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Originally posted by widgeon13
There you go, now we will need a sunami warning system for Florida and New Orleans, suppose GDub will be blamed for this as well, more tax $$ wasted and more conspiracy theory material.
Probably been a long time since the earth has moved for a lot of those old folks in FL.
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The main reason people blame the fed for screw-ups in disaster relief is that the fed takes so much money from each individual in the state, and from each business, then creates a huge bureaucracy in FEMA which promises to rush assistance to where it's needed; leaving few local and state resources by comparison.
Imagine how much better it could have been if each county in the Gulf states had kept their tax money locally and simply paid for things themselves.
And, if they failed, that failure would have been local as well, and everyone would know that. There would be no far off centralizing state to blame.