Ron Paul: Who Needs FEMA Anyway?

Those of us who lived through Ike down here in Houston knows that FEMA was worse than useless; it was counterproductive. New Orleans residents have plenty of FEMA horror stories after Katrina hit.

Jason Volack reports this as if we should care about FEMA, look at how well they did with Katrina. Like most all government programs it’s a huge waste of cash. When were broke and have no money, Ron continues to make all the since in the world.

Fema… “Your doing a Heck of Job, Bownie” I love this artical, You come out and post this just before a big storm… Nice! Scare the timid Sheeple, that Ron Paul does not want them to get help in the time of a trouble.. Another Hit job on the good Doctor… Sure if you spin his comments just alittle bit, you can create fear in the average mind!
Lets look at this for a moment, Case in point Katrina! After the Bonda Achi title wave, the United States had more relief IE water and food and Med supplies in the first day.. Provided by the United States Military… Fema did not even get the first aid into New Orlean for two WEEKS!!! So Fema efficient? Nope… States National Guard is who you call… Not Fema!! Fema is headed up by politcal cronies, not by sold profesionals!
Nice Try… I think the voter see’s this artical for what it is… Another left handed attack on the Only man running in this election that Walks it like he talks it!
Ron Paul 2012!

I responded to Katrina as a national guardsman. FEMA were wasting taxpayer dollars. We ate crappy food like soldiers always do, and FEMA were grilling steaks drinking beer in beautiful RV’s that were paid for by the taxpayer. We slept in tents and got all the crappy jobs while FEMA made a camping trip of the situation!
Ron Paul 2012!!!

Such a lame attempt to make Ron Paul look like the bad guy. The country is BROKE and we need to look at worthless federal and state agencies to abolish. Especially if they are inefficient and make matters worse for those they declare to “help”.

Ron Paul is right. FEMA does not represent efficient or reliable help to disaster victims. It does not represent a superior alternative to what states or individuals might provide on their own.
I have endured many a hurricane, and the occasional flood. Not once did I get the impression that Washington had a better understanding of our circumstances than we did.

The Largest disaster relief effort in American history wasn’t Katrina or the 9/11 trade towers it was the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire with damages equivalent to $5.73 billion in 2010 dollars . Immediately after the dust settled the stricken Northern California community began relief efforts combined with state and federal (U.S. Army). Corporations and tycoons donated money (100K – big for their time) and the U.S. Congress came up with one million dollars to help. It was the insurance companies’ worst nightmare and took years to settle claims and rebuild, but people did the best they could.
My point being that in that day of high-tech considered: the telegraph, steam locomotive and horse drawn wagons, the relief efforts to get people: food; WATER; medical attention; blankets and tents etc. looked flawless compared to the FEMA coordinated Katrina debacle!
FEMA is just another blood sucking leech draining the American people dry! Ron Paul is completely in bounds to critique FEMA based upon their track record – which speaks for itself! “EVERYONE GO TO THE SUPER DOME – THERE WILL BE WATER AND FOOD – I REPEAT THERE WILL BE WATER AND FOOD…yeah. right?

I haven’t seen many, at all, articles…actual news reports on Ron Paul that don’t have some sort of critical take that comes along with it. I know that in todays media everyone has to give their editorial perspective but for once I would like to just get a story about anything and be allowed to determine for myself whether I think something is good or bad, right or wrong. IF the media was a person I would fight him…alas he would tell on me though.

Lots of people in Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas do not exactly hold FEMA’s effectiveness in responding to disaster in very high regard. When FEMA can out do Wal-Mart in the efficiency and efficacy of its response to disaster, we can then discount the initiative and cooperative efforts of private citizens and private organizations, as well as the effectiveness multi-state cooperative compacts, in favor of a FEMA-type response.
Read Paul’s whole statement instead of repeating other reporters who have also not read Paul’s full statement. The sea wall in Galveston was not built by FEMA, but by the community of Galveston.
After you read Paul’s full statement, then listen to “Big-Box Stores’ Hurricane Prep Starts Early” by Jon Hamilton (8/26/11) and “Wal-Mart Aid Outpaced Some Federal Efforts” by Frank Langfitt (9/9/2005) both on National Public Radio.

