Hurricane Helene FEMA and the weak Federal response

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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.

Oh, you believe the country is already past the point of no return, Im only 60 I haven't become that cynical and sarcastic yet, but it's bubbling inside me sometimes like a good case of heartburn or indigestion.

NGL lie I wondered where he got his perfect hair... but does that mean you think they are less credible? Otherwise how is it germane to thread? Inquiring minds want to know