What, pray tell, do they think "the government" should be doing?
The line of reasoning is that people think of the government as an insurance company or a bank. The government auto-deducts tax money and people think it is sitting there for emergencies like this.
News flash: That money is GONE. To be more accurate, like a shopping junkie is living on new credit-cards granted by gullible lenders.
The government does not restore power. Linemen hired by utilities do. There are a finite number of them and there is a boat-load of issues to sort out.
Food? Water? Meds? Fuel? You are better off calling a friend outside of the most severely damaged areas and asking them to make a 400 mile round-trip mercy run.
Another headline
Southwest/Southeast: What is the difference?
Mainstream Media is riddled with factual and grammatical errors. The lack of care is painful to read.
Yes, I know that I also make errors but I do not get a paycheck and I try to acknowledge when I am presenting speculative material. Heck, it is a blog. You EXPECT opinions.
Feed a stray cat and it stays awaiting the next meal.
ReplyDeleteIt expects, NO IT DEMANDS its next meal.
And politicians get their votes by making it a "Right" that the cat gets fed.
Breads and circuses my friends. Keeping the Demos of democracy voting for more "free stuff ".
Who said "When the people learn they can vote money from the public purse our. Republic is doomed "
Wh are there folks
Protect your trusted friends and trusted family.
Far better than gold.
Michael
The sad part is the media and people working in the field have been convinced (by the college professors) that their job is no longer to present facts agnostically and allow the viewer to make their own decision. They are quite comfortable admitting that it is their right, nay, their task, their God given role (if they believed in God), to influence the direction of the world for the greater good, by massaging the message until it relays the correct (for them) meaning.
ReplyDeleteNo, literally, I remember it being pushed around lo maybe 20 years ago? I believe it was the climate hysteria at the time... but impressionable minds with Journalism degree tracts were instructed to no longer be impartial. They were told it is their duty, to future generations, to combat this (insert problem topic to distract the people with here)... and through their efforts a brighter future will shine on every generation.
Literally brainwashed by communists in college, out in the open for everyone to see. They still do it today, ask any of them. They are not to be impartial.
That's one of the issues that is broken, and our nation will not be fixed until it is. You can't try to cheat as hard as the other guy and hope it balances everything out. Not how life works.
I am at total loss as to which is worse, government or media, and which should be completely defunded first.
ReplyDeleteSince they seems to be joined at the hip, with the only question "which way are they facing," I'll vote for defunding them both. Immediately.
Media is "private" so they can be defunded by just not buying the papers or watching their shows, we can solve the government problem by refusing to fund them with taxes.
Neither has any redeeming value, social or otherwise.
I suspect too many of us want to be told what to think and what to do. Having to be responsible for all aspects of your life can be scary stuff. If we just go along and it doesn't work out, its not our fault right?
DeleteThis is exactly the message that government has been preaching for years (and the media taking up the chorus): that the government is the sum provider of all that is good and necessary (and by extension, must therefore be supported with increasing amounts of money). The actual work often happens somewhere else, but that is irrelevant (in their eyes) to the main argument.
ReplyDeleteThe irony to me is "these sorts of people" - the linemen, the plumbers, the "fixers" - are the things that actually make the basics happen that makes other things happen. Them, the government and media does little but heap scorn upon.
https://www.infowars.com/posts/biden-no-more-federal-aid-for-hurricane-victims/
ReplyDeleteWhere is FEMA?
ReplyDeleteFEMA doesn't always help. As proven by the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency telling people who want to help, don't. Stay away and just send "them" the money.
DeleteMy buddy Lucky had tornadoes go through a town about 60 miles from where he and his wife live. They went to render assistance.
DeleteIf I remember what he told me, half of the people used the disaster as an excuse to dump the contents of their closets on the people of the town. They didn't need winter coats or boots or musty bridal dresses. They needed generators and bottled water and bottles of bleach and 20 lb pigs of LP. All of those things were available in the big-box stores 25 miles away
A hurricane is a little different because it cuts such a wide swath.
His advise was to find some trustworthy boots-on-the-ground and to send them money. And it is fine to send it in a month. There is no benefit to replacing a freezer, for instance, if a family is still living in a motel.
One of the cardinal rules for AUXCOMM is "Do not deploy unless you have a task/mission number assigned by State Emergency Management." If they don't have an assigned task for you, a place to put you to work, you are just adding to the chaos. They might need you for the second deployment for the recovery effort, but you have just burned your time and supplies doing nothing. (Actually, they tell you to go home and strike your name off the list of deployable people.)
DeleteI see we need to call on Congress to declare War on Weather. As for the media pushing public opinion, that's been going on since colonial times.
ReplyDeleteI was led to this blog :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cx6-QjNemE&t=578s - "Pinball Preparedness" from another blog I read. He pointed out that all the states that need help are Red states. Now I have not verified this, so I can't prove it, but if true, that is a lot of voters not voting. For either side.
ReplyDeleteIt's no surprise that Biden says no aid. He's a puppet president.
The Army has not been mobilized to provide support. Son is at Ft. Gordon/Eisenhower, says Ft Stewart motorpools full, not being prepped to provide civil relief. Guard is helping w debris removal, but not providing water / fuel / food / medical etc. as has been the norm in the past. This is not a small event, massive widespread power outages are preventing local services from even beginning to be effective. A few key gas stations and grocery stores getting power from Army generators manned by troops would go a long way to helping the local EMS/Fire/LE/civil agencies to be able to do their jobs. Hand out food/water/ice at these "FOBs" and it helps restore order. This was done in Mobile after Frederick in 1979. FEMA is a joke.
ReplyDeleteFrom the FEMA training I've had (IS-700.b, IS-800, ICS-100, ICS-200), if you don't request something, you don't get it. FEMA might suggest it, but they don't, and shouldn't, come take over the relief effort. They don't have the local knowledge. What they are supposed to do is coordinate/facilitate getting you the resources you request.
DeleteWhether Fed.gov is working in good faith is another question...
+1 Jim_R
DeleteUnder incident response it is under local control, then state, then Uncle Sam. Uncle will get you what you ask for but it usually takes 3 days before you see them on site in any real presence. Smart governors declare a state of emergency before the storm hits so the assets are already moving. If you recall the Katrina response was much smoother in Mississippi than in Louisiana because the governor in Baton Rouge was an idiot and waited to notify the feds.
What the gov (military) could do, that few else could, is deploy some bridging equipment to enable transit of needed supplies.
ReplyDeleteSome stuff can wait, and other stuff cannot. Gas for generators supplying patients, water,etc.
Not to be personal, Jim, but I've had all the incident command training as well. 2 takeaways, as an individual, city, county or state entity, you better be ready to deal with the initial response. FEMA writes checks afterwards. Some of those checks will help with the secondary response but most are for long-term recovery. Secondly. It is true FEMA response must be requested but they should anticipate and preposition in the face of such a disaster. They are infamously bad at that.
ReplyDeleteNo argument with any of that.
DeleteThe real complaint is priorities.
ReplyDeleteWe've wasted over 200 billion on Ukraine, buying us nothing but a heightened risk of nuclear war. But can't come up with more funds to help Americans who've run into a natural disaster?
We've historically attempted to help Americans in these situations. If we are going to continue to spend money we don't have, that's where it should go.