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Romney: Its ‘immoral’ to help states with federal disaster relief
As tropical storm-Hurricane Sandy bears down on the east coast, all those not in its wake can rest assured that if Mitt Romney were President the rest of the nation would not have to pay for or worry about emergency services, disaster relief, clean up, or emergency funding, because if Romney were President, he has promised to rid our nation of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, aka FEMA, and send this responsibility “back to the states” or to “privatize” the emergency services.
During a CNN debate during the GOP primary season (video posted with this article), Mitt Romney was asked, in the context of the Joplin disaster and FEMA's cash crunch, whether the agency should be shuttered so that states can individually take over responsibility for disaster response.
"Absolutely," he said. "Every time you have an occasion to take something from the federal government and send it back to the states, that's the right direction. And if you can go even further, and send it back to the private sector, that's even better. Instead of thinking, in the federal budget, what we should cut, we should ask the opposite question, what should we keep?"
"Including disaster relief, though?" debate moderator John King asked Romney.
"We cannot -- we cannot afford to do those things without jeopardizing the future for our kids," Romney replied. "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 we'll all be dead and gone before it's paid off. It makes no sense at all."
And if you do live in the path of Hurricane Sandy, under a Romney administration, tough luck, but if you are a strong proponent of the 10th Amendment for individual State rights and a small federal government, then you are happy, because that disaster that destroyed your home and community will not be anyone else’s problem but yours, let freedom ring.
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