Anonymous
Post 03/23/2025 22:34     Subject: FEMA shifted to states?
Anonymous wrote:The problem is if you keep FEMA you’re acknowledging the federal government is useful for something, and you have to pay for it. That doesn’t fit with conservative thinking, so it’s more convenient to let the individual states handle it. More people suffer and die, but that’s ok with them.


Well Missouri has requested federal assistance in determining damage from the tornadoes in preparation for a federal disaster declaration. You can’t have it both ways. Either we are “one nation with liberty and justice for all” or we’re not.
Anonymous
Post 03/23/2025 21:31     Subject: Re:FEMA shifted to states?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:If people can’t rebuild, the land is cheap and developers can swoop in and buy the land for cheap.

Gee, who do you think benefits from this?

+1


Wasn’t that more or less of plot of the movie Twisters last year?
Anonymous
Post 03/23/2025 15:00     Subject: FEMA shifted to states?
The problem is if you keep FEMA you’re acknowledging the federal government is useful for something, and you have to pay for it. That doesn’t fit with conservative thinking, so it’s more convenient to let the individual states handle it. More people suffer and die, but that’s ok with them.
Anonymous
Post 03/23/2025 14:52     Subject: FEMA shifted to states?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain to me, as if I am a five year old, how having a single, centralized FEMA is less efficient than having 50 separate FEMAs running in parallel with each other?

It won’t be. That’s utter fiction. Now disaster relief will work the same way that trying to obtain ventilators and PPE worked during Covid, when Trump told states to handle it on their own: if multiple states are hit by a powerful hurricane or a series of tornadoes, they’ll all be bidding on the same resources, driving up the cost for each other. Some states will have stockpiles of bottled water and others will run out and have to figure out how to get more and distribute it in areas with no electricity and many road closures.


Resources have to be brought in from all over the country in emergencies qualifying as disasters.


You think a state is going to share bottled water and cots with another state? We’re going to be operating like small countries. People now are mad about a penny going to help people in Africa. You think people are going to be okay sending resources to other states? I think, if anything, we’ll see regions sharing based on interests, so blue NE states sharing with each other, and southern red states sharing.
Anonymous
Post 03/23/2025 14:45     Subject: FEMA shifted to states?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain to me, as if I am a five year old, how having a single, centralized FEMA is less efficient than having 50 separate FEMAs running in parallel with each other?

It won’t be. That’s utter fiction. Now disaster relief will work the same way that trying to obtain ventilators and PPE worked during Covid, when Trump told states to handle it on their own: if multiple states are hit by a powerful hurricane or a series of tornadoes, they’ll all be bidding on the same resources, driving up the cost for each other. Some states will have stockpiles of bottled water and others will run out and have to figure out how to get more and distribute it in areas with no electricity and many road closures.


Resources have to be brought in from all over the country in emergencies qualifying as disasters.


Let people use churches and stuff. Who cares if red poor red states have problems? Let’s go back to a time when people were expected to care for themselves.


Who do you think cleared roads in NC?
Anonymous
Post 03/23/2025 14:40     Subject: Re:FEMA shifted to states?
Anonymous wrote:Boy do I fear for the poor yokels in the Carolinas and Mississippi. But they keep voting for incompetent red governments that funnel aid to their rich buddies, so I guess they don’t fear for themselves.


yes, bad for Louisianna, Mississippi, Florida, Calfornia. good for most everybody else.
Anonymous
Post 03/21/2025 19:05     Subject: FEMA shifted to states?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain to me, as if I am a five year old, how having a single, centralized FEMA is less efficient than having 50 separate FEMAs running in parallel with each other?

It won’t be. That’s utter fiction. Now disaster relief will work the same way that trying to obtain ventilators and PPE worked during Covid, when Trump told states to handle it on their own: if multiple states are hit by a powerful hurricane or a series of tornadoes, they’ll all be bidding on the same resources, driving up the cost for each other. Some states will have stockpiles of bottled water and others will run out and have to figure out how to get more and distribute it in areas with no electricity and many road closures.


Resources have to be brought in from all over the country in emergencies qualifying as disasters.


Let people use churches and stuff. Who cares if red poor red states have problems? Let’s go back to a time when people were expected to care for themselves.


