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During a CNN debate at the height of the GOP primary, Mitt Romney was asked, in the context of the Joplin disaster and FEMA's cash crunch, whether the agency should be shuttered so that states can individually take over responsibility for disaster response.
"Absolutely," he said. "Every time you have an occasion to take something from the federal government and send it back to the states, that's the right direction. And if you can go even further, and send it back to the private sector, that's even better. Instead of thinking, in the federal budget, what we should cut, we should ask the opposite question, what should we keep?"
"Including disaster relief, though?" debate moderator John King asked Romney.
"We cannot -- we cannot afford to do those things without jeopardizing the future for our kids," Romney replied. "It is simply immoral, in my view, for us to continue to rack up larger and larger debts and pass them on to our kids, knowing full well that we'll all be dead and gone before it's paid off. It makes no sense at all."
guess what? if the state gov. does not ask for help from the feds, the feds cant even go in, and fema is then useless. get rid of that department and keep the money in the peoples pockets.
guess what? if the state gov. does not ask for help from the feds, the feds cant even go in, and fema is then useless. get rid of that department and keep the money in the peoples pockets.
There you have it, no need to do away with FEMA, just let it wither on the vine but of course that would require states to decline FEMA's assistance...funny how that never seems to happen in fact quite the opposite. They can't line up fast enough.
There you have it, no need to do away with FEMA, just let it wither on the vine but of course that would require states to decline FEMA's assistance...funny how that never seems to happen in fact quite the opposite. They can't line up fast enough.
I still say get rid of it, along with alot of other agencies, such as the batfe amongst others.
If your state is in the eye of a natural disaster how are you going to mobilize the resources and communications necessary to help on the ground? Like it or not, we need FEMA to keep resources on stand-by and move them in when needed. FEMA needs fine-tuning, that may be true, but to privatize it like Romney wants to do is just plain stupid and short-sighted. Plus it would even cost more if every state had to stock pile their own emergency supplies, tents, generators, etc. instead of having them storaged in key FEMA facilities around the country to be moved in where ever needed.
guess what? if the state gov. does not ask for help from the feds, the feds cant even go in, and fema is then useless. get rid of that department and keep the money in the peoples pockets.
Yea, let the states pick up the bodies later. The good thing is that the dead will have big smiles on their faces because their pockets are full of money.
Romney's motto : 'In Money We Trust'.
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