Yes we ought do away with FEMA, especially after Hurricane Katrina when they blocked aid and supplies to the dome. They do not protect nor do they aid us. FEMA’s existence is not in the best interests of the people of the US, nor is the Department of Homeland Security. These agencies are the equivalent of the KGB, NKVD, Cheka and Gulag system in the Soviet Union. FEMA is bad news.

As a physician, would Ron Paul like to go back to the medicine available in 1900? Even 1940, 1950, 1960? We don’t need to go backward in this country.
As for those who cite FEMA’s lousy job during Katrina, just remember who was in charge of FEMA, and the country, then – Republicans!!!!

Ron Paul is as crazy as a homeowner living ten feet below sea level who won’t leave their home with a ten foot surge coming at them.

In support, hell NO we don’t need FEMA or a innumerable other departments and agencies that abolishment of their everyday costs would leave us completely fiscally healthy to deal with natural disasters case by case through the States.
Paul is not PC but he is correct and I find it refreshing. Get used to it America.

FEMA Wastes more than it helps!
Bought 2,000 trailers for Katrina that were so Poisonous that they had to store them for two years and sell these uninhabitable trailers off for pennies on the dollar!
You and I were forced to pay that bill and NOBODY got FIRED at FEMA!

“As for those who cite FEMA’s lousy job during Katrina, just remember who was in charge of FEMA, and the country, then – Republicans!!!!” – Tired of Nonsense
The lousy job during Katrina was initiated and nurtured by the local and State Demos.
The Repubs came in later to add their ineptness.

One expects Ron Paul, the patron saint of libertarians, to ask awkward questions, regardless of political fashion. I knew of his oppositon to the Federal Reserve and its methods but not of his objection to FEMA.

Paul is right again (what else is new?) What did all us spoiled spoon fed Americans do before FEMA came into the picture you ask? …We got by, that’s what. Nothing has changed in humanity to suggest that we aren’t all competent enough to get through a storm without the government. The people who claim Ron Paul is a nut for suggesting we don’t need FEMA are the same spoiled brat entitled Americans who are part of the problem. When you invite the government to oversee business they don’t belong in you invariably lose 2 things …your money and more freedoms. People need to wake up and stop letting fear guide every decision they make.

Pleease don’t mistake a bad response by the fed once with the fed being bad in general. Besides, why do you want a guy who HATES the Fed RUNNING the fed?

FEMA is only as good as its director. Bush crony, Brown, was an incompetent fool who should not have been the head. He had no disaster management experience. North Carolina Bev Perdue, said recently, that she had nothing but praise for FEMA, and how it is helping in this crisis

Ron Paul is a certifiable nut case who would have been comfortable in the 1750′s. Do away with FEMA? Of course, in the next didaster all the Congressman (especially those from the affected districts) would be yelling, why doesn’t the Government (Obama) do anything about this? Where is the federal Government when we need them?
Perhaps we should go further and disband all fire departments (after all, we used to have volunteer and for-hire fire departments, people carrying buckets of water to the fire, and we know how well that worked out). Lets get rid of the armed forces, coast guard, police, fire, garbage, etc and really be self-dependent-that puts us back to about 3000 BC and total anarchy.

Don’t mind Winston,he hasn’t his medication yet.Cheers whenever.

I dont need FEMA.
I have only heard horror stories from them trying to regulate support in disaster areas. I totally agree that this article was biased and timed so as to scare those preparing for a storm. We are all people and we as a whole are compassionate. We help our neighbors when we can and do not need someone from a beauracracy to tell us how to help. They are inefficient and out of touch.
It’s just another federal agency that steals from the people that should be left to the States.