Fed, state, local AID

[39mto39g]

What is your opinion on air to declaired desater area. Who has the responciblity to help, How much help and for how long.

Ron

[39mto39g]

I can't edit ,so the air should be aid

Ron

[BLUEHAWK]

Originally posted by 39mto39g What is your opinion on aid to declaired desater area. Who has the responciblity to help, How much help and for how long.

Ron

We're all in this together, for as long and as much as it takes, each according to our resources, our skills and our abilities.

[39mto39g]

I guess nobody cares where they spend your 300 billion .
So, never mind.

Ron

[BLUEHAWK]

Originally posted by 39mto39g I guess nobody cares where they spend your 300 billion .
So, never mind.

Ron

Everybody does care, one would think.

What we can DO about those allocations does appear to be almost totally out of our hands.

Yes, we are a Federalist Republic... which means that our duly elected representatives are sent to Congress and other places to carry out the wishes of those whom they represent... except that as soon as they get there, they begin to "vote their own conscience."

Right?

[39mto39g]

and just what is we can do about any subject that is possed on this sight, nothing

Ron

[MORTARDUDE]

Wrong. We all still have the power of our vote and the freedom ( last time I checked ) to influence others.

Larry

[BLUEHAWK]

Originally posted by 39mto39g and just what is we can do about any subject that is possed on this sight, nothing

Ron

The vote is one sure thing, and the good will and honorable intentions of those for whom we vote, and for us to remain as well informed as we can be by talking amongst ourselves, like we do here.

[rotorwash]

Ron, the way it is set up by law is that the city (assuming you are talking about NO) must respond to the limit of their resources, then ask for state aid. When the state is in danger of exhausting their resources then and only then can the feds step in. If the city never asks, then the state can do nothing. If the state never ask, the fed gov't can do nothing. Unless each level of gov't asks for help, it must be assumed that they are capable of handling the problem. It was a few days before No asked for help and a few days more before LA asked for help, until then the Feds could do nothing. Of course a little preliminary planning could have gone a long way.

The only way the Feds could have gotten in earlier is if the levees that collapsed were Federally owned, they weren't, they were owned by the city.

Rotorwash

[BLUEHAWK]

And... the one Federal agency who is NOT limited by the posse comitatus or other rulings DID absolutely "get in there" almost instantly, permission be damned.

I refer to the United States Coast Guard. Perhaps there is a lesson in Federalism to be learned there?

Recently, in a survey, the four major ethnic groups were asked if they would rely mainly upon themselves and family, or upon the government in time of disaster.

At the low end, the blacks said 17% would rely upon government, and at the high end only 23% of asians said they would.

What does this tell us?