Obama Addresses Campaign Staff on Hurricane Sandy

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If you look back at history, this is one of the most fundamental roles of government. They would collect grain and other resources to save for bad years. Romney and his followers don't understand what 'provide for the general welfare' means; the folks hit by Hurricane Sandy are part of the 47% that would vote for Obama anyways...
 
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With the economy the way it is in the States right now and with many states teetering on the brink of financial collapse, downloading something this important may not exactly be the correct thing to do. JMO.

"Our states are in trouble and no amount of budget gimmicks, political posturing or hiding bills will fix the massive debt that they face," said Bob Williams, president of State Budget Solutions. "Drastic reforms, innovations and political courage are needed to put our states back on the road to fiscal survival."

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Ironically the States with the biggest population and most industry are the ones on the verge of financial collapse. So now the problem has been identified as having two causes...................Industry and People!
 
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Please... look at the news. The government is failing all over the NJ-NY area in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. Again the Administration has dropped the ball.
 
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Let's consider another Fox hypocrite...............




John Stossel: I got my FEMA money already, but the rest of you can **** off.



On The O’Reilly Factor on Nov. 1, John Stossel, former correspondent for ABC’s 20/20 and current host of the Fox Business Network show Stossel, said that “the government should stop insuring areas” prone to disaster.

“What if nobody wants to insure you?” O’Reilly asked.

“Then you take your own risk. Then the private insurance market is saying, you live in a risky place, don’t build there.”

Stossel himself once received $250,000 in FEMA money, but said during the program he would not do so again.


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According to Romney who stated awhile back he wouldn't fund any natural disasters!
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Was Hurricane Sandy seeking funds? That's news to me. What President would want to provide funds for more natural disasters? Historically natural disasters do pretty well on their own and require little government assistance at all.
 
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tay said:
Let's consider another Fox hypocrite...............




John Stossel: I got my FEMA money already, but the rest of you can **** off.



On The O’Reilly Factor on Nov. 1, John Stossel, former correspondent for ABC’s 20/20 and current host of the Fox Business Network show Stossel, said that “the government should stop insuring areas” prone to disaster.

“What if nobody wants to insure you?” O’Reilly asked.

“Then you take your own risk. Then the private insurance market is saying, you live in a risky place, don’t build there.”

Stossel himself once received $250,000 in FEMA money, but said during the program he would not do so again.


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Since he feels that way he should return the $250k
 
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Was Hurricane Sandy seeking funds? That's news to me. What President would want to provide funds for more natural disasters? Historically natural disasters do pretty well on their own and require little government assistance at all.
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Speak for yourself, Einstein. Or better yet trot that remark out in N.J. and Staten Island.
 
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JLM said:
According to Romney who stated awhile back he wouldn't fund any natural disasters!
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Except he didn't say that, he said he would have disaster management run at the State level. I agree with him that States could manage better, and Sandy is making a good case for him too. Chalk up another one for the romner.
 
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John Stossel: I got my FEMA money already, but the rest of you can **** off.
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Stossel has a long history of hypocrisy and stupidity. The once great consumer advocate who decided against consumerism after the Fox network liars offered him money to report in favor of Big Business.
 
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Except he didn't say that, he said he would have disaster management run at the State level. I agree with him that States could manage better, and Sandy is making a good case for him too. Chalk up another one for the romner.
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I heard him say it myself. Could have been an identical twin brother I suppose!
 
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Wow, so this twin brother said the same thing that Petros said in the other thread, that disaster victims should stop whining and fend for themselves? That is earth shattering news.
 
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How's Ryan and his followers doing with the recovery efforts? He was gathering the rightwing clan to be super heroes.

Just the Facts said:
Except he didn't say that, he said he would have disaster management run at the State level. I agree with him that States could manage better, and Sandy is making a good case for him too. Chalk up another one for the romner.
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So you would have 50 duplicate jobs, one for each state, and most doing nothing most of the time? Nothing like driving the cost up. How about using the old corporate mantra of downsizing, rightsizing and centralizing to save money?

You'll need a federal state bailout agency just to account for state bankruptcies if each state has to run a federally-sized agency.
 
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