With Hurricane Irene ready to strike, Ron Paul says we don't need FEMA

[ProSense]

With Hurricane Irene ready to strike, Ron Paul says we don't need FEMA

by Barbara Morrill

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After a lunch speech today, Ron Paul slammed the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, and said that no national response to Hurricane Irene is necessary.

“We should be like 1900; we should be like 1940, 1950, 1960,” Paul said. “I live on the gulf coast, we deal with hurricanes all the time. Galveston is in my district."

Yes, we should be just like Galveston, circa 1900, when a hurricane killed somewhere between 6,000 and 12,000 people. Here's how they dealt with it:

The dead bodies were so numerous that burying them all was not possible. The dead were initially weighted down and dumped at sea, but when the gulf currents washed many of the bodies back onto the beach, a new solution was needed. Funeral pyres were set up wherever the dead were found and burned for weeks after the storm. The authorities passed out free whiskey to sustain the distraught men conscripted for the gruesome work of collecting and burning the dead.

I hope that wasn't government whiskey.

[baldguy]

1. More proof that Republicans hate America.

[Ohio Joe]

2. Yet another reason Ron Paul is a douchebag - nt

[Tarheel_Dem]

3. This is why I don't get the Ron Paul enthusiasts. The man is NUTS!

He did an interview with Diane Rehm, and pretty much said that Katrina victims should have sorted out their own lives, which many of them did anyway. But I don't get how 10% of the population thinks Ron or Rand Paul are serious people who should hold high office.

[tanyev]

4. Yes, Ron, those certainly were the good old days.

:grr:

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[bahrbearian]

6. K&R

[alp227]

7. sad how he can be so nutty in these issues yet so smart about the military industrial complex

As a progressive I used to have a soft spot for Ron Paul because of his anti-war views and defense of WikiLeaks, but with these statements I feel so much more uncomfortable with the possibility of him becoming president. Oh, Paul's district (TX-14) is around Galveston and vicinity, and if a hurricane hit that area he should say "FEMA is unnecessary" straight up to a hurricane victim.

[ProSense]

9. Ron Paul

"As a progressive I used to have a soft spot for Ron Paul because of his anti-war views "

... is not anti-war, he's nuts!

[walerosco]

11. I have heard a lot of crazy things about Ron Paul

But Ron Paul is not anti war? WTF?

Next thing you know, someone will try to convince me that he is actually supports drug legalization, supports torture and supports bank bailout. Btw this is not a dare, so please don't start searching google

[ProSense]

12. Wait

for a non-supporter of Ron Paul you sure are defending his positions.

He's not anti-war, he's a nut!

[walerosco]

14. Ok try and understand this

He is know by EVERYBODY for being the anti war republican, the person who would pull our troops out of the 6-7 wars and countless numbers of military bases around the world, he is this close to be run out of the republican party because he is anti war and you are trying to tell me all that is a lie?

Look here prosense, I may not agree with a lot of his domestic policies but when it comes to foreign policy and anti war policy, he is right on and very few politicians can match him when in comes to being anti war. Btw, try and answer some of the questions I aksed in my earlier post instead of asking new ones and finally quit accusing me of supporting Ron Paul, I like some of his foreign policies and a few of his domestic policies (drug war), but that doesn't mean that I support him.

End the witch hunt

[ProSense]

16. Hmmm?

"He is know by EVERYBODY for being the anti war republican, the person who would pull our troops out of the 6-7 wars and countless numbers of military bases around the world, he is this close to be run out of the republican party because he is anti war and you are trying to tell me all that is a lie?

Look here prosense, I may not agree with a lot of his domestic policies but when it comes to foreign policy and anti war policy, he is right on and very few politicians can match him when in comes to being anti war. Btw, try and answer some of the questions I aksed in my earlier post instead of asking new ones and finally quit accusing me of supporting Ron Paul, I like some of his foreign policies and a few of his domestic policies (drug war), but that doesn't mean that I support him.

End the witch hunt"

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[walerosco]

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[Hippo_Tron]

21. Ron Paul is against the government spending money on wars

But I don't see anything in his vision for libertarian utopia that would be against somebody raising a private army and fighting wars.

[elehhhhna]

8. Paul endorses conscription!!! That's a corker right there.

wtf?

I've met the man. He doesn't know his way home from the other side of his district. I am not making this up.

AND he's dotty.

And his son is insane.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

10. I really don't understand why Paul is so popular on DU (and elsewhere).

His views should be anathema to even the most lukewarm Democrat. "But he's against the war!" Yes, but have a look at why - his reasons are pure libertarian/isolationist, and especially considering all the other crazy shit he espouses, his antiwar stance is no good reason to take him seriously for a nanosecond. He's deeply antichoice, has a following among some pretty rabid racists, and doesn't think there ought to be any kind of government assistance to anybody, ever.

He needs to be ignored. By everybody.

[Whisp]

15. Rand is a snake charmer. He does talk the good talk sometimes

and sounds very intelligent compared to the likes of Palin and Romney and that sorry Fartfest Club.

but as you say, under it all, he is one scary dude and I don't understand why he is popular here either. Like he would pass Universal Health Care when he wants people to fend for themselves in a disaster like a hurricane, good friggen lord. the nutz here.

[walerosco]

18. But

""But he's against the war!" Yes, but have a look at why"

forget the reasons why, because according to prosense, he is not even anti war \o/

[treestar]

13. They always wants to live in the past

Sure the local authorities dealt with them then. But not with current ability and technology.

[indepat]

20. By this logic, we need only a small militia, army, navy, and air force: not a vast MIC consuming

more national treasure than almost the rest of the entire world spends, this with 5% of the population. :patriot: