FEMA Red Tape Kept Moore from Building Safe Rooms for More than a Year Before Tornado (Barack Obama, March)

[brentwoodgirl]

From the city of Moore website in Feb. 2013:

The City's safe room rebate program is still "on hold", with not a lot changed from our update of last May.

Our county-wide Hazard Mitigation Plan still has not been approved by the State and FEMA. There were changes to the Federal requirements for this plan that occurred while our contractor was writing the document; he has had to rewrite it. We've found that the FEMA requirements and their interpretations seem to be a constantly moving target, more so with the new wrinkles. We're still working out various wording changes with the State reviewers and hope to submit the final document in March.

Safe Room Rebate Program - Update Feb. 2013 | City of Moore

They started working on this safe room grant project in Oct. 2011. The red tape and constantly changing standards of FEMA delayed the projects and now May 2013, we see the devastating consequences.
The project would have added 800 more safe rooms to Moore.

[Dockside]

Hmm, Obama's FEMA.

[brentwoodgirl]

Originally Posted by Dockside

Hmm, Obama's FEMA.

Obama hates white Oklahomans.

[Frank DeForrest]

Looks like FEMA has blood on its hands. Too bad we'll never know the names of the responsible parties

[AeroGuyDC]

In the spirit of Kanye West and Hurricane Katrina, Barack Obama doesn't care about White People.

[Art123]

There was never any obstacle for the city or the state or private companies to fund their own safe rooms in these schools.

They delay was in having it paid for by the federal government.

But, I thought conservatives believe that the local governments should run their own affairs, should fund the things the way they see fit?

Conservatives are complaining that Federal money wasn't spent on a local issue?

Seems...hypocritical.

On some fronts y'all complain that Federal money is spent, then complain that it wasn't spent fast enough?

Why should New Englanders fund tornado safe rooms in Oklahoma, that is, from a Federalist or conservative point of view?

[brentwoodgirl]

Originally Posted by Art123

There was never any obstacle for the city or the state or private companies to fund their own safe rooms in these schools.

They delay was in having it paid for by the federal government.

But, I thought conservatives believe that the local governments should run their own affairs, should fund the things the way they see fit?

Conservatives are complaining that Federal money wasn't spent on a local issue?

Seems...hypocritical.

On some fronts y'all complain that Federal money is spent, then complain that it wasn't spent fast enough?

Why should New Englanders fund tornado safe rooms in Oklahoma, that is, from a Federalist or conservative point of view?

Moore was going to get a $2 million dollar grant.

Obama sent $250 million to Egypt this year.

$2 million is most likely less than Sasha and Malia's great spring break adventure. But as we learned from the sequester, Obama doesn't care about anyone else's kids.

[Weichert]

Where is the old concept of self-reliance?

[Maxwell Edison]

Originally Posted by Art123

There was never any obstacle for the city or the state or private companies to fund their own safe rooms in these schools.

They delay was in having it paid for by the federal government.

But, I thought conservatives believe that the local governments should run their own affairs, should fund the things the way they see fit?

Conservatives are complaining that Federal money wasn't spent on a local issue?

Seems...hypocritical.

On some fronts y'all complain that Federal money is spent, then complain that it wasn't spent fast enough?

Why should New Englanders fund tornado safe rooms in Oklahoma, that is, from a Federalist or conservative point of view?

You might be correct if citizens of Moore weren't required to pay federal tax.

See how that works?

Since Moore citizens have to help pay for New Englander disasters, turn about is fair play.

Now if they didn't have to pay federal tax, you might have a point. But since they do pay tax, your premise is not only flawed but a total fail.

[KUchief25]

Originally Posted by brentwoodgirl

From the city of Moore website in Feb. 2013:

Safe Room Rebate Program - Update Feb. 2013 | City of Moore

They started working on this safe room grant project in Oct. 2011. The red tape and constantly changing standards of FEMA delayed the projects and now May 2013, we see the devastating consequences.
The project would have added 800 more safe rooms to Moore.

Well the media has been running around salivating over who to blame for this tornado since it hit. Now they have their culprit. I just posted a link to FEMA about the block grants available earlier on the other thread. Now it appears they were trying to get one and big bro bottles it up with their usual incompetence.