Bla bla blaits an unreliable source and the numbers are not correct. That is a 2 year expenditure. FEMA spends about 2 percent of its budget this year on non citizen services which are broad in scope. It's a complicated problem but without migrant workers, farming , construction, the service industries , restaurant industry don't function. My cousin owns part of a large feedlot in central Nebraska and he said they tried to not hire migrants but gave up as couldn't find workers. I know a Florida tomato farmer who is full on maga but he says that there are no white people who are any use to him . There isn't an easy fix to immigration as a lot of competing interests. There is an enormous misinformation campaign on what we do for illegals and sadly a lot of fertile minds that believe it all.
So as a country, fema has spent about 1.50 for every citizen in 2 years.
I can find quite a few Bible verses about how you treat aliens.
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Consumption of information requires some intelligence. That isn't something most have. Govt is inefficient , a lot is due to crony capitalism which sucks far more of the public dollar then pbs, immigrants or children's school meals. When you have emergency agencies, military, hospitals etc… you either fund for the worst or you are lean but will get burned sometimes. Usually we are in the middle somewhere . I know Tucker, and Alex and the entertainment side of Fox won't tell you the truth (and the left has there equivalents, just less mainstream). I suggest you research a story from multiple sources and look at the fact checking sites like snopes, politifact etc… and if you find a site lies to you, you move on and find ones that are factual. There are sources with left , right or center ist views , some on the ends are low quality and other are high. The news went to hell when 24 hour news and news as a profit center came to the scene. You have to lead with titillating titles and make filler , Cronkite has been replaced by hannity and Maddou. Most have a lean, Fox will lead with stories of migrant crime or a cold day in July which may be true but has the purpose of painting an incomplete picture. MSNBC will lead with a story about a purported Trump crime. I would say that only a few news sources have been successfully sued for misinformation and that is pretty obvious why. The country needs a population that has a basic grasp on reality and you have to have a core set of facts that you can't discount without evidence.
For 200,00 years man made little progress and then the scientific method came about. The progress is breathtaking. climate change is real and made this event more likely although can never tell on a single event, trump lost in 2020, vaccines work , and my 1000.00 to the Red Cross did more than all the prayers told to the 1000s of gods since the dawn of humanity. Anyone is welcome to their beliefs but thoughts and prayers don't replace action.
It's a horrific situation. My former business partner retired to Asheville and has relayed just how bad it is.
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From my experience if you are going to wait on the state or feds to help you you're going to be sol. The minute the water receded we were gutting our house. We were fortunate to have flood ins. Most in NC do not. So at best the people here in 2016 who did not have flood ins could get 36k max from fema and then they would give you an sba loan with a bunch of strings attached. Either way those folks are going to be in a bind.
What is solution? You can have private insurance or a large socialist system. Ultimately rates are based on actuarial likelihood of a loss. There are places where people live that aren't good bets. Flood insurance should be cheap in a place that it is unlikely to flood. I have it on my house but if I ever flood, we've had a 1/10,000 year event so it wasn't expensive.
We are the federal govt . Any govt insurance plan will require taxes and a federal beauracracy. Private insurance may be unaffordable or unattainable for some.
It's very complex problem and any one with an easy solution is stupid or lying.
I have never had any need for disaster relief so no personal experience. My farmer cousins have collected many millions on federally subsidized crop protection programs and that has worked out very well for them. It's not the same as replacing a house in 3 feet of floodwater but there is no great quick fix for that.
You missed the point. That point is people down here did not just sit on their hands and wait on the feds. When we flooded the minute the water went down we were cleaning and gutting our homes. Any help you get from fema will be well after the fact. If you have insurance their is a process for that. But if you do not have flood insurance like many of the people in NC then you are going to be on your own anyway. They will offer you a small direct payment and maybe an sba loan with a lot of strings attached. The feds and our state had a road home program set up after the fact but it took months to jump through all the hoops only to be told your 150k plus loss was only 60k and they would give you only a small portion of that.
