eflatminor
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So, does the same go for drought stricken states? Since the states did not have enough in their "rainy day" funds (no pun intended) to cover the losses, should the Federal government be off the hook? Boehner doesn't seem to think so?
Hell yes it does. If farmers (more likely farming corporations) failed to buy crop insurance, that is NOT the fault of citizens in other states.
A lack of proper planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine.
Besides, we've dealt with drought stricken states in the past, where 'we the people' proved far more effective in helping than the central planners.
Fair enough. In the case of the floods in TN last year, should FEMA has stepped in? How about New Orleans? In each case, those locales should have planned better, right?
Again, if you're a property owner, buy flood insurance. Besides, wasn't FEMA's lack of response in New Orleans one of the reasons the Left so hated Bush? How'd that reliance on central planners work out there?