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President Donald Trump spoke to the media about FEMA:
So we want to wean off of FEMA and we want to bring it down to the state level, a little bit like education. We’re moving it back to the states so the governors can handle. That’s why they’re governors now. If they can’t handle it they shouldn’t be governor.And, but these governors can handle it, and they’ll work in conjunction with other governors. They’ll give each other a hand.But the FEMA thing has not been a very successful experiment. Very expensive, and it doesn’t get the job done. You saw what happened in North Carolina under the past administration, and when we got in, we did a great job for North Carolina. Brought it back, but it was a disaster, FEMA.And it has not worked out well. It’s extremely expensive.
It makes me mad whenever Oklahoma has a destructive tornado and the state asks for federal help.
Everyone knows Oklahoma is a hotspot for tornadoes. The government should establish a fund specifically for tornado relief. It infuriates me that the Oklahoma government does not budget.
Unless the natural disaster is unprecedented, such as Hurricane Helene, the federal government should not intervene.
Even then, it should be minimal.
President Calvin Coolidge (the only decent president we’ve had besides George Washington) received criticism for his response to the 1927 Mississippi flood:
On April 22, 1927, President Calvin Coolidge issued a proclamation to the nation. He declared, “The Government is giving such aid as lies within its powers …. But the burden of caring for the homeless rests upon the agency designated by Government charter to provide relief in disaster — the American National Red Cross.” He made no mention of emergency appropriations. Rather, Coolidge, as President of the United States and the Red Cross, asked for the public to donate $5 million [$55.9 million in 2005 dollars] to the Red Cross. Additionally, the President created a quasi governmental commission to assist the Red Cross in the relief effort.
Coolidge relented a little bit, but not enough to where a state would depend solely on the government after a natural disaster.
Coolidge knew helping too much would lead other states to expect the federal government to step in.
Also, taxes. Why should people not affected by the disaster pay for the recovery? They shouldn’t:
Another concern was taxes. When Coolidge was a boy, he attended a town meeting with his father in their hamlet of Plymouth Notch, Vermont. Some locals proposed to raise the tax rate to reduce the town’s debt, which had grown after a disastrous freshet. Young Calvin noticed that his father did not vote to increase the tax rate. When he asked why, the elder Coolidge explained that he “did not wish to place so large a burden on those who were less able” to pay.The lesson stuck with Calvin Coolidge. As president, he rejected recovery-intended tax increases, believing them to be “unfair” to taxpayers. Only the affected should bear the burden of expenses, Coolidge concluded.
Stop relying on the federal government.
My gosh, I wish Trump would just go Javier Milei and take a chainsaw to everything.
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