Local officials: FEMA decision a 'travesty'

[kickysnana]

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2012/07/25/regional/duluth-flood-fema-denies-individual-assistance/

The state of Minnesota says it's going to fight the Federal Emergency Management Agency decision to deny individual homeowner assistance to the victims of this summer's flooding in six counties in northeastern Minnesota. ...

"I believe this was the wrong decision, and I am deeply disappointed. We will begin working on an appeal immediately," Gov. Mark Dayton said in a statement released Wednesday afternoon. ...

"Many of the residents that were directly effected have no flood insurance," Ness said. "They're low income. They don't have the means to go out and get a private loan. And so for many, the individual assistance program of the federal government, of FEMA, was their hope to rebuild their lives. ... Now, at least with this initial decision, that hope is lost." ...

The federal government also turned down two other requests for individual homeowner assistance for Minnesota disasters, following flooding around Zumbro Falls in 2010 and following the north Minneapolis tornado last year. ...

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This is not your father's FEMA and it is pretty sad when the Feds cannot help individuals in disasters because that is we the people. They assume that people can start over but in this economy that is so not true. This will leave more than a few people homeless and most devastated. This is another way our country has gone insane and fallen.

[Brickbat]

1. I am so angry about this.

[azureblue]

2. ask New Orleans

about post flood FEMA. As the TV series "Treme" has in a shot during the opening credits --
F ix
E verything
M y
A ss

[Jenoch]

3. Why is it

the job of FEMA or the federal government to fix everything in either New Orleans or Duluth?

[dflprincess]

4. It makes far more sense for the Federal Goverment to rebuild New Orleans or Duluth

than it does to spend billions more bombing other countries.

With or without natural disasters there's not a city in the U.S. that couldn't use major infrastructure work - and that's where we shuould be spending out money. (And rebuilding the U.S would create jobs.)

[Brickbat]

5. Because the purpose of FEMA is to help out when local or state resources are overwhelmed in an

emergency.

[Angry Dragon]

6. It is not their job to fix everything

it is their job to HELP the people of this country fix things

[Jenoch]

7. My post was in response

to Azureblue who indicated FEMA stood for:

Fix
Everything
My
Ass

So my question is why is it the federal governments job to fix EVERYTHING in the case of a local natural disaster?