Hit by the hurricane? Need FEMA help? Don't count on Romney.....

[two-blocked]

Romney doesn’t want to talk about preparing for or responding to Sandy   
 
What do you say if you’re Mitt Romney? What do you say today, one week until the most important Election Day of your life, with the East Coast — including swing states — still trying to figure out what the hell hit it last night?
Mitt Romney is on record suggesting that emergency management services shouldn’t be the province of the president. In fact, he thinks they should fall to private companies, which can then make a little money off the deal.
Asked about the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) this morning, Romney didn’t want to answer the question. Five times, he didn’t.
Because what’s he going to say? His campaign hedges on the issue, but he doesn’t want to deal with this, not now. He doesn’t want to have to explain his complicated feelings on government and climate change. His base wants him to destroy the former and deny the latter. So, what? Now, after 23 months of campaigning, he’s going to say: Yes, the government has a role here?
What Romney is doing is campaigning. No, wait, sorry. He’s holding “relief events,” events in Ohio gathering canned goods to send to the East Coast. Here’s one scene from this apolitical act of magnanimity:
Somehow, I suspect that those cans aren’t going to make their way to any blue states.
Hurricane Sandy exposes the flaw in campaigning for president as an anti-government activist. Romney insists that government can’t create jobs, but that he should be elected to create jobs. He argues that FEMA should be slashed, but has no solution to draining flooded East River tunnels besides collecting dusty boxes of pasta.
A president should be able to answer these two questions: How do we both prevent and prepare for future megastorms, and how do we respond to the disastrous aftermath? For me, the answers come easily. Romney’s answers don’t come at all.
 
http://grist.org/news/romney-doesnt-want-to-talk-about-preparing-for-or-responding-to-sandy/

[briarpatch]

How many billions do you think fema squandred over katrina. How many billions do you think they squandred over the florida hurricanes a few years ago.

[Larry L]

Being that yer from Wyoming I doubt you have ever had the experience dealing with FEMA. Romney is right, it should left to the States and individual private companies. Just the experience from Katrina should still be paramount in your mind. I have several friends that answered FEMAs call for trucks and equipment to remove and haul debris. None were ever paid a dime and all lost millions. There's none that will ever work for the Feds or any arm of the Feds again, including Federal Contractors. Besides, what answer did you expect from him? He's not the President, the black communist is but he's playing golf or planning his wifes next vacation at taxpayer expense with her 28 slaves.....er, assistance's. And just what is the great one doing? Nothing. Have they sent the trucks yet, mobilized the military, sent any food stuff, planned the restoration of the area, etc? Nope, as usual, they'll just talk about it and besides, it's Bush's fault. What a bunch of losers!

[Bob Riebe]

Romney doesn’t want to talk about preparing for or responding to Sandy   
 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/30/fema-funding-to-lose-nearly-900m_n_2044105.html
What do you say if you’re Mitt Romney? What do you say today, one week until the most important Election Day of your life, with the East Coast — including swing states — still trying to figure out what the hell hit it last night?
Mitt Romney is on record suggesting that emergency management services shouldn’t be the province of the president. In fact, he thinks they should fall to private companies, which can then make a little money off the deal.
Asked about the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) this morning, Romney didn’t want to answer the question. Five times, he didn’t.
Because what’s he going to say? His campaign hedges on the issue, but he doesn’t want to deal with this, not now. He doesn’t want to have to explain his complicated feelings on government and climate change. His base wants him to destroy the former and deny the latter. So, what? Now, after 23 months of campaigning, he’s going to say: Yes, the government has a role here?
What Romney is doing is campaigning. No, wait, sorry. He’s holding “relief events,” events in Ohio gathering canned goods to send to the East Coast. Here’s one scene from this apolitical act of magnanimity:
Somehow, I suspect that those cans aren’t going to make their way to any blue states.
Hurricane Sandy exposes the flaw in campaigning for president as an anti-government activist. Romney insists that government can’t create jobs, but that he should be elected to create jobs. He argues that FEMA should be slashed, but has no solution to draining flooded East River tunnels besides collecting dusty boxes of pasta.
A president should be able to answer these two questions: How do we both prevent and prepare for future megastorms, and how do we respond to the disastrous aftermath? For me, the answers come easily. Romney’s answers don’t come at all.
 

http://grist.org/news/romney-doesnt-want-to-talk-about-preparing-for-or-responding-to-sandy/

They do not have to worry about Romney but they should be real afraid of what Obama has caused.

