure the insurance companies will forgo their profits for a while and treat the people properly. Those without insurance are just sh!t out of luck. They should have taken responsibility for themselves. I don't want one penny of my tax money going to help anyone that can't help themselves.

What say you?

Hurricane Irene, Flooding Put Spotlight on FEMA Emergency Funding - ABC News

Wow... 'almost' out of money... 'almost' at the end of the fiscal year.

Coincidence?

I would definitely consider suspending federal aid to places like Eric Cantor's district, I'd close federal offices in GOP districts, to free up the funds for more spending in blue states.
Shouldn't the people who voted for spending cuts, get spending cuts?

Originally Posted by wooyarn

I'm sure the insurance companies will forgo their profits for a while and treat the people properly.

Surely you jest!

Originally Posted by goober

I would definitely consider suspending federal aid to places like Eric Cantor's district, I'd close federal offices in GOP districts, to free up the funds for more spending in blue states.
Shouldn't the people who voted for spending cuts, get spending cuts?

Good! Close federal offices everywhere... cut the head count 5% per year for 4 years. Reduce paperwork by 10% per year for 4 years.

Reduce regulations... 20% per year for 4 years.

Cut
It
All!

Originally Posted by CSA

Why should people in Montana have top pay to rebuild beach houses in North Carolina, or LA?

ahoy CSA,

because the citizens 'o North Carolina paid fer the citizens 'o New Orleans to have thar stuff rebuilt.

'tis all about trust, me friend...the idear 'o "i have yer back, and when the time comes, ye shall have mine".

Montana, by the way, be a beneficiary state....it routinely sucks in more tax dollars than it puts into the Federal till.

aye.

- MeadHallPirate

Originally Posted by goober

I would definitely consider suspending federal aid to places like Eric Cantor's district, I'd close federal offices in GOP districts, to free up the funds for more spending in blue states.
Shouldn't the people who voted for spending cuts, get spending cuts?

ahoy Goober,

don't pay no mind to congressman Cantor, matey...he's just a silly, silly man. he be a career politician whose spent almost his entire adult life in state and federal politics.

he was on the prow durin' all them spendhappy years 'o the Bush Administration, but now hath conveniently swathed himself in the flag 'o the Tea Party Caucus, which i 'spose excuses him fer the spendin' sins 'o the past.

he be only interested in stayin' in power, and be a little more than a political opportunist.

Cantor churned headlines this week after telling Fox News that congressional lawmakers “are going to have to make sure” that federal aid in response to the storm is accompanied by “savings elsewhere” in the budget.

Asked by Fox on Monday if “any federal money that comes out for Hurricane Irene needs to be met dollar for dollar with spending cuts,” Cantor responded, “Well, yeah.”

In 2004, Cantor helped secure nearly $20 million in federal help for his district in the wake of Tropical Storm Gaston. At the time, there was no call for offsetting the funds.

Cantor vows disaster aid, punts on offsets - TheHill.com

- MeadHallPirate

Originally Posted by CSA

... Why should people in Montana have top pay to rebuild beach houses in North Carolina...

They shouldn't. Neither should I, who lives in the hinterlands and has refused to invest in home ownership at the beach in order to avoid the obvious and unavoidable financial risk.

Originally Posted by Damn Yankee

They shouldn't. Neither should I, who lives in the hinterlands and has refused to invest in home ownership at the beach in order to avoid the obvious and unavoidable financial risk.

ahoy Damn Yankee,

so the denizens 'o New Orleans ought to have to fend fer themselves, aye? i mean, why should the rest 'o our just and christian land help out Katrina folk?

aye?

- MeadHallPirate