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Title: Ron Paul On Hurricane Response: "We Should Be Like 1900"
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SALON
URL Source: http://www.salon.com/news/ron_paul/ ... 2011/08/26/ron_paul_hurricanes
Published: Aug 26, 2011
Author: Alex Pareene
Post Date: 2011-08-26 21:48:24 by Brian S
Keywords: None
Views: 2868
Comments: 3
Ron Paul has a hurricane response plan: After a lunch speech today, Ron Paul slammed the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, and said that no national response to Hurricane Irene is necessary. "We should be like 1900; we should be like 1940, 1950, 1960," Paul said. "I live on the Gulf Coast; we deal with hurricanes all the time. Galveston is in my district. (Galveston is in his district! Not that he spends a lot of time there.) Paul doesn't support FEMA because of "moral hazard." The fact that people will receive help should a natural disaster strike encourages people to live where natural disaster happen. (Like "North America.") Paul is mostly talking about the National Flood Insurance Program, which definitely has glaring flaws as public policy, but abolishing the federal agency in charge of responding to natural disasters instead of fixing the problems with one program that agency oversees seems like overkill. It's very old news that Ron Paul thinks we should abolish FEMA, it's just rare that you hear anyone say we should go back to the good old days of disaster response and management. "We should be like 1900" is a very illuminating statement. Back in those days, after hurricanes would strike, communities would remain devastated, with thousands of people homeless and hungry, for weeks. And eventually they would beg the Federal War Department for help. (But they all enjoyed their liberty, as they waited in filth and disease for help from Uncle Sam.)
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#1. To: Brian S, *Ron Paul for President* (#0)
As if the Wall Street banksters haven't already sucked up enough billions in bailouts, now they want a bailout for living in hurricane alley NYC? Forget it, let em swim!
Obama's watch stopped on 24 May 2008, but he's been too busy smoking crack to notice.
Here's how Galveston dealt with the 1900 hurricane that killed thousands and destroyed most of the city: Tagline for sale - inquire within
Doesn't matter now. All infrastructure is being knocked down, ripped away and not repaired. Paul's 'dream' is coming true. 50% of Americans can't get $1000 together in a week. Which means at least 50% of the 60 million from SC to Canada can't afford to move. The gov't will have to pay to clean off their 'homes'... We're a Command Economy now wether anyone realizes it or not.
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#2. To: Brian S (#0)
The dead bodies were so numerous that burying them all was not possible. The dead were initially weighted down and dumped at sea, but when the gulf currents washed many of the bodies back onto the beach, a new solution was needed. Funeral pyres were set up wherever the dead were found and burned for weeks after the storm. The authorities passed out free whiskey to sustain the distraught men conscripted for the gruesome work of collecting and burning the dead.
#3. To: hondo68 (#1)
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