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What??? FEMA may have to wait for money until the Politicians settle spending issues
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<blockquote data-quote="witzend" data-source="post: 456974" data-attributes="member: 99"><p>I just can't understand how <em>anyone</em> would think that withholding funds in an emergency is the right thing to do - morally OR politically. I hope people are paying attention to who it is that is suggesting this, and will vote those people and the parties that support them out of office. Maybe the hurricane didn't hit your street this year. Maybe you're never going to be hit by a hurricane. But I know it rains where you live and sometimes it floods. I know some of you have earthquakes, and some of you have droughts. </p><p></p><p>Let's get a grip, people. Taxing and spending is what all governments have done throughout history. Benevolent governments tax fairly and spend for the good of all. Are there bad seeds and is there waste? Yes. The answer to that is to get rid of the waste and the bad sees, not stop collecting taxes and stop building infrastructure after a disaster.</p><p></p><p>Bad governments give tax breaks to those who can afford to build their own streets and their own electrical generators and their own water purification/delivery plants and spend nothing on the rest. I'm a Democrat because if I registered as an Independent I couldn't vote in the primaries. I used to vote for Republicans when there were Republicans to vote for. I don't know <em>who those people are,</em> but they are <u>not</u> the "fiscal conservative" Republicans that I grew up with. Fiscally responsible people don't refuse income, and refusing to ask the wealthiest among us to give up some of their unearned tax breaks is refusing income. Income that as a UNITED nation we share in times of trouble. We don't hold people in Virginia hostage because some fat cat in California wants a bigger yacht that he can list as his primary residence and write off his taxes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="witzend, post: 456974, member: 99"] I just can't understand how [I]anyone[/I] would think that withholding funds in an emergency is the right thing to do - morally OR politically. I hope people are paying attention to who it is that is suggesting this, and will vote those people and the parties that support them out of office. Maybe the hurricane didn't hit your street this year. Maybe you're never going to be hit by a hurricane. But I know it rains where you live and sometimes it floods. I know some of you have earthquakes, and some of you have droughts. Let's get a grip, people. Taxing and spending is what all governments have done throughout history. Benevolent governments tax fairly and spend for the good of all. Are there bad seeds and is there waste? Yes. The answer to that is to get rid of the waste and the bad sees, not stop collecting taxes and stop building infrastructure after a disaster. Bad governments give tax breaks to those who can afford to build their own streets and their own electrical generators and their own water purification/delivery plants and spend nothing on the rest. I'm a Democrat because if I registered as an Independent I couldn't vote in the primaries. I used to vote for Republicans when there were Republicans to vote for. I don't know [I]who those people are,[/I] but they are [U]not[/U] the "fiscal conservative" Republicans that I grew up with. Fiscally responsible people don't refuse income, and refusing to ask the wealthiest among us to give up some of their unearned tax breaks is refusing income. Income that as a UNITED nation we share in times of trouble. We don't hold people in Virginia hostage because some fat cat in California wants a bigger yacht that he can list as his primary residence and write off his taxes. [/QUOTE]
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