[Bugflipper]

I don't really understand why folks need a handout? Insurance covers the damage. Even squirrels have enough sense to put back food for hard times and live within a reasonable distance from a water source. If people do not have the common sense an animal with the brain the size of a nut has, why should others be responsible for them?

[mirage1988]

Flood insurance is from FEMA, private insurance companies don't cover floods because they would have to charge rates so high the fools that build and rebuild in flood prone areas couldn't afford the insurance, instead the federal gov't gets involved and spreads the risk among ALL taxpayers so we all can pay for new york city and new orleans to be rebuilt. It sure makes me feel all warm and fuzzy to know I did my economic patriot duty, (thanks mr biden) to help out my fellow man.

[BUGEYE]

shouldn't we all share in the cost to rebuild some new york lawyers beach front home?

[ropadop]

Obama, the Democrats, and the liberal progressives have demonstrated that they can't manage these large government programs in a fiscally sound and sustainable manner. It used to be "tax and spend". Now it is "spend and tax". You can't spend your way out of every problem with money that is conjured up out of nothing. There are so  many examples of pure waste and abuse over the last four years.  Romney understands business and economics. He has a proven track record in Mass. and in the Olympics. I think he will bring some fiscal sanity to FEMA and  all other federal government programs. By the way, based on the pictures, too many people in this country don't have the sense to move their cars to high ground before the flooding. I understand you can't move your house. Should flood insurance pay for your car!?!  There is a dire need for self reliance in this country.

[tobster]

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Rest assurred....if there's a way for Mitt and his sleeper cell to make some money from the hurricane disaster they will.  That's what they do.
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"    So put him in the Whitehouse so we are on the receiving end for a change. Actually, I think what Mitt said( kinda hard to tell sometimes) was that states could better manage FEMA money than at the federal level. I bet there are still FEMA trailers rotting away in fields down south.

[SHOOTALL]

I don't really understand why folks need a handout? Insurance covers the damage. Even squirrels have enough sense to put back food for hard times and live within a reasonable distance from a water source. If people do not have the common sense an animal with the brain the size of a nut has, why should others be responsible for them?

great post

[magooch]

I have experienced what the federal government can do when a disaster strikes.  They actually can be helpful in getting the ball rolling, but usually it is on projects other than fixing up homes.  That is still up to home owners and their insurance. 
 
When Mt. St. Helens blew up, it caused enormous damage to roads, bridges and rivers.  One of the rivers that I live near was filled up with sediment from the mountain.  The federal government tasked the Corp of Engineers to dredge the river and build dikes along parts of the river where needed.  Incidently, all the work was done by private contractors who bid on the jobs. 
I live behind one of those dikes, so it turned out to be a very good thing, but guess what--we're still paying the federal government back for that dike via a property tax assessment.  That is as it should be.
 
On the other hand, we were given phony information by the federal agents who came here and held meetings to inform us what we would be entitled to claim on our federal income taxes.  Everyone who was affected did exactly as we were instructed to do.  We were all audited and much of the damage claims were denied by the IRS and they wanted to collect thousands of dollars.  I was able to talk them down to a couple thousand and got them off my back.
 
This was back in the Jimma Carter era.  He did come here and took a look at the damage and his administration was helpful in getting things expedited.  The federal government is still dealing with problems caused by Mt. St. Helens.  Maybe they should, because it's their mountain.  It sits right in the middle of a National forest.
 
Rather than rag on Mitt Romney about a disaster that he has no part in, wouldn't it be more appropriate to see how well the Kenyan does?

[Dixie Dude]

For you liberal socialist guys.  I live in the deep south.  Ok, my area immediately sent aid in food, water, clothes, money for hotels, etc.  This money was collected from churches and PRIVATE charities and volunteers went immediately to help.  By the time FEMA got around to helping, they ran all the private help out and they took over.  Of course, they botched a lot and didn't really help much.  They sent hundreds of trailers and set up trailer parks, but that took WEEKS, because they had to get the utilities installed for these parks.  In the meantime, volunteer families locally took in people, helped them out, helped them get jobs, etc.  That is why half the people never went back to NO.  They resettled elsewhere.  FEMA is a joke.  We get more immediate help done by volunteers.  Another thing, there were good old boys volunteers helping cut downed trees out of the way.  They ran them off also, they wanted "official approved" help to do the work.  BIG GOVERNMENT CAN'T FIX EVERYTHING.  Things like this are better managed at the state level. 
 
