Hurricane Helene FEMA and the weak Federal response

[UltraBudgie]

Yes sir so do I...

watch this 5-minute video of a couple that was on FOX yesterday and as the woman in the video says we were being polite and they did get $750 but have a couple thousand in receipts they had to pay just to keep a generator running for food. Afterward, she started getting calls from lots of friends and family who hadn't received anything and just were embarrassed to come forward. One businessman ready to clean up his business is getting the run around between the Small Business Association and FEMA 

That's a characteristic of many Western Carolinians, it is hard to get them to ask for help, if it weren't for locals and many other private citizens from far and wide helping it would be worse than it is on the ground.

https://x.com/matt_vanswol/status/1848756045625081928

Very heartening to hear the stories of neighbours helping neighbours, and local and regional charity organizations at work.  Somewhat wistful hearing their expectations that the government is there to help them, as individuals.  Perhaps in a better world it should be, but it saddens me thinking of all the people learning that world is not this one.

By saying "I expect more from our tax dollars", I simply meant slicker propaganda.  Really.  That's all I expect from them.  Now as far as what I would like, that's a different story -- one that seems irrelevant to the system we are given.

If there is an air of community caring on the ground, it seems that air thins, the further up the pyramid one looks.  At the highest levels of the power structure, we are well past the days of Imperial Rome, where they at least had the courtesy to occasionally rain down bread along with the circuses.  Now it seems that all that rains down is indifference, manipulation, and, if you're unlucky enough to live outside the empire's benevolence, destruction.


Edit to add: Was anyone else fascinated, watching that video, to see if the tree branch poking that guy's head was going to muss his hair?  Fortunately, it did not.