"Ignore the fact that you were stuck on your roof in a flood with nothing to eat for five days and now your house is ruined. Pull yourselves up by your bootstraps you whiny losers!"


Yes, that is what Republicans are saying.
Anonymous
Post 03/21/2025 18:30     Subject: FEMA shifted to states?
Tots and pears.
Anonymous
Post 03/21/2025 18:30     Subject: FEMA shifted to states?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain to me, as if I am a five year old, how having a single, centralized FEMA is less efficient than having 50 separate FEMAs running in parallel with each other?

It won’t be. That’s utter fiction. Now disaster relief will work the same way that trying to obtain ventilators and PPE worked during Covid, when Trump told states to handle it on their own: if multiple states are hit by a powerful hurricane or a series of tornadoes, they’ll all be bidding on the same resources, driving up the cost for each other. Some states will have stockpiles of bottled water and others will run out and have to figure out how to get more and distribute it in areas with no electricity and many road closures.


Resources have to be brought in from all over the country in emergencies qualifying as disasters.


Let people use churches and stuff. Who cares if red poor red states have problems? Let’s go back to a time when people were expected to care for themselves.


"Ignore the fact that you were stuck on your roof in a flood with nothing to eat for five days and now your house is ruined. Pull yourselves up by your bootstraps you whiny losers!"
Anonymous
Post 03/21/2025 17:21     Subject: Re:FEMA shifted to states?
Anonymous wrote:If people can’t rebuild, the land is cheap and developers can swoop in and buy the land for cheap.

Gee, who do you think benefits from this?

+1
Anonymous
Post 03/21/2025 17:06     Subject: FEMA shifted to states?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain to me, as if I am a five year old, how having a single, centralized FEMA is less efficient than having 50 separate FEMAs running in parallel with each other?

It won’t be. That’s utter fiction. Now disaster relief will work the same way that trying to obtain ventilators and PPE worked during Covid, when Trump told states to handle it on their own: if multiple states are hit by a powerful hurricane or a series of tornadoes, they’ll all be bidding on the same resources, driving up the cost for each other. Some states will have stockpiles of bottled water and others will run out and have to figure out how to get more and distribute it in areas with no electricity and many road closures.


Resources have to be brought in from all over the country in emergencies qualifying as disasters.


Let people use churches and stuff. Who cares if red poor red states have problems? Let’s go back to a time when people were expected to care for themselves.
Anonymous
Post 03/21/2025 16:43     Subject: FEMA shifted to states?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain to me, as if I am a five year old, how having a single, centralized FEMA is less efficient than having 50 separate FEMAs running in parallel with each other?

It won’t be. That’s utter fiction. Now disaster relief will work the same way that trying to obtain ventilators and PPE worked during Covid, when Trump told states to handle it on their own: if multiple states are hit by a powerful hurricane or a series of tornadoes, they’ll all be bidding on the same resources, driving up the cost for each other. Some states will have stockpiles of bottled water and others will run out and have to figure out how to get more and distribute it in areas with no electricity and many road closures.


Resources have to be brought in from all over the country in emergencies qualifying as disasters.


That's not going to work so well when each state has to fend for itself the way Trump wants it to be.

Anonymous
Post 03/21/2025 16:19     Subject: FEMA shifted to states?
It’s almost all red states that have weather disasters. Northern states might have a rare weather disaster but the yearly hurricanes, flooding, tornadoes are Southern and Midwest problems. They should be fine with this.
Anonymous
Post 03/21/2025 15:45     Subject: FEMA shifted to states?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain to me, as if I am a five year old, how having a single, centralized FEMA is less efficient than having 50 separate FEMAs running in parallel with each other?

It won’t be. That’s utter fiction. Now disaster relief will work the same way that trying to obtain ventilators and PPE worked during Covid, when Trump told states to handle it on their own: if multiple states are hit by a powerful hurricane or a series of tornadoes, they’ll all be bidding on the same resources, driving up the cost for each other. Some states will have stockpiles of bottled water and others will run out and have to figure out how to get more and distribute it in areas with no electricity and many road closures.


Resources have to be brought in from all over the country in emergencies qualifying as disasters.