Oh, and yes, there are Fema trailers rotting in the fields down south.  Also if you are put in a FEMA trailer, you can't bring your guns with you, no guns allowed.  No self protection. 
 
During the tornados last year in Alabama, everything was handled locally, and there was no looting, and a lot of the damage was in black neighborhoods, Hmmm.  Same thing happened with flooding in Iowa, no looting, hmmm. 
 
Only with big government creating the, you owe me mentality, is there looting involved.  Hard working decent people respect others property. 

[Bob Riebe]

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Rest assurred....if there's a way for Mitt and his sleeper cell to make some money from the hurricane disaster they will.  That's what they do.
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"    So put him in the Whitehouse so we are on the receiving end for a change. Actually, I think what Mitt said( kinda hard to tell sometimes) was that states could better manage FEMA money than at the federal level. I bet there are still FEMA trailers rotting away in fields down south.

Bingo!

What Democrats loath is the fact that FEMA was designed to be the last responder, not the first.
Hey hey, liberals can take false cheaps shots a Romney, they will, they really do not have any other ammunition.

[Bob Riebe]

Privatizing disaster/catastrophe assistence is one of the more 'cracked' things I've heard The Mittster say among all the stuff he says....he seems to talk like a contrarian at all times with the goal of fast tracking the USA back to a 3rd world country.

..TM7

Give a link to where Romney said that.

[ironglow]

  FEMA has been a fiasco since it's inception.  What else can we expect from an agency that spends billions of dollars and can still be used as a politician's playground?  It is high time to get any disaster  recovery agency out from under the thumb of self-centered politicians..    http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/09/its-time-to-get-rid-of-fema/244860/

[boomerralph]

remarks from one of the early GOP debates. CNN's John King asked if 'the states should take on more' of a role in disaster relief as FEMA was running out of money. Mr. Romney: 'Absolutely. Every time you have an occasion to take something from the federal government and send it back to the states, that's the right direction. And if you can go even further and send it back to the private sector, that's even better. Instead of thinking in the federal budget, what we should cut -- we should ask ourselves the opposite question. What should we keep? We should take all of what we're doing at the federal level and say, what are the things we're doing that we don't have to do? And those things we've got to stop doing, because we're borrowing $1.6 trillion more this year than we're taking in.' This isn't an argument for abolishing FEMA so much as it is for the traditional federalist view that the feds shouldn't supplant state action. ... Citizens in the Northeast aren't turning on their TVs, if they have electricity, to hear Mr. Obama opine about subway flooding. They're tuning in to hear Governor Chris Christie talk about the damage to the Jersey shore, Mayor Mike Bloomberg tell them when bus service might resume in New York City, and Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy say when the state's highways might reopen. Energetic governors and mayors are best equipped to handle disaster relief because they know their cities and neighborhoods far better than the feds ever will, and they know their citizens will hold them accountable. ... The rush to use Hurricane Sandy to justify a bigger federal government makes us wonder if there's an excuse liberals won't use to grow Leviathan? The reality of the federal fisc is that whoever wins next Tuesday is going to have to choose between functions best done by the federal government and those that can be done better by others. A government that can't distinguish between a big storm and Big Bird is simply too big."

[boomerralph]

FEMA is so efficient that they still have a refrigerated warehouse full of ice left over from the Florida hurricanes.  It arrived late, after the power was restored, and was not needed. Now out of date, so it cannot be given away or sold. Meanwhile us taxpayers are paying the monthly storage bill waiting on FEMA to decide what to do,,,years later.

[Cuts Crooked]

 
 
During the tornados last year in Alabama, everything was handled locally, and there was no looting, and a lot of the damage was in black neighborhoods, Hmmm.  Same thing happened with flooding in Iowa, no looting, hmmm. 
 
Only with big government creating the, you owe me mentality, is there looting involved.  Hard working decent people respect others property.

I was deployed to NO, post Katrina, and I was here in Iowa during the floods......You can keep FEMA in Washington!!!!!!!!! Their waste and inefficiency is absolutely astounding!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Hairy Chest]

shouldn't we all share in the cost to rebuild some new york lawyers beach front home?

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Uh-huh.  That's what the Oli-plutocrats think. They think because they live on risky, dangerous coastal or beach front properties they should pay less and be supported.  Mayor Bloomberg is on record during hurricane preparedness TeeVee appearance saying exactly that_ _exactly that!.
This is the plutocrat's mindthink and the people you support and would like to elect to public offices!
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..TM7

Romney has a beach front home too.  You bet he'll be cashing in on whatever government aid he will be getting.  Robber barons, scoundrels and budding crooks is what they all are.   

