Eric Cantor politicizes helping Joplin Mo residents

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What an unmitigated dick----

http://thinkprogress.org/2011/05/24/...saster-relief/

This is the United States of America. We take care of our citizens, our own, when they are in need.

No we don't. We take care of the military complex - public and private.

Cantor voted to extend the Patriot Act. Just another chicken hawk closet homosexual fake republican/globalist.

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fema recently visited an old lady here in arkansas that they had given assistance to after the flooding a few months back. seems the money was given in error, and now she's been told she has to pay it back. about 30k. gotta love those feds.

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Originally Posted by Danzig

fema recently visited an old lady here in arkansas that they had given assistance to after the flooding a few months back. seems the money was given in error, and now she's been told she has to pay it back. about 30k. gotta love those feds.

I heard about that. Post-Katrina, some folks got FEMA money that in retrospect were not eligible. FEMA has asked for it back, as that's the law (apparently there is some law specifically about when FEMA gives money to the wrong people) but they are trying to get special Congressional dispensation so the people don't have to give it back (it would be a Congressional approval kind of thing)

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Originally Posted by Riot

I heard about that. Post-Katrina, some folks got FEMA money that in retrospect were not eligible. FEMA has asked for it back, as that's the law (apparently there is some law specifically about when FEMA gives money to the wrong people) but they are trying to get special Congressional dispensation so the people don't have to give it back (it would be a Congressional approval kind of thing)

thing is, in this case, they went to her house, inspected everything, signed off and now...months later, ooops. her house had tens of thousands in damage, money that's been spent. if they said it was eligible, how can they then go back on their findings and say it wasn't? a little late now, isn't it?

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Originally Posted by Danzig

thing is, in this case, they went to her house, inspected everything, signed off and now...months later, ooops. her house had tens of thousands in damage, money that's been spent. if they said it was eligible, how can they then go back on their findings and say it wasn't? a little late now, isn't it?

Oh, yeah. Obviously clearly a screw up on FEMA's part, they approved the disbursment. That's why there are some Congressmen trying to get it fixed. Was that on 60 Minutes maybe? There is apparently a law - the rules governing FEMA disbursements - that if there is a screwup and FEMA wrongly disperses money, they have to ask for it back. That makes sense, right?

Doesn't make sense when the people money was dispersed to used it to repair their houses (the intent of it all)