Originally posted by BOFH:
Read much, congress authorized 10 BILLION

Money is authorized by congress, not the president. The president can ask, but cannot force congress to spend a dime.

The Army cannot just go into a state. The state has to REQUEST federal assistance.

Those asking about proactive measures, please show me where any of the states proactively asked the federal government to position troops, supplies or anything else in their state?

If you can demonstrate that they asked for the kind of assistance in advance, I'll take up the fight that the Federal government screwed up.

If the states didn't ask ahead of time for the aid many are crying here about the federal government being slow to provide, then stop whining about the federal government being screwed up.

I'm not a big fan of large central government, these issues should be state issues.

Each state should be resonsible for it's own disaster planning and preparation, not the federal government.

The federal government should cover the states if legitimate well concieved plans fail.

But no blame should fall on the federal government if states didn't adequately prepare in advance for this.

What was LA plan for a CAT 4 or CAT 5 hurricane?
How about AL or MS?

We will all help, but it's not the job of the federal government to do the work of the states.

Finally, I don't wish this to sound like I don't want the federal government helping, because I see it as the only solution. I simply don't want to see the blame shifted from those on the ground who are directly responsible for the safety of their citizens, the state and local governments.

T



This bears repeating.

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