[Bob Riebe]

Privatizing disaster/catastrophe assistence is one of the more 'cracked' things I've heard The Mittster say among all the stuff he says....he seems to talk like a contrarian at all times with the goal of fast tracking the USA back to a 3rd world country.

..TM7

Give a link to where Romney said that.

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 Sure, and on youtube at a debate if I recall....fyi...TM7
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 News about Mitt + privatizing disaster reliefbing.com/news

• Superstorm Sandy and Romney 's FEMA Dismantlization Plan C6.tv·10 hours ago   "Mitt Romney's past comments about dismantling FEMA and privatizing disaster relief have come back to haunt him as Hurricane Sandy begins to wreak havoc on the East Coast. Still, one Republican strategist, Ron Bonjean,…
• Romney on 'Immoral' Federal Disaster Relief Spending and Privatizing FEMA: VIDEO Towleroad·2 days ago
• Mitt Romney under fire over plans to scale back disaster relief agency in wake of Sandy disaster Daily Telegraph·18 hours ago

• Romney on 'Immoral' Federal Disaster Relief Spending and ... www.towleroad.com/2012/10/romneydisaster.htmlRomney on 'Immoral' Federal Disaster Relief Spending and Privatizing FEMA: ... Mitt Romney Expresses Horror That Gays are Marrying and …
• C'mon Mitt, Privatizing Disaster Relief Would be a Disaster ... sjgulitti.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/31/14828506-cmon-mitt...3 hours agoOct 31, 2012 · he solution to problems with federal disaster relief isn't to be found in Mitt Romney's original statements, his new spin or among the thoughts of ...
   
• Watch: Romney Proposes Gutting or Privatizing FEMA, Leaving ... www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/08/paul-ryan-mitt-romney-tampa-femaAug 23, 2012 · But under a Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan administration, ... Romney Proposed Gutting or Privatizing FEMA, Leaving Disaster Relief to States
   
• Mitt Romney: Federal Disaster Relief For Tornado And Flood … thinkprogress.org/climate/2011/06/14/244973/mitt-romney-federal...Jun 14, 2011 · Asked about federal disaster relief for recent tornado and flood victims at last night’s GOP debate, candidate Mitt Romney called the spending “immoral ...
   
• Romney Proposes Gutting or Privatizing FEMA, Leaving Disaster ... www.matchdoctor.com/...or_Privatizing...Disaster_Relief_to_States.htmlBy Tim Murphy Update October 29 12 29 a m EST With Hurricane Sandy set to make landfall in the Mid Atlantic Mitt Romney s policies for federal emergency …
   
• 2011 VIDEO- Mitt Romney: Federal disaster relief “immoral ... thepoliticalcarnival.net/2012/10/28/2011-video-mitt-romney-federal...Oct 28, 2012 · Privatizing this country is a priority for Team Romney, ... 2011 VIDEO- Mitt Romney: Federal disaster relief “immoral.” Tell that to Hurricane Sandy victims.
   
• Mitt, Privatizing Disaster Response is Immoral, Pathological Even ... www.treehugger.com/environmental-policy/mitt-privatizing-disaster...1 day agoMitt, Privatizing Disaster Response is Immoral, Pathological Even. Mat McDermott ... [referring to disaster relief] without jeopardizing the future of our kids.
   
• Romney on 'Immoral' Federal Disaster Relief Spending and ... regator.com/p/258059846/romney_on_immoral_federal_disaster_relief...Mitt Romney’s past comments about dismantling FEMA and privatizing disaster relief have come back to haunt him as Hurricane Sandy begins to wreak havoc on …

Those are personal comments used to supposedly describe the link, give me a link where he actually says that. He does not say that IN ANY of your links.

[Bob Riebe]

shouldn't we all share in the cost to rebuild some new york lawyers beach front home?

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Uh-huh.  That's what the Oli-plutocrats think. They think because they live on risky, dangerous coastal or beach front properties they should pay less and be supported.  Mayor Bloomberg is on record during hurricane preparedness TeeVee appearance saying exactly that_ _exactly that!.
This is the plutocrat's mindthink and the people you support and would like to elect to public offices!
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..TM7

Romney has a beach front home too.  You bet he'll be cashing in on whatever government aid he will be getting.  Robber barons, scoundrels and budding crooks is what they all are.   

Really is that why he gives millions to charity?
Well I guess it is better to take Federal money and give it to charity than use it to fly Obama to another Hollywood celebrity gathering.

