Hurricane Sandy: If Romney Was President, FEMA Wouldn't Be There.

Let the local communities private businesses deal with the storm. That's what he said.

And he is right. It is the best way to get rid of the competition!!!

And the businesses that fail will be a good opportunity for Bain Capital.

Only benefits from this storm!!!

That's the way Mitt likes it: "Heads, I win; tails, you lose."

Remember the Joplin MO tornado? The Virginia earthquake? And Cantor tried to hold disaster relief for these areas, one of them being part of his district, hostage? These are the greediest jerks alive--we've got ours and want yours and we're not gonna give you one iota of help if we can get out of it. So disgusting.

Spot on Kim, & FEMA will be there to continue help long after the disaster passes.

But you can be sure that LOTS of Republicans who will vote for Romney will be clamoring for help from FEMA. For some reason they don't get it...they want government help, but don't want to pay taxes to support government.

Or like the Tea Party lady who screamed "Tell the gov't. to stay away from my Medicare!" eh, Bert?

Yeah...I got a laugh out of that.

Of course they will. It's only bad when the government helps other people.

Don't worry. Obama will protect everyone - just like he protected Ambassador Stevens.

If he has nothing,then why bother to comment.... Go ahead answer it...
A good one Ken... and lets not forget the Fast and Furious cover up...

As always,John, thanks for your snappy though empty rejoinder.
Actually I have (by virtue of a government purchase agreement) the opportunity to pay to have the FEMA parent agency [Dept of Homeland Security] buy 450 millions rounds of 40 caliber ammunition. 450 million rounds. Isn't that great! Do you suppose the State agencies don't ALSO make ammunition purchases? Essentially redundant purchases. What Romney said was exactly correct. We have to be smarter in how we spend money.
http://westmoreland.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=642&Itemid=372
Wake up.

LOL...So that is why you are such a douche, you verify all your info from Southern Rethuglicans who conspire against the 53% of America who actually love this Nation and respect our neighbors. Not the fear and race baiting southern whites who are insulted by the presence of anyone non-white.

I knew if I waited long enough I would reveal your low level sources of information. I cannot say it was enjoyable, just informative and correct!

J , I noticed that you didn't say the info presented was wrong - only that you didn't like the source - all sprinkled together with the usual (but tiresome and unnecessary) invective and insults.

Actually this is just God's wrath against Wall Street.

Wow! Apparently, God's got really bad aim!! It stands to reason He would devastate millions of acres of land filled with innocent people rather than waste His time with a single, far more precise lightening bolt--or did Obama perhaps order HAARP to harness it, knowing, of course, exactly when & where God would plan to strike, & expand it into a hurricane purely to make himself look good to Christie?

Mittens rolls back yet another claim. Now he is claiming not to dismantle FEMA but to send it to the states---right that should fix everything. WRONG! Privatizing what any Gov. entity does is a proposition for failure. Can you say 'Big Dig' a Bain heavily contracted venture? Billions spent reworking poor materials (one woman died traveling through the tunnel due to faulty epoxy). Mittens is lost in Yonkers when it comes to Government, as he attempts to force it to resemble his style of Business model.

Today: From Mittens

“Absolutely. And every time you have an occasion to take something from the federal government and send it back to the states, that’s the right direction. And if you can go even further and send it back to the private sector, that’s even better,” Romney responded.
“Instead of thinking in the federal budget, ‘What we should cut?’ we should ask ourselves the opposite question, ‘What should we keep?’ We should take all of what we’re doing at the federal level and say, ‘What are the things we’re doing that we don’t have to do?’ And those things we’ve got to stop doing,” Romney continued.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1012/83001.html#ixzz2AidVLjH4

They do have that delusion that state governments are somehow more efficient and caring than the federal government.

I really cannot say what inspires 'they' to be so delusional. As things go they rile against all reality, Federal especially. Reagan had Alzheimer's and Romney has Romnesia, the GOP is adept at finding puppets to do their bidding.

Romney's Immoral statement



http://youtu.be/OhXyJeKaj8E

Seems to me that disaster relief on a large scale is an interstate commerce related question. We need to be able to coordinate things across state lines, if nothing else, to promote interstate commerce in ways like making it possible for businesses to ship goods with minimal interruptions and enable people to work. Oh yeah, there's the humanitarian part. Seems to me that that's a pretty clear cut general welfare thing.

