Republicans and Joplin cleanup--what a bunch of freaking JERKS

[RayOfHope]

and I am talking about local republicans, not elected ones (although they are jerks too).

I live fairly close to Joplin. Local conservative folks are using the overwhelming volunteer response as an example of "we didn't set around and wait for the GOVERNMENT to help us, by God we are doing it all ourselves. We don't need no government".

Yesterday my neighbor actually said that it might not be good to have so many volunteers there to clean up the debris because 'the victims get used to all that help.'

Today my father sent me an email from a cousin with the "we don't need the government, we're doing it ourselves' sentiment. Funny thing, she doesn't live in Joplin and wasn't affected. She also commented on how smoothly the managing and directing of 10,000 volunteers a day is going (she went to help).

Of course I had to point out that it was the government they hated so much that was responsible for things going so smoothly. The volunteer efforts are being coordinated by state and local government and housed in a state run university. FEMA has a phone bank set up for help, the county health dept. has administered about 2,000 tetanus shots to cleanup workers, the MO Dept of Revenue has set up stations to replace lost drivers licenses, etc.

The federal government is going to pay for 90% of the cleanup. People are bitching about that too. A comment in the paper actually said that if someone comes from out of state to clean up and gets paid, we should make it a condition of employment that they permanently relocate to Missouri.

I hate people sometimes.

[spanone]

1. the stupidity of humans is well chronicled

[monmouth]

2. Humanity is okay most of the time, it's the damned people that get

on my very last nerve....

[ejpoeta]

3. if no one had come then they would have bitched that the government hadn't come.

they just want to bitch.

[soufflez_moi]

4. If it would not be so cruel

I say "fine you don't want the Government, then your wish is granted"

Sometimes its the only way to get people to under stand why government is good.