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These budget cuts are getting weird.
Yeah, they're not cutting subsidies to businesses, rolling back tax breaks, or anything that affects the deep pockets. Nope. They're cutting stuff that helps people at home and abroad. Cut FEMA here, cut foreign aid. Eliminating housing and food help.
I mean, they kind of said they were going to take this tack pretty clearly
Sure. But the people that needed to understand that weren't listening.
Selectively listening I think
Leopards ate my face is a thing for a reason
It's almost like we are losing the cold war in real time.
As has been Russia’s playbook since at least the late 90’s. It’s just now all coming to head
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics
This is money that will just stay with the states. For the best for places like California and Washington. For the worst for places like Florida.
Which is to say that this is terrible, but if states aren't giving money to FEMA, the money will stay there.
florida, louisana, and texas. far and away the largest recipients of fema dollars over the last decade.
https://www.axios.com/2024/10/08/fema-direct-payments-state-recipients
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't FEMA funded out of the Federal budget? Meaning if they cut FEMA, that money will just go elsewhere, not "just stay with the states".
EDIT added clarification.
Yes, but it's blue states that contribute the most and red states that take the most. Without the federal government distributing these tax dollars, red states won't be able to afford disaster recovery.
'elsewhere' as in tax breaks for the wealthy and funneled to lord diaper's designated recipients.
Hmm, I'll have to look into it. Not sure.
If you plan to drill baby, drill, natural disasters are only going to get worse, so they are mitigating against future emergency budgets they don’t want to pay by scrapping FEMA—leaving them free to destroy the environment and cut taxes with no future blowback, because states’ rights or some shit.