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Discussion in 'The Water Cooler' started by Artem256, Jun 1, 2019.

  1. Germ

    Germ Legendary Woodsman

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    Translation don't take my states money, Mr. President take it all, 100% my support cut all the funding.
     
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    Fema. Can't give our NC citizens money to rebuild bc they are mostly conservative voters, but can provide $100 hotel rooms to illegals. F YOU.
     
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    Another government organization, like Dept of Ed, that is in need of serious downsizing, if not total elimination.
     
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    It just amazes me how mis-information is spread these days.

    HICKORY, N.C. – In 39 counties, including the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, more than 153,000 households are being helped by FEMA assistance as they recover from Tropical Storm Helene.

    Four months after the catastrophic storm, individuals and families have received rental assistance, money for basic repairs to their homes, sheltering in hotels, temporary housing in FEMA-provided mobile homes and travel trailers, funds for replacement of essential personal property, money for serious needs, and other assistance.

    Here are some ways that FEMA is working with the state of North Carolina and local communities to provide support:

    • 2,596 households are currently staying in FEMA-paid hotels; 10,648 have checked out.
    • 3,284 households have received rental assistance.
    • 150 households are currently living in FEMA-provided temporary housing units.
    • 18,000 households have received money to make basic repairs to a damaged primary home.
    • 5,000 households have received funds to repair private roads and bridges.
    • 106,000 FEMA inspections have been issued to assess damage to primary residences.
    • 138,000 homes have been visited by FEMA Disaster Survivor Assistance crews.
    • 66,000 people have visited a Disaster Recovery Center.
    • 1,800 households have been provided three years of flood insurance, paid for by FEMA.
    FEMA is only one part of federal disaster recovery support for North Carolina. The National Flood Insurance Program has paid $123 million in claims resulting from Helene. The U.S. Small Business Administration has made $108.6 million in low-interest disaster loans to North Carolinians. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is working with the state and communities on debris removal. To date, 4 million cubic yards of debris has been removed from public rights of way, 2.8 million by state contractors and 1.2 million by federal contractors, and waterway debris removal is in full execution by the Corps of Engineers.
     
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    Also here is where the money went, it's to the point now it's just comical what people will believe. Is there an issue, yes, do I agree with Trumps approach, YES. Do I laugh when Musk post something and it's taken as the truth, YES. They count on folks not being informed.

     
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    Come visit, ********
     
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    They failed. I have friends that live there and boots on the ground observations. FAIL
     
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    100 bucks a night plus food towards illegals is 100 bucks out of my countrymens pockets. Fail
     
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    Utter fail.

    Look at those numbers the smart guy found. Then come here, look and ask around. I guarantee you'll walk away shaking with anger
     
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    Don't you love it when a troll tries pushing a fake narrative that you can look out the window and see isn't true

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    It is a complicated problem. Not really. Government spent money on all the others, bc "we are so compassionate".

    Meanwhile, screw the folks who actually live here.
     
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    Here is a long take on the court injunction crisis, which is less crisis than an opportunity…

    OK, stop panicking about all the stupid legal decisions from leftist judges that the left is getting from judge shopping in leftist jurisdictions.

    Stop. Panicking.

    First, no one should be surprised by any of this. The administration certainly isn’t. We always knew exactly what they would do. Do not take the fact they are not screaming and yelling as them rolling over. They are not rolling over. There’s plenty going on behind the scenes as administration lawyers prepare their papers for the legal fight to come.

    Second, since we have to have this fight, this is the time and the battleground to have it. Why? We want it settled right at the beginning of the administration so that we don’t have to deal with this down the road. And we want to fight on these orders because 1) they are manifestly the result of bad faith judge shopping and the opinions themselves are both procedural and 2) they are substantively ridiculous. They are legal jokes.

    Don’t listen to the dummy lawyers on Twitter - only listen to me or the people I tell you that you can rely on. Everyone telling you these are reasoned, valid legal decisions is either a legal illiterate or thinks you are stupid.

    Third, the way this fight is happening is to our advantage. Wait, you ask, we’re getting decision after decision against us! How can that be good? Because they are leaving the Supreme Court no choice. People want Trump to sound off about this, but he doesn’t need to. What’s left unstated is the fact that he can just not obey these manifestly improper orders. They say it’s a constitutional crisis now, but that becomes a real one when they push Trump too far. He’s not going to submit forever to micromanagement of the executive branch by activist District Court judges in blue cities across America. And Chief Justice Roberts knows it.

    CJ Roberts and majority of the court know these are ridiculous legally, and the last thing they want to do is stake the credibility of the Court – which famously has no divisions – on this kind of nonsense. They are not going to jump on the grenade that is these decisions. There might someday be a fight with a president about something where he is legally in the wrong, but this is not that time. This is not the hill the Supreme Court will die on. Wisely, Trump’s not adding fuel to the fire by threatening to do what it’s very clear he can do, which is disobey. This provides SCOTUS the cover it needs to deal with these upstart district courts without looking like Trump strong-armed it.

    So relax and let the process go forward. We’re going to win on all these injunctions, and I expect fairly quickly.

    https://jdrucker.substack.com/p/the-activist-judges-blocking-president
     
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    Sure, streets and towns were wiped out, those numbers are not nearly enough. The point is the lie about the 56 million. I am sure anyone in NC affected does not feel they have been helped enough. Fact of the matter is those numbers have been spent, fact matter is a lot more is going to need to be spent.

    The point remains it was a lie about luxury hotel rooms.
     
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    Housing illegals in NYC hotels was a lie?
     
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    The 56 million musk tweeted about is a lie. I'll say it again Trump is 100% right with his immigration policy.

    The federal government has spent billions in NC and it's going to take billions more in the coming years.
     
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    another dem/activist caught in a huge lie (intentional or not :confused: ).... dont even know if the younger ones know who she is/was .. she definitely looks the part ...

    Star Canadian singer stripped of prestigious honor after ongoing Indigenous ancestry dispute
    Canadian Broadcasting Corporation News reported Buffy Sainte-Marie was born to White parents
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/star-...nor-after-ongoing-indigenous-ancestry-dispute
     
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    She can finally take those damn feathers out of her hair.
     
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    Fauxcohantas


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