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Privatizing FEMA Proves Once Again to Be a Bad Idea

Dickieboy said:
YOU are making fun of someone making a donation to help hurricane victims...pathetic
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Actually he is making fun of the person that said he wasn't making a donation to Red Cross. You know, the one who is going to donate his money instead to Akin and Murdouck's campaign.
 
jonny5 said:
Compared to what days?

Interestinly on the news this morning they were saying that insurers are trying to claim the deductible for hurricane damage, and the state is forcing them to waive it because it wasnt 'technically' a hurricane when it came on shore (by govt standards).
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As opposed to the days when I was growing up. Winter was cold and we got maybe one big snowfall, there weren't constant huge weather systems that upended people everywhere, we were lucky to get one snow day; tornadoes, snowstorms and hurricanes. Spring brought rain and fall meant the leaves fell and things got cooler in time for winter.

Our local high school has been closed four days due to lack of power. That's over a thousand kids losing 4 days of school, and we have a pretty good school system, as far as public schools go.

Weather today has become hellacious. Is it just the usual change of weather or something man-made? Regardless, life is changing due to climate change, regardless of what is causing it.
 
Uzidoesit said:
As opposed to the days when I was growing up. Winter was cold and we got maybe one big snowfall, there weren't constant huge weather systems that upended people everywhere, we were lucky to get one snow day; tornadoes, snowstorms and hurricanes. Spring brought rain and fall meant the leaves fell and things got cooler in time for winter.

Our local high school has been closed four days due to lack of power. That's over a thousand kids losing 4 days of school, and we have a pretty good school system, as far as public schools go.

Weather today has become hellacious. Is it just the usual change of weather or something man-made? Regardless, life is changing due to climate change, regardless of what is causing it.
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Maybe youre remembering it wrong, or using too short a time frame.
 
mertex said:
Probably spoken by someone that has never experienced a dismal situation as the people in NJ.
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Nope, coming from someone that lived 2 miles north of the northern eyewall path of Hurricane Andrew, a Cat 5 storm. Someone who resided in South Florida from 99-06 during some of the busiest hurricane seasons in recent history.

Don't make assumptions as....nevermind, don't need another infraction.

And I will ask, what exactly in my post would bring you do believe that I don't sympathize with those effected by this storm? Not supporting FEMA and its modern role in disaster response isn't equivallent to not giving a crap about disaster victims. Its petty and quite disengenuous debate tactic.
 
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jonny5 said:
Maybe youre remembering it wrong, or using too short a time frame.
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Middle Atlantic States, aside from the coastline, has ever since I can remember, had quite fairly boring weather. Until the blizzard of 1997, kids had almost forgotten what a good snowfall was all about. I remember stuffs quite clearly.
 
Fishstyx said:
Problem is, FEMA has morphed into something it was never intended to be. Its intention was to assist State's responses, particularly in the dispensing of emergency funds. It was never meant to be a "boots on the ground, first responder."
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Fishstyx said:
Nope, coming from someone that lived 2 miles north of the northern eyewall path of Hurricane Andrew, a Cat 5 storm. Someone who resided in South Florida from 99-06 during some of the busiest hurricane seasons in recent history.
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Yes, Florida is accustomed to prepare for Hurricanes, it's not like unusual for them. How many hurricanes have ever hit NJ in your lifetime? Your comment that it was intended to only provide money may be why Bush's dismal failure in dealing with Katrina. You can't throw money at people that are drowning, dying of thirst and hunger and stranded on rooftops.

Don't make assumptions as....nevermind, don't need another infraction.
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I'm just going by what you said.

And I will ask, what exactly in my post would bring you do believe that I don't sympathize with those effected by this storm? Not supporting FEMA and its modern role in disaster response isn't equivallent to not giving a crap about disaster victims. Its petty and quite disengenuous debate tactic.
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Perhaps your comment that Fema shouldn't be "boots on the ground"? - Sounds like you're saying "let the people affected muddle through it as best they can, just throw some money at them".
 
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