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Texans are a very independent lot with a strong belief in taking care of themselves and their neighbors. You would never see a Texan (black or white) standing around waiting on the federal government to take care of them. It is not a black and white issue, but one of mind set.
And in answer to the person who said that island residents were rich -- yes some are but many were multi-generation island residents living in very modest homes.
[quote=marysally;7300828 You would never see a Texan (black or white) standing around waiting on the federal government to take care of them. [/QUOTE]
You mean like these Texans?
Local leaders have pleaded publicly about a housing crisis for weeks, distraught at FEMA’s inability to provide temporary homes. As of Thursday, 208 FEMA mobile homes and park model trailers had been installed and were occupied by residents whose homes were left unlivable by Ike’s Sept. 13 landfall.
Orange County leaders have said they need about 4,000 mobile homes or trailers. Jefferson and Chambers County have said they each have about 1,000 unlivable homes. Galveston County has said it needs as many as 2,000 housing units.
Poe, whose district includes Jefferson County and parts of Liberty and Harris counties, spoke with FEMA head R. David Paulson on Friday, urging the federal agency to increase its efforts.
My point isn't to deride Texans, just the utter nonsense that when folks face overwhelming problems they all depend on the Federal government, self-serving claims of self-sufficiency not withstanding.
In the first real test of the Obama administration's ability to respond to a disaster, Kentucky officials are giving the federal government good marks for its response to a deadly ice storm.
Sorry, Kootr. Try again.
What you offer is nothing but political correctness. Ask the people that live there and have not seen any help whatsoever from FEMA. How many people have died?
Here is yet another emergency operations spokesperson saying they haven't seen FEMA. Can you defend this?
"We haven't seen FEMA. They haven't been here," said Jaime Green, a spokeswoman for the emergency operations center in Lyon County, about 95 miles northwest of Nashville, Tenn."
There is been not a peep out of Obama for help in Kentucy where seven people have died, half a million people remain without electricity and over 200,000 are without water due to a major ice storm. Kentucy's Governor Steve Beshear described the fallout from last week's ice storm as the state's largest-ever natural disaster.
Where is the Obama administration? Why hasn't there been any federal help for these people? Where is the immediate help that Obama promised for these types of disasters?
What you offer is nothing but political correctness. Ask the people that live there and have not seen any help whatsoever from FEMA. How many people have died?
Here is yet another emergency operations spokesperson saying they haven't seen FEMA. Can you defend this?
"We haven't seen FEMA. They haven't been here," said Jaime Green, a spokeswoman for the emergency operations center in Lyon County, about 95 miles northwest of Nashville, Tenn."
What you offer is nothing but political correctness. Ask the people that live there and have not seen any help whatsoever from FEMA. How many people have died?
Here is yet another emergency operations spokesperson saying they haven't seen FEMA. Can you defend this?
"We haven't seen FEMA. They haven't been here," said Jaime Green, a spokeswoman for the emergency operations center in Lyon County, about 95 miles northwest of Nashville, Tenn."
I doubt you'll see people in Kentucky looting in the streets and shooting at the people coming to help them (if there are any). Kentuckians seem like a strong bunch of people that are able to take care of themselves without "guvmint" help.
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