Report: FEMA Denies Help – Insufficient Damage

Posted on Monday, June 13, 2011 by Post Scripts

Posted by Tina

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Are you kidding me? If this totally demolished home isn’t damaged enough to qualify for help what does?

Read the story in the Mail Online.

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11 Responses to Report: FEMA Denies Help – Insufficient Damage

  1. Toby says:
    Monday, June 13, 2011 at 4:26 pm

    They are the wrong color.

  2. Libby says:
    Monday, June 13, 2011 at 6:38 pm

    I am, yet again, so terribly confused. Are these people NOT supposed to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps?

    Is not the Obama administration the very fount of liberal excess?

    No, alas, our federal government is only the epitome of ineptitude marking all human endeavor, be it publicly or privately funded.

    Will you NEVER see this?

  3. Tina says:
    Monday, June 13, 2011 at 9:24 pm

    Libby: “Are these people NOT supposed to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps?”

    You can’t get the concept because of the nasty little cruelty scales that cover your eyes.

    our federal government is only the epitome of ineptitude marking all human endeavor, be it publicly or privately funded.

    Coming from you Libby this sudden incredulity is a bit much. You have sung the praises of big government from day one.

    Bush’s FEMA was all kind of inept even when everything that could be done was being done but under the magic of Obama no such ineptitude exists even when it is blatantly obvious! This story appeared in a British paper (the photo taken from a local paper in Texas).

    “Will you NEVER see this?”

    We have always said government is innefficient, bloated, and wasteful.

  4. Toby says:
    Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 6:30 am

    Libby you are a joke, a sick joke.

  5. Harriet says:
    Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 10:52 am

    I thought Libby was voicing sarcasm at conservatives, did not think she was serious.

  6. Post Scripts says:
    Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 12:11 pm

    Don’t feel bad Harriet, we’ve all made the same mistake. But, I can assure you Libby is for real even when you think she has to be kidding! lol

  7. Chris says:
    Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 6:38 pm

    The Daily Mail is a tabloid. I’m looking for an actual news source that has reported this story, and I can’t find one. Can anyone provide one for me?

  8. Libby says:
    Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 6:51 pm

    “Coming from you Libby this sudden incredulity is a bit much. You have sung the praises of big government from day one.”

    I hereby challenge you to come up with any assertion by me that our big government is any more effective than the doofus citizens that run it.

    What I assert is that taxes into the kitty more effectively minister to the civic good, than does some high-end, catered fundraiser, wherein the wealthy are feted and 20%, if that, of the take goes to the charity.

  9. Tina says:
    Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 9:07 pm

    Libby: “I hereby challenge you to come up with any assertion by me that our big government is any more effective than the doofus citizens that run it.”

    The phrase that repeats and repeats in my ear is:

    “You’ll pay it and like it!” delivered with an amazing harumph! That’s constitutes support for big government in my book.

    “What I assert is that taxes into the kitty more effectively minister to the civic good, than does some high-end, catered fundraiser, wherein the wealthy are feted and 20%, if that, of the take goes to the charity.”

    Well you’d be wrong about that both in emergency situations and help for the poor.

    http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=4827

    While the response to hurricane Katrina has uncovered failures of government at every level – federal, state, and local – it has also revealed again the amazing generosity and effectiveness of America’s private charitable efforts. America is the most generous nation on earth. And we are proving it. From Hollywood glitterati to school-children in rural Georgia; from wealthy executives to men and women on the assemblyline; in our churches, mosques, and synagogues; and in a thousand other ways, we are reaching deep in our pockets and giving.

    Within two weeks of the disaster, Americans had already contributed more than $600 million to relief efforts. They’ve kicked in another $100 million of “in-kind” donations. Private schools are offering tuition-free education to the children of survivors. Countless Americans have volunteered time and effort. Others have opened their homes to the displaced, donated blood, and helped in other ways large and small.

    American business is doing its part, too. Wal-Mart, so reviled by the American left, not only donated $20 million in cash, 1,500 truckloads of free merchandise, and food for 100,000 meals, it promised a job for every one of its displaced workers no matter where in the country they end up. At least 90 corporations have donated at least $1 million each, many far more than that. Many companies in Louisiana and Mississippi have promised to continue paying their workers, even if their stores or businesses were wiped out. …

    Moreover, private charity has long been recognized as more effective and efficient than government welfare programs. Local churches and community groups are the best positioned to understand the needs in their respective areas, and can direct money or services to where they are most useful.

    Private charities are generally far more flexible than government agencies, which are frequently bogged down in red tape and regulations. – Michael Tanner, director of health and welfare studies at the Cato Institute and author of ‘The Poverty of Welfare: Helping Others in Civil Society.’

    I can direct my own dollars to private charity…not so with government. I can observe the effectiveness of programs and donate or withold my money based on performance…not so with government.

    A lot of volunteers work in private charitable work. This makes it a more personal endeavor and keeps costs down.

    Government directors are paid on average about $240K. Private charities average about the same.

    (There are, as you have said, bad apples in every barrel)

    Rich people involved in philanthropy should be thanked…not desparaged, for pity’s sake!

  10. Libby says:
    Thursday, June 16, 2011 at 3:48 pm

    “Bush’s FEMA was all kind of inept even when everything that could be done was being done but under the magic of Obama no such ineptitude exists even when it is blatantly obvious!”

    How says this? The only person saying this is Post Scripts … re-posting this piece like it is some ineptitude peculiar to a democratic administration. It’s not. It’s quite common in all human endeavors, public and private, Dem and Repug. But you have to admit, that Katrina fiasco will hold the crown for some years to come.

  11. Tina says:
    Friday, June 17, 2011 at 10:33 am

    Katrina was a huge disaster on many levels. Democrat governors and mayors were particularly inept. But the most obvious failures came from a media that put its agenda to hurt a sitting president above any obligation to inform the public or assist the many people who volnteered time, energy, and money in helping those people.

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