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By Brad Johnson on Jun 14, 2011 at 12:40 pm
Asked about federal disaster relief for recent tornado and flood victims at last nights GOP debate, candidate Mitt Romney called the spending immoral and said the Federal Emergency Management Agency should be privatized. With greenhouse pollution on the rise, the United States has been struck by a punishing series of billion-dollar disasters.
Embracing a radical anti-government ideology from the most extreme elements of the Tea Party, Romney said that the victims in Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, Massachusetts, and other communities hit by tornadoes and flooding should not receive governmental assistance. He argued it is simply immoral for there to be deficit spending that could harm future generations:
Every time you have an occasion to take something from the federal government and send it back to the states, thats the right direction. And if you can go even further and send it back to the private sector, thats even better. [...] We cannot we cannot afford to do those things without jeopardizing the future for our kids. It is simply immoral, in my view, for us to continue to rack up larger and larger debts and pass them on to our kids, knowing full well that well all be dead and gone before its paid off. It makes no sense at all.
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http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2011/06/14/244973/mitt-romney-federal-disaster-relief-for-tornado-and-flood-victims-is-immoral-makes-no-sense-at-all/
Louisiana1976
(3,962 posts)whathehell
(28,969 posts)I don't care WHAT Party they're in!
Vincardog
(20,234 posts)bill on t his self-entitled spawn.
MichiganVote
(21,086 posts)No NPR,No Big Bird,No Unions,No Healthcare,No contraceptive freedom,No reproductive rights,No right to privacy,No public schools,No Habeas Corpus,No regulations Wall Street,No mortgage deduction,No food stamps,No school lunches,No Dept. of Education,No Dept. of the Interior,No regulations on pollution,No taxes for the wealthy....
Did I miss anything?
whathehell
(28,969 posts)What's next?...Personal Pavement paving?!
Tennessee Gal
(6,160 posts)Facebook, email, discussion boards, etc.
theglammistress
(348 posts)I've already posted this on my FB and I've noticed a lot of other folks are as well. I had the original Think Progress article bookmarked on my computer for a long time.
I remember watching this particular debate live. Stuns me.