Obama finally issues major disaster declaration for fire affected Texas

[Facetious]

Dateline: April '11

AP

Governor says Obama leaving Texas in the dust

Gov. Perry criticizes White House for not responding to request for disaster.



SAN ANTONIO — Texas Governor Rick Perry criticized the Obama administration on Thursday for not responding to a request for a disaster aid for the parched state, where wildfires have scorched nearly 2 million acres.
"You have to ask, 'Why are you taking care of Alabama and other states?' I know our letter didn't get lost in the mail," Perry, a Republican and frequent critic of the federal government, said after addressing a Texas emergency management conference.
President Barack Obama declared a state of emergency for Alabama, where storms — including a tornado that ravaged Tuscaloosa on Wednesday — killed nearly 200 people this week.

"There is a point in time where you say, 'Hey, what's going on here?'" Perry said.
Declaration of emergency
Perry had requested a federal declaration of emergency for Texas as the wildfires began to rage across the large state. The request has not been answered, although several federal agencies are supplying firefighters.
"They watch TV, they know what's going on here, they can recognize that there is going to be a request for assistance, a request for help," Perry said.


Two volunteer firefighters have died battling the Texas wildfires, which have destroyed more than 900 buildings.

Source

F i n a l l y !

Dateline: September 9, 2011

President Obama issued a major disaster declaration for Texas late Friday.
The declaration allows federal funding to be available to affected individuals in Bastrop County.Federal Emergency Management Agency officials will provide federal aid to help with state and local recovery efforts already in place.
Federal assistance can include grants for temporary housing and home repairs, low-cost loans to cover uninsured or underinsured property losses, and other programs to help individuals and business owners recover from the effects of the disaster.

More than 1,300 homes and 20 businesses have been destroyed in Bastrop County alone

Politics, plain and simple.

 

[Will E Worm]

He's slow and in way over his head.

Bill Maher now has to bring up how long Obongo waited to declare Texas a disaster area. Which was much longer than Bush sitting in a chair. :tongue:

 

[Facetious]

If that wasn't bad enough, last month, the feds terminated their contract with Aero Union Corporation... read on...

A fleet of P-3 Orions, vital to the nations ability to control forest fires, were put out of service by the Obama administration following a contract dispute just five weeks ago.
According to Human Events, this leaves the federal government with only 11 tankers to battle the more than 50 large uncontrolled forest fires burning nationwide -- including the Texas fires that killed a mother and her child.
This is 40 tankers less than was available to the Forest Service just 10 years ago.
Aero Union, the largest supplier of heavy-duty air tanker support to the government had their contract cancelled after disagreements over their maintenance plan.
Aero CEO Britt Gourley said he and his crews were prepared to fly and instead he was forced to put 60 people out of work with virtually no explanation.

So much for jobs, the company is out of business!

Full article

...and just because many of us are resistant to big government doesn't mean that we're resistant to all government!

 

[YMIHERE]

Governor Rick Perry cut Texas volunteer fired department funding by 75%.
We must cut the size of government so let it burn baby. Just being fair and balanced.

http://www.mediaite.com/online/repo...exas-volunteer-fire-department-funding-by-75/

 

[StanScratch]

At least the brave Governor of Texas didn't do anything foolish, like cut the fire budget that would have forced firemen to buy things like hoses and oxygen.

Oh. Wait...


But, I am sure that is Obama's fault. Because in the mind of a conservative, it is the state's right to slash and burn the budgets, but it is the President's fault for not stopping them from their own foolishness.

 

[Trident1]

Oboba fails again? This dude's on a roll.

 

[YMIHERE]

Word is that Rick Perry will wait for the feds to put out the wild fires before Texas secedes from the union.

 

[Red Spyder]

Word is that Rick Perry will wait for the feds to put out the wild fires before Texas secedes from the union.

Actually, Texas doesn't have to secede, it's D.C. that's lost touch with the rest of America and seems to be heading some place we just don't want to follow.

From waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay over there in the left those of us who are just right of center look really extreme right.

 

[Hot Mega]

Which is it Gov. "Parry"??:hairpull::hairpull:

You want benefits of membership or not? To secede or not to secede..that is the bluster....

Newflash Mr. 'Parry'!!!....you were already declared a disaster but just didn't have the gubernatorial responsibilities to have a need to know.:dunno:

 

[Hypergalaxy]

Oh now texas wants the governments help.. how convenient.

Also why dont you (facetious), the worm and trident make a competition thread where you see who can come up with the most immature and stupid Obama pet name. Whoever wins will be declared the most childish mentally challenged member on freeones. Your prize will be a helmet or a tin foil hat... your choice.

 

[Will E Worm]

Oh now texas wants the governments help.. how convenient.

Also why dont you (facetious), the worm and trident make a competition thread where you see who can come up with the most immature and stupid Obama pet name. Whoever wins will be declared the most childish mentally challenged member on freeones. Your prize will be a helmet or a tin foil hat... your choice.

You could make a complaining thread. :tongue:

I didn't make up the word "Obongo."

With all the names people called Bush and still do, don't start whining because people call Obama names.

Not that I am defending Bush.
I'm not defending any of them.

 

[Supafly]

If a Governor pretty much puts Fire Fighters out of biz, he should go and do the fire fighting himself or shut the fuck up :2 cents:

 

[PlasmaTwa2]

Wait, Texas wants government aid? Takin' tax payer dollars to help some rancher rebuild his trailer and buy another pickup truck?

I dun think that here be Socialism, but I knows it ain't right.

(PS: I am not being serious.)

 

[D-rock]

Whoa whoa, wait a minute. Where are all those good ol' Texas conservatives crying about the socialist boogyman with their nonsensical fear of it and criticizing Perry for trying to "steal" tax dollars from other American people that have nothing to do with his state by helping them?

Wait, I know, those things are only wrong in those types of people's minds when it doesn't help them. :rofl2:



Ahh...like Joh Stewart said (At least I think he said it.) "They're really only entitlements when it's something other people want, When it's something you want it's the foundation of a great society."

 

[Hypergalaxy]

You could make a complaining thread. :tongue:

I didn't make up the word "Obongo."

With all the names people called Bush and still do, don't start whining because people call Obama names.

Not that I am defending Bush.
I'm not defending any of them.

Bush got called names because his speech literately came off like he was a retarded chimpanzee but I still didnt make little pet names for him. Why? Because I am not 7. You wanna call Obama names go ahead but at least challenge yourself and come up with a name and not some easy pet name because his name starts with an O.

 

[Trident1]

the most childish mentally challenged member on freeones.

That would be you.

 

[lurkingdirk]

That would be you.

Awesome response. Brilliantly phrased. Not at all childish.

I'm lying. It's a fucking stupid response.

 

[Will E Worm]

Bush got called names because his speech literately came off like he was a retarded chimpanzee but I still didnt make little pet names for him. Why? Because I am not 7. You wanna call Obama names go ahead but at least challenge yourself and come up with a name and not some easy pet name because his name starts with an O.

And... Obama can't be trusted to speak without a teleprompter. :tongue:

All Presidents are made fun of. Just get used to it.

 

[Hot Mega]

And... Obama can't be trusted to speak without a teleprompter. :tongue:

Talking point fail.:2 cents:

 

[Will E Worm]

Talking point fail.:2 cents:

Talking points are a good thing and mine was not a fail. :tongue: