RE: Hey Virginia... Go Fuck Yourself
August 29, 2011 at 8:09 am
(This post was last modified: August 29, 2011 at 8:44 am by orogenicman.)
It appears that much of the damage was utility damage, so one would think that either it is covered by insurance, or else they will pass the cost on to their customers like they always do.
Having said that, there appears to be a lot of flooding damage as well, but it will likely take time to assess that damage.
I seem to recall the Republicans making similar statements after Katrina. One would think that after the public backlash from that fiasco, they would have learned not to say such things or even suggest that the Feds can't or shouldn't help. So we have Canter saying lets cut the budget in response to a disaster, we have Paul saying that we don't need FEMA, and Bachman saying lets get rid of the EPA and drill in the Everglades. Yeah, that'll help their chances come 12012. Or not.
Having said that, there appears to be a lot of flooding damage as well, but it will likely take time to assess that damage.
I seem to recall the Republicans making similar statements after Katrina. One would think that after the public backlash from that fiasco, they would have learned not to say such things or even suggest that the Feds can't or shouldn't help. So we have Canter saying lets cut the budget in response to a disaster, we have Paul saying that we don't need FEMA, and Bachman saying lets get rid of the EPA and drill in the Everglades. Yeah, that'll help their chances come 12012. Or not.
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-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
