10-04-2017, 05:07 AM
some light on this subject...
Frank,
I'm not sure what your point is. Are you saying that FEMA should not provide food and water for the 3+ million people in Puerto Rico who had no personal involvement whatsoever in creating the territory's debt? If you, living in Hawaii, regularly paid all of your bills but the state or county of Hawaii was in a debt crisis, should you be ineligible for emergency assistance because of guilt by association?
What about the people in charge of appropriating funds? Should we also hold them to a higher standard, have them prove their ability to manage their own money without resorting to bankruptcy after bankruptcy, and manipulating the tax code for decades so they could stay afloat only by not paying taxes? That doesn't sound like someone who can be counted on to make the right decision under normal circumstances, much less in times of crisis.
The Donner Party really wasn't that great of a party, was it?
Frank,
I'm not sure what your point is. Are you saying that FEMA should not provide food and water for the 3+ million people in Puerto Rico who had no personal involvement whatsoever in creating the territory's debt? If you, living in Hawaii, regularly paid all of your bills but the state or county of Hawaii was in a debt crisis, should you be ineligible for emergency assistance because of guilt by association?
What about the people in charge of appropriating funds? Should we also hold them to a higher standard, have them prove their ability to manage their own money without resorting to bankruptcy after bankruptcy, and manipulating the tax code for decades so they could stay afloat only by not paying taxes? That doesn't sound like someone who can be counted on to make the right decision under normal circumstances, much less in times of crisis.
The Donner Party really wasn't that great of a party, was it?
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