[Hairy Chest]

shouldn't we all share in the cost to rebuild some new york lawyers beach front home?

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Uh-huh.  That's what the Oli-plutocrats think. They think because they live on risky, dangerous coastal or beach front properties they should pay less and be supported.  Mayor Bloomberg is on record during hurricane preparedness TeeVee appearance saying exactly that_ _exactly that!.
This is the plutocrat's mindthink and the people you support and would like to elect to public offices!
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..TM7

Romney has a beach front home too.  You bet he'll be cashing in on whatever government aid he will be getting.  Robber barons, scoundrels and budding crooks is what they all are.   

Really is that why he gives millions to charity?
Well I guess it is better to take Federal money and give it to charity than use it to fly Obama to another Hollywood celebrity gathering.

You would have to do that too to be President.  Everybody knows you have to suck up to the Hollywood Jews to be President. 

[dwalk]

Romney doesn’t want to talk about preparing for or responding to Sandy   
 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/30/fema-funding-to-lose-nearly-900m_n_2044105.html
What do you say if you’re Mitt Romney? What do you say today, one week until the most important Election Day of your life, with the East Coast — including swing states — still trying to figure out what the hell hit it last night?
Mitt Romney is on record suggesting that emergency management services shouldn’t be the province of the president. In fact, he thinks they should fall to private companies, which can then make a little money off the deal.
Asked about the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) this morning, Romney didn’t want to answer the question. Five times, he didn’t.
Because what’s he going to say? His campaign hedges on the issue, but he doesn’t want to deal with this, not now. He doesn’t want to have to explain his complicated feelings on government and climate change. His base wants him to destroy the former and deny the latter. So, what? Now, after 23 months of campaigning, he’s going to say: Yes, the government has a role here?
What Romney is doing is campaigning. No, wait, sorry. He’s holding “relief events,” events in Ohio gathering canned goods to send to the East Coast. Here’s one scene from this apolitical act of magnanimity:
Somehow, I suspect that those cans aren’t going to make their way to any blue states.
Hurricane Sandy exposes the flaw in campaigning for president as an anti-government activist. Romney insists that government can’t create jobs, but that he should be elected to create jobs. He argues that FEMA should be slashed, but has no solution to draining flooded East River tunnels besides collecting dusty boxes of pasta.
A president should be able to answer these two questions: How do we both prevent and prepare for future megastorms, and how do we respond to the disastrous aftermath? For me, the answers come easily. Romney’s answers don’t come at all.
 

http://grist.org/news/romney-doesnt-want-to-talk-about-preparing-for-or-responding-to-sandy/

They do not have to worry about Romney but they should be real afraid of what Obama has caused.
 

bold, underline italics are mine for emphasis.
jimmy carter was an incompetant, bumbling, boob.
obama is a cold,  caculating, arrogant, decietful, power hungry, insecure, wannabe dictator who has delibertly set out to bring this nation to it's knees by way of economical disaster...mostly thru excessive taxation. he knows the constituion has granted congress the power to levy taxes...but did NOT limit that power. his background shows his true intent and nature: associated with the extreme leftist, marxist, communists. both he and his wife, were educated at the best american schools ON THE PUBLIC DIME...neither EVER held a private sector job. (obama himself, was recognized a a dope-smoking "got by by the skin of his teeth" type.
are we supposed to believe he suddenly has become this kind, benovelent leader, who has care and compassion for all?
NOT likely...

[Bob Riebe]

Bob,,,those are links to a Bing search, page 1 of many pages, and their comments summarizing the articles..not mine (Ever do a Bing search?).  Click on any of them and read; can't spoon feed any more than that. Boomerralph tried to soften what the Mittster said mixing it up with big governmnet, over spending, inefficiency and the usual righty rhetoric, but I have to take Mitt on what he actually said...and I discern he doesn't like FEMA, doesn't like the Fed Gov coordinating/assisting people, and prefers privatization as his answer to everything.  Perhaps he just didn't like FEMA under the inept Bush Jr administration model.. ; plus sees an opportunity of making a ton of cash with disaster relief industries...which is how Mitt rolls by reflex alone.. Remember his stock and trade is finding troubled companies and then 'helping' them...
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He does not say that in any of the links so you are pasting lies based on the link originators opinion.

You should probably actually read one of your links once.

[Bob Riebe]

You would have to do that too to be President.  Everybody knows you have to suck up to the Hollywood Jews to be President.

That is only your opinion, so what is your point?

