Ron Paul: FEMA Is the Real Disaster

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Fox News:

Even before Hurricane Irene hit the U.S. East Coast, the Federal Emergency Management Agency was preparing to mitigate its devastating impact, spending from its $800 million relief fund to assist communities.

But the real disaster may just be the agency itself, Rep. Ron Paul said Sunday.

The Republican presidential candidate, who represents the 14th Congressional District that runs partly along the Gulf of Mexico in Texas, argued that the temporary aid provided by FEMA has helped ruin the economy by creating a false dependency.

"FEMA has been around since 1978, it has one of the worst reputations for a bureaucracy ever," Paul said. "It's a system of bureaucratic central economic planning, which is a policy that is deeply flawed."

Paul spoke to "Fox News Sunday" shortly after FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate reviewed a series of actions in response to Hurricane Irene taken on the orders of President Obama. Combined with other recent natural disasters, Fugate said the agency has enough in its immediate bank account to respond to communities seeking help, but how much will be needed afterward is unknown.

"How much damages and recovery and building costs will determine how much funds we're going to need, and we won't know that until we actually get out and see some of the damages, and get some of the damage assessment," Fugate said. "But for the response piece, we do have the funds there to go and we are committing those resources even as Irene continues to move up the coast."

North Carolina and Virginia were hardest hit during the weekend storm, with 11 deaths up and down the coast, more than 4 million people without power, devastation to coastal cities and countless floods in homes and businesses. According to Gov. Chris Christie, damage to New Jersey alone could be in the billions, if not tens of billions of dollars.
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Hasn't Ron Paul heard? You can't criticize FEMA in the Obama Era! Besides, Nattering Nagin is now being touted as a hurricane expert by other networks...

[Pepper]

Ron Paul is a disaster.

[SrWoodchuck]

Ron Paul is a disaster.

Pepper! I agree with that & think he has a small chance of helping Obama gain re-election.

 

What I dislike most about him is that he sometimes spews a grain of truth.....enough to temper his wild-eyed lunatic dogma.

 

Ron Paul is halfway correct about FEMA. FEMA was inept before, during and after Katrina. Case in point; "Brownie." Bush was tarred & feathered becuase of FEMA response & because of "Brownie."

 

Now we have a major disaster agency under the aegis of a literal "stooge" [in the style of the "Three Stooges."] The "Three Stooges," at least provided some comic relief. Janet Incompetano is far worse than "Brownie," but with a bigger mandate, and a completely progressive & destructive agenda. She's living disproof of the old axiom, "Poop runs downhill." In her case it travels up and down.

[NCTexan]

OK Guys... this is a test.

 

After studying the picture for 60 seconds... answer the question below.

 

 

This is a picture of:

 

A - The most loyal members of the Ron Paul for President election committee

 

B - The most loyal members of the Obama 2012 reelection committee

 

C - A scene from the cult classic "Night of the Living Dead"

 

D - Impossible to tell