Oh well he’d like to know about the Homeland Security Act of 2002. That’s when we took FEMA and merged it with Department of Homeland Security and mixed all these neat book keeping tricks. Like this one where border patrol has to get money from FEMA for particular payments related to housing capture illegal border crossings.
Now you may ask, “Why on Earth would we do something like that?” Well, because 9/11! That’s why!
Yeah, for the folks who were trying to beg for reason and a level head in the aftermath of the worse terrorist attack on the United States, they would be right up there with Trump about how FEMA since 9/11 has slowly converted into a red tape mess. I don’t think anyone in FEMA will debate that the red tape is a good thing.
But that’s about as far as Trump goes in being right before he gets to:
I’d like to see the states take care of disasters
States WOULD NOT take care of them. They would just create various insurances that they would require citizens to pay into. And then those funds would be at the whim of the State Government not being corrupt, which for the southeastern states (I’m in one of them, Tennessee) that would be like asking a cocaine addict to be in charge of the cocaine evidence.
sniff sniff I have no idea why all these criminals keep going free! sniff snifffffffff
I mean I don’t know, maybe we ought to bring back tar and feathering our local politicians. I thought we could move past that point, but you know, shit sometimes the old ways work best.
FEMA just hasn’t done the job
FEMA has done exactly the job that Congress has legislated them to do. If FEMA is failing in someone’s opinion, we needn’t look any further than Congress.
He also said individual states should be in charge of directing response to natural disasters rather than FEMA, and that the federal government should only step in subsequently to provide funding.
sigh
This is overly simplified. States know best where things are hit hardest and what the priority for rebuilding should be. FEMA will absolutely use their decades of experience in disasters to help state governments get the most out of their funds. If I was to try to make a metaphor here. States are in the driver’s seat, FEMA will act as the GPS, and Congress is the gas tank. FEMA will try to get the most mileage out of your gas tank as possible, but States can totally change course and FEMA will try it’s best to plot a good destination based on the new course given the limited amount of fuel the State has.
As always, it’s a subject that is complex that Trump feels that the complexity doesn’t deserve to be address but instead done away with and make the complexity someone else’s problem.
Oh well he’d like to know about the Homeland Security Act of 2002. That’s when we took FEMA and merged it with Department of Homeland Security and mixed all these neat book keeping tricks. Like this one where border patrol has to get money from FEMA for particular payments related to housing capture illegal border crossings.
Now you may ask, “Why on Earth would we do something like that?” Well, because 9/11! That’s why!
Yeah, for the folks who were trying to beg for reason and a level head in the aftermath of the worse terrorist attack on the United States, they would be right up there with Trump about how FEMA since 9/11 has slowly converted into a red tape mess. I don’t think anyone in FEMA will debate that the red tape is a good thing.
But that’s about as far as Trump goes in being right before he gets to:
States WOULD NOT take care of them. They would just create various insurances that they would require citizens to pay into. And then those funds would be at the whim of the State Government not being corrupt, which for the southeastern states (I’m in one of them, Tennessee) that would be like asking a cocaine addict to be in charge of the cocaine evidence.
sniff sniff I have no idea why all these criminals keep going free! sniff snifffffffff
I mean I don’t know, maybe we ought to bring back tar and feathering our local politicians. I thought we could move past that point, but you know, shit sometimes the old ways work best.
FEMA has done exactly the job that Congress has legislated them to do. If FEMA is failing in someone’s opinion, we needn’t look any further than Congress.
sigh
This is overly simplified. States know best where things are hit hardest and what the priority for rebuilding should be. FEMA will absolutely use their decades of experience in disasters to help state governments get the most out of their funds. If I was to try to make a metaphor here. States are in the driver’s seat, FEMA will act as the GPS, and Congress is the gas tank. FEMA will try to get the most mileage out of your gas tank as possible, but States can totally change course and FEMA will try it’s best to plot a good destination based on the new course given the limited amount of fuel the State has.
As always, it’s a subject that is complex that Trump feels that the complexity doesn’t deserve to be address but instead done away with and make the complexity someone else’s problem.
Just gonna toss the reality that the same group responsible for project 2025 wrote the Patriot act too