Turning stuff that affects multiple states over to individual states invites inefficiencies, differences in strength of response, and duplication of effort. It may even result in states competing for resources in ways that result in winners and losers.

Yup, great idea, highly practical.

That says it all nNppy. It would be virtually impossible to provide adequate help & protection on a state-by-state basis or by a private entity.

When he was Governor of Massachusetts, he refused to use state funds to provide disaster relief to people affected by the New England Flood of May 2006.

He is on the record saying "This is a level of crisis which is beyond anything these communities have ever experienced from water in their history" then the next day he was on GMA cracking Noah jokes about it.

Remember, this is the same guy who takes credit for saving the Salt Lake City Winter Olympic Games, but asked for and received a $2.7 billion bailout from the federal government when he couldn't get enough money from corporate sponsors to cover the budget.

Do you have links for your assertions?

Yep.

"The private sector does very well. The government bloats, wastes, and muddles."

Do you have links showing how great the private sector does in places where there is no government?

"Yep."

Not a link.

"Do you have links how great the private sector does in places where there is no government?"

....now that's just an absolutely moronic statement.....try another diversion tactic or just get down to the real nitty gritty of government waste this conversation could have discussed ....once again.....the nose in the hiney hole is revealed and another case of Parcopresis will go without proper treatment......woohooo Wil.....pull your nose out first.....baby steps lead to cures.

"Where's YOUR link? I post one when you post one."

I provided a link. Now it's your turn.

"Besides, you haven't addressed my other points. Do you not wish to?"

If you made other points related to Mitt Romney's position on eliminating FEMA, I haven't seen them. If you're referring to your various off-topic comments, then no, I don't particularly want to address them. It looks like you're using some sort of right-wing rant generator, and I have no interest in seeing how deep that rabbit hole goes.

Nice try Wil. It ain't easy trying to reason with a brick wall is it? LOL.

Amen to that, Jim.

Seems to me that there was quite a lot of talk about how efficient Wal Mart was during the Hurricane Katrina disaster. Some people went to far as to suggest the private sector was better equiped than government to handle future disasters. It sure didn't help that FEMA really dropped the ball with Katrina.

On a more serious level, I would hate to have to rely on Wal Mart for disaster relief. I know that the government won't be trying to make a profit from the misery of the people.

You could spend hours....no.....months providing links to all the government waste Danielle.....I would add to your correct statement that the private sector would handle finances and "things" more efficiently than our government that volunteers representing instead of paid hacks and the elimination of lobbyists from the face of politics would be the next two major steps in the advancement the elimination of the waste......for the bigger part of the argument, at least Obama has proven that some acclaimed brilliant across the aisle champion of a politician who can bring "Hope" and real "Change" to DC is just another bloviated claim to fake fame and another ignorant rounding up of the sheeple out there that results in the same old--same old......LOL.....the ignorance of the Obama defender is not only amusing.....it's COSTLY......and WASTEFUL~~ the irony is almost too much to handle.

One thing government agencies have which the private sector doesn't is the military. I sure wouldn't want the private sector calling out their security services to enforce order or quell riots during an emergency or disaster.

LT, is sure is but an incredible number of people accept it without question.

If we left everything up to private enterprise, we would still be using rotary dial phones, driving gas guzzling V-8s, and still have only three TV channels, four if you include PBS. On the other hand, we would probably still be fed well on flights. People seem to be unaware that private enterprise is all about cornering the market for themselves then protecting their market share. It was government breaking up monopolies which triggered so much innovation. Government set standards for gas mileage and auto makers howled that they couldn't ever meet the new standards.

"Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely."

Remember how the right wing Tea Baggers repeatedly attacked President Obama with all kinds of stupid insinuations and racist placards?

What made them shut their stupid mouths?

It took the New Orleans oil disaster. The federal government under Obama saved their bigoted asses and they became silent ever since.

Same thing here. The right wingers like that jackass governor of New Jersey have been attacking the president. Now that he has saved their sorry asses, the critics are silent again.

Wait - so - there were these teabaggERS - and you can swear to it - does that mean you were the teabaggEE?

JUst want to get it right - would hate to accuse of being on the wrong end of "the bag".

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For those of you who say there is too much government, count your blessings.

Wow! Romney must REALLY be worried. He has called out all the right wingnut trolls en masse!

No kidding...they are definitely in panic mode.