We are in Tornado season again.
** Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Missouri, said Monday that local communities are facing “devastation” and that the state will need Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) funding “at the least” after violent tornadoes took dozens of lives over the weekend.**
This will be a good test to see how well government works now.
Will TIG’s person rise to the levels of “heck of a job Brownie”, in 2005?
Steve
Oh, I remember him!!!
He was an expert manager of complex difficult emotionally laden situations, namely the “International Arabian Horse Association”, that honestly (as a “jugger” from my three years experience from 2 to 3 AM at horse show events, a guy who amongst other things [discretely getting horse owners even more drunk and then out of the way] held a jug of IV meds nice and high for illegal “juicing” of horses out of view of pesky authorities) was perfect training for dealing with political hissy fits, but absolutely not ready to manage actual real world disasters.
Red states will get FEMA aid. Blue states like CA after the fires are on their own. What a way to run a country.
Hawley is a big government guy, I guess. Maybe he skipped economics in all of his studies.
I see an opportunity for the free market.
Go ahead and DOGE FEMA, send everyone a tax cut for the savings ($25 per household, ballpark - $3.2 billion FEMA budget for 131 million households).
Then let the invisible hand of Adam Smith do the rest. I’m sure private equity can identify the appropriate market price for real estate in need of a little rehab.
At the city level…
The decision to put Russell on paid administrative leave comes as an internal investigation is launched into the actions of her office on the day of the tornado. The sirens, which are crucial for alerting residents to severe weather, did not sound as a tornado caused major damage in parts of St. Louis.
DB2
I don’t know what the issue is. The commissioner was probably just trying to save electricity now that we’re in the era of rooting out waste and fraud. Also, sounding the sirens would have distracted from Dear Leader’s tweets, which could come at any hour of the day or night, and for which we must always be on alert.
What’s a little tornado now and then while the whole world is crashing around you?
And, God loves DOGE!
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/us/politics/trump-fema-tornado-arkansas.html
“He wants us to be self-sufficient and do our best to do it ourselves,” she said. But for those who do not have insurance, savings or family support, Ms. Carr said a few weeks before the FEMA aid came through, “my feelings are hurt for those people.”
It’s May, we’re barely entering severe weather season. Gonna be lots of opportunities for people and communities to be self-sufficient. Praise the Lord!
A conservative theme song.
Friedman said, government spending takes resources away from the “JCs”. Government spending must be cut, so the “JCs” will have more.
Steve