Michael Brown, Former FEMA Director, Agrees With Eric Cantor: No Disaster Aid Without Budget Cuts

[deminks]

Now there is a heckofan endorsement.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/30/fema-michael-brown-eric-cantor-disaster-aid_n_941789.html

WASHINGTON -- Former Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) director Michael Brown wants federal emergency disaster aid to be offset by spending cuts elsewhere, backing up a position first put forward by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.).

"When there's a disaster, there's an appropriate federal role and we will find the monies," Cantor said after an earthquake hit Mineral, Va., which lies within the congressman's district. "But we've had discussions about these things before and those monies will be offset with appropriate savings or cost-cutting elsewhere in order to meet the priority of the federal government's role in a situation like this."

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FEMA became a national joke under Brown, who oversaw the agency during Hurricane Katrina. Brown -- who embellished his resume to get the high-profile job -- and other Bush administration officials were harshly criticized for failing to respond to the devastating storm.

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Cantor's proposal to offset disaster aid has been criticized by both Republicans and Democrats. Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-La.) called it "sinful to require us to cut somewhere ... in order to provide emergency disaster assistance for American citizens." Rep. Leonard Lance (R-N.J.) said the federal government should "spend whatever is necessary" after Hurricane Irene.

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[DesertFlower]

1. i'm speechless. nt

[meegbear]

2. Well, if Michael Brown agrees, then I guess that settles it then

[gratuitous]

3. LOST: Last shreds of humanity for Michael Brown and Eric Cantor

Reward: $0.17 and an old Frito (I think) corn chip found in the couch cushions.

I realize that the reward is not very much, but then the humanity of these two alleged human beings was never worth very much.

[atreides1]

9. You're assuming

That either of them had a shred of humanity in the first place! These statements are an indicator that neither of these men possess any thing that even comes close to humanity.

[louis-t]

4. Because he was SO good as a FEMA director

now he's an economist, too. Asshole.

[eShirl]

5. wait, isn't this "Heckuva-Job Brownie" ??

[fascisthunter]

6. why are we hearing idiocy from idiots?

because these so-called idiots were selected to run the show at one time... THIS is what happens when business mean and women who only care about wealth are running shit through our government. Fucking idiots who know how to make money and do anything for it with no regard for their own countrymen and women.

[madrchsod]

7. the federal government is the insurer of the common good.

[KamaAina]

8. Heckuva jerk Brownie.

:eyes:

[MerryBlooms]

10. Idiots - America only aids fellow Americans when it's

profitable? What a clusterfuck our process has become.

[catbyte]

11. Who cares what these dickweeds have to say?

:shrug:

[MarianJack]

12. In the words of one dipshit to another,...

...heck of a job brownie!

PEACE!

[Proud Liberal Dem]

13. and why does the media feel like we should listen to Michael "Brownie" Brown

speak with any semblance of *authority* regarding natural disasters?
:wtf:

[6000eliot]

14. Fuck off, incompetent scumbag!

[Blue Owl]

15. What a fucking taintlick.

n/t

[JoePhilly]

16. Cut federal money that targets the same district as the damage.

Let's see the GOP run on THAT.

[jwirr]

17. Seems like a confession to me as to why he was absent in NO for

so long after the storm and why he left so many stranded. A real bastard.

[malletgirl02]

18. Brown's resume

Did anyone else notice the sentence in the article that Brown lied on his resume?