[ChungDoQuan]

Money Boo Boo would have the states and big money sell all the victims rowboats and hammers! The right just needs to admit it--- they don't HAVE anybody qualified to be President.

[SHOOTALL]

Money Boo Boo would have the states and big money sell all the victims rowboats and hammers! The right just needs to admit it--- they don't HAVE anybody qualified to be President.

HOG WASH !
what he wants is to cut federal waste and get more to those in need . Obama didn't do anything better this time the govonors and mayors did . Maybe you did not know the Govonor of a state has to ask for help ? In New Orleanes where was the democrat govonor ? or mayor of the choclate city (his words not mine) ? Did either go on TV with warnings ?

[Hairy Chest]

Romney doesn’t want to talk about preparing for or responding to Sandy   
 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/30/fema-funding-to-lose-nearly-900m_n_2044105.html
What do you say if you’re Mitt Romney? What do you say today, one week until the most important Election Day of your life, with the East Coast — including swing states — still trying to figure out what the hell hit it last night?
Mitt Romney is on record suggesting that emergency management services shouldn’t be the province of the president. In fact, he thinks they should fall to private companies, which can then make a little money off the deal.
Asked about the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) this morning, Romney didn’t want to answer the question. Five times, he didn’t.
Because what’s he going to say? His campaign hedges on the issue, but he doesn’t want to deal with this, not now. He doesn’t want to have to explain his complicated feelings on government and climate change. His base wants him to destroy the former and deny the latter. So, what? Now, after 23 months of campaigning, he’s going to say: Yes, the government has a role here?
What Romney is doing is campaigning. No, wait, sorry. He’s holding “relief events,” events in Ohio gathering canned goods to send to the East Coast. Here’s one scene from this apolitical act of magnanimity:
Somehow, I suspect that those cans aren’t going to make their way to any blue states.
Hurricane Sandy exposes the flaw in campaigning for president as an anti-government activist. Romney insists that government can’t create jobs, but that he should be elected to create jobs. He argues that FEMA should be slashed, but has no solution to draining flooded East River tunnels besides collecting dusty boxes of pasta.
A president should be able to answer these two questions: How do we both prevent and prepare for future megastorms, and how do we respond to the disastrous aftermath? For me, the answers come easily. Romney’s answers don’t come at all.
 

http://grist.org/news/romney-doesnt-want-to-talk-about-preparing-for-or-responding-to-sandy/

They do not have to worry about Romney but they should be real afraid of what Obama has caused.
 

bold, underline italics are mine for emphasis.
jimmy carter was an incompetant, bumbling, boob.
obama is a cold,  caculating, arrogant, decietful, power hungry, insecure, wannabe dictator who has delibertly set out to bring this nation to it's knees by way of economical disaster...mostly thru excessive taxation. he knows the constituion has granted congress the power to levy taxes...but did NOT limit that power. his background shows his true intent and nature: associated with the extreme leftist, marxist, communists. both he and his wife, were educated at the best american schools ON THE PUBLIC DIME...neither EVER held a private sector job. (obama himself, was recognized a a dope-smoking "got by by the skin of his teeth" type.
are we supposed to believe he suddenly has become this kind, benovelent leader, who has care and compassion for all?
NOT likely...

Bush ran on a humble foreign policy.  Look what he did.  He's a war criminal.  In Iraq someday they're going to have a Holocaust memorial for the Iraqi's that were murdered under his watch.  Jimmy Carter is a man of peace.  He did the gutsy move and told the truth in his book about Apartheid Israel.  Obama's a dictator?  Yeah, we need a dictator to save us from the Jewish Marxists running our foreign policy.  With him there is hope.  With the Bain Capital executive, we already know what he'll do and it won't be good. 

[Gary G]

Just keep in mind that the only way the government can give anything to anyone is to take it away from someone else.


So we argue who would and who would not take wealth from the poor and middle class in the middle of America and give it to the rich folks living on the coast.

[Hairy Chest]

Just keep in mind that the only way the government can give anything to anyone is to take it away from someone else.


So we argue who would and who would not take wealth from the poor and middle class in the middle of America and give it to the rich folks living on the coast.

Private individuals and companies make profits on the backs of the poor and the middle class. Unregulated capitalism results in a few getting really rich, while the nation suffers.  But that is the miracle of government when it acts as a representative of the people.  The people aren't billionaires, they experience hurricanes and deserve relief to pick up the nation when it is down.  Private companies don't do that.  That is the job of government to oversea a national economy.  Business must cooperate with the national objectives or they can get out.