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The President has spoken and pledged all possible support, but where is it? The Red Cross, The Salvation Army and teams sent from neighboring states are on the scene working, but FEMA is conspicuous by it's absence. Only talk Mr. President? If Oklahoma was a swing state would it be different?
That is FALSE...The mayor of Moore said that FEMA was onsight because of the Tornado that hit a couple of days ago.
I agree that it is in poor taste, but so is the leftists crying "global warming" not 24 hours after many people were killed.
If you are upset at politicization of a tragedy - good - but be consistent and tell the partisan hacks on your side of the aisle to tone down the rhetoric as well.
FEMA deployed an Incident Management Assistance Team (IMAT) to the state emergency operations center in Oklahoma City to coordinate with state and local officials in support of recovery operations. FEMA also deployed Urban Search and Rescue Teams and a Mobile Emergency Response Support (MERS) Team to Oklahoma to provide self-sustaining telecommunications, logistics, and operations support elements. FEMA also has additional personnel from the Denton, Texas regional office on alert.
Sane people, including sane Christians, don't believe that God strikes down communities through natural disasters to "punish" them. A tornado is severe weather caused by nature--the collision of warm most air and cooler dry air--and not a supernatural event. That was the point that the daily show producer was trying to make. Good grief.
As for the rest, budget cuts have real world consequences on real people and human life. It's not politicizing a tragedy to point that out--it's fact.
First responders are the local emergency crews along with the citizens, private and businesses. Then its the Red Cross, then FEMA.
We had a local town get hit pretty hard by a tornado about 15 years ago. Locals stepped up, many amish and mennonites, and rebuilt or repaired barns and buildings with free labor. Local communities, church groups and orgganizations donated money food and items to those who lost their homes.
Everybody lent a hand. They will down in Okalhoma although the need for help will be greater on that scale.
Napolitano was quick to get on camera in Hurricane Sandy.
Sandy , like Katrina, was tracked for several days beforehand, with the landfall region narrowed down to the tri-state area 72 plus hours in advance in Sandy's case, and a tiny part of the Gulf in Katrina's case. Yesterday, 500,000 square miles of our nation was in the potential target zone. (5 times your home state, OP)!!
That means unless you wish to have FEMA headcount increased around 5000%, it is not possible to be in a tornado zone that wide quickly.
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