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First, during a 2011 Republican primary debate, Mitt Romney said he was in favor of cutting federal disaster aid, Instead, disaster relief should be privatized, he suggested. That means, of course, that people who can afford to pay to have themselves saved will be able to do so, while the rest of us should’ve done a better job pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps, perhaps stacking dozens of copies of Atlas Shrugged on top of one another to remove ourselves from the cesspools of whirling trash ocean reaching tit-level in our apartments?
Then, on Monday, his campaign “clarified” his position
“Gov. Romney believes that states should be in charge of emergency management in responding to storms and other natural disasters in their jurisdictions,” Romney spokesman Ryan Williams said in a statement. “As the first responders, states are in the best position to aid affected individuals and communities, and to direct resources and assistance to where they are needed most. This includes help from the federal government and FEMA.”
Yesterday he changed his opinion yet again. Now, apparently FEMA doesn’t exist. Watch Romney throw the gas face at reporters asking him over and over what he would do would FEMA if he were president.
During that primary debate, this is what Romney said about our responsibilities to help our fellow citizens during a time of disaster:
We cannot — we cannot afford to do those things without jeopardizing the future for our kids. It is simply immoral, in my view, for us to continue to rack up larger and larger debts and pass them on to our kids, knowing full well that we’ll all be dead and gone before it’s paid off. It makes no sense at all.With no funding to disaster relief agencies like FEMA, a lot of us will be dead and gone long ahead of schedule.
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