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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Subject: Re: If You Want to be Mad About FEMA Spending
Date: 10/04/24 4:23 PM
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bighairymike: But the orange Satan has not yet done so. So are you claiming that unfulfilled dream protects the current administration from any criticism for botching the FEMA response?

Open your eyes, people are dying down there. None of us should be quibbling about funding constraints. Where are the convoys of food, water, heavy equipment, helicopters, generators, chainsaw brigades, food trucks, and so on.


Botched? C'mon. Are you really this gullible, this easily manipulated?

More than 3,500 individuals from across the federal workforce -- including Urban Search and Rescue personnel with high water rescue equipment for rescue missions across the region -- are deployed and supporting Hurricane Helene response efforts across the impacted states.

Over 1,250 Urban Search and Rescue personnel are deployed across Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee.

The Department of Defense has provided 30 high-water trucks and 18 helicopters.

At least 50,000 personnel from 34 states and the District of Columbia and Canada have responded to power outages and worked around the clock throughout parts of Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina.

FEMA has sent generators, 150 ambulances, over 1.9 million meals, and more than 1 million liters of water.

Republican South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster said that federal assistance had “been superb.”

Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin said, “I’m incredibly appreciative of the rapid response and the cooperation from the federal team at FEMA.”

Republican Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee said that the response to his emergency declaration “was quick from the federal government,” adding there was “a fast turnaround, frankly,” and praised the “coordinated effort.”

North Carolina governor Cooper said, “I briefed President Biden and Vice President Harris each on two occasions, and they have committed every resource available to this recovery. I appreciate the president’s quick approval of our major disaster declaration this weekend and his direction that FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell will continue to be here on the ground.”

But, yeah, sure, you saw it on television where Trump saw that Haitians migrants are eating the dogs, eating the cats, where they're eating the pets.

Sheesh. You are so deep in the cult you've lost all touch with reality.
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