By N.S.
"Kim Jong Un executes 30 officials over floods in north korea that killed 4,000: report"
"it's not the first time reports have emerged of Kim ordering officials to be taken out over a perceived failure"
https://nypost.com/2024/09/03/world-news/kim-jong-un-executes-30-officials-over-deadly-floods-report/
I could see at least 30 people who could be executed for treason in this country. Maybe P.T. could appoint Un to a newly formed Secretary of the Firing Squad cabinet post--if he wins--after proper court hearings of course.
ReplyDelete--GRA
I'd settle for terminating, in an employment sense, all 20,000+ FEMA employees. Shut it down. Sorry, we are the brokest nation in world history. If they're really that important, then pay for them with your own state and local tax dollars.
ReplyDeleteExcerpt from a 2005 article:
When Minnesota suffered flooding in 1950, Rep. Harold Hagen asked his congressional colleagues to provide relief for his state. He introduced a bill that became the Disaster Relief Act, the federal government's first means of creating "an orderly and continuing method of rendering assistance to the states and local governments in alleviating suffering and damage." The bill's price tag was only $5 million.
Disaster relief, like Social Security and Medicaid, then expanded, as Congress 13 times through 1980 responded to other tough situations by adding on grants for temporary housing, legal help and mental health. Presidents began issuing more declarations of calamity: Dwight Eisenhower averaged 13 per year; John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, 18; Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, 37.
The annual average dropped to 32 during the Carter administration and 28 during the Reagan years. But the number jumped under George H.W. Bush, who averaged 43 declarations annually, and it was off to the races with Bill Clinton, who more than doubled the total to 88 and was the first president to make snowstorms official disasters. George W. Bush has gone even further: During his first term he averaged 136 declarations per year, or one every 2.7 days, although there were fewer hurricanes (and fewer major hurricanes) than during the 1950s.
[and there's more... Marvin Olasky, November 24, 2005, from somewhere. Can't find it on the web but I saved a copy in my own files.]