Tuesday, October 15, 2024

The Disaster That Is FEMA, Part 2 - Billions for Foreigners But Only $750 For Hurricane Ravaged Americans And Biden and Harris Continue To Be Tone Deaf and Out Of Touch

We have often discussed the many, many failures of the Biden administration:


  • Failed immigration policies.

  • Failed economic policies.

  • Failed diplomacy efforts.

  • Failed government initiatives.


To this fabulous list of failures, let’s discuss the latest government agency in the Biden administration to fail at it’s assignment and duties:


1)The Department of Homeland Security and the home of FEMA leader, Alejandro  Mayorkas, has already admitted that his organization did not have enough budget to properly support the millions of Americans that are suffering from the past two hurricanes. A lot of the shortfall in aiding needy Americans was diverted to feed,  shelter, and transport some of the 10 million illegal immigrants that Biden allowed to enter the country over the past several years.


Congressman Ralph Norman, summed up the reality: “FEMA, as well as this whole Biden administration has is here to protect Americans, our citizens, and hurricane Helene has put a tremendous burden on us, but, get this, follow these funds that have been directed at anything but Americans: $110 million in FEMA funds went to the emergency food and shelter program to assist migrants.”


Biden’s  press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, admitted that a lot of FEMA funds did indeed go to supporting the needs of illegal immigrants: “Funding is also available through FEMA’s Emergency Food and Shelter program to eligible local governments and not-for-profit organizations upon request to support humanitarian relief for migrants.”


A recent letter to Biden from some Senators further expressed concern about how FEMA’s primary mission, to help Americans who are victims of disasters, is morphing into an illegal  immigrant support function: “FEMA’s continued entanglement in DHS’s efforts to respond to the border crisis could impact its readiness and emergency response mission. Rather than ensuring FEMA is ready to respond to hurricanes and other emergencies, FEMA has been pulled into a border crisis mission. FEMA’s mission is ‘helping people before, during, and after disasters,’ not helping DHS clean up the impact of your Administration’s reckless border policies.”


What a mess, what a sad set of priorities of the Federal government.


2) Just to be sure this is exactly how Mayorkas said that his organization was short of funding for helping Americans: “We are meeting the immediate needs with the money that we have. We are expecting another hurricane hitting. We do not have the funds. FEMA does not have the funds to make it through the season.” He said this after FEMA has spent $1 billion on helping local governments to deal  with Biden's failed illegal immigrant policies.


Florida Attorney Ashley Moody has not been happy about FEMS’s horrible performance in this weather crisis: “This is not something that has just happened recently. Mayorkas has come in like a virus and infected what need[s] to be healthy, strong, fundamental programs to ensure the stability and safety of Americans in times of disaster. So, you heard they have taken the FEMA emergency food and shelter program and over time siphoned off hundreds of millions of dollars into basically making it an illegal immigrant resettlement program.” 


She further noted that Democrat controlled states and cities are declaring disaster from illegal immigration in order to get FEMA assistance from the Biden administration. 


3)One of the reasons why Mayorkas stated that FEMA did not have  enough money to help Americans who were casualties of the hurricanes was uncovered by Tristan Justice’s analysis of federal government records. Ms. Justice is a journalist with the Federalist.. 


This is what she found: “The Biden-Harris administration took more than a billion tax dollars that had been allocated to the agency responsible for American disaster relief and used it to offer services for illegal immigrants.” She alleged, based on  government documents, that FEMA “allocated nearly $364 million in the fiscal year 2023 and $650 million for the 2024 fiscal year to the ‘Shelter and Services Program.’”

Per Justice, the program’s purpose was “to provide humanitarian services to noncitizen migrants following their release from”  DHS.

Noncitizen migrants.” Not Americans in need, not homeless and hungry Americans ravaged by the two hurricanes, “noncitizen migrants.”  I bet that $1 billion dollars could surely come in handy in Florida, Georgia, and  North Carolina today. But it is good to know that those that broke our laws and illegally  entered the country from around the world have been taken care of, whew!

4)We had previously discussed the disgusting priorities of Kamala Harris who, in the center of the devastating hurricanes, bragged about sending about half a billion dollars to help Lebanese citizens that needed food, shelter, and medical support while millions of Americans were suffering from lack of food, shelter and medical  support.


This was about the same time that Biden bragged that yet another $8 billion of  taxpayer funds were going to be sent over to the wasteland that is the Ukraine/Russia war. Again, another tone deaf, bad timing announcement in the midst of suffering Americans.


And Kamala Harris finished off this tone deaf effort by announcing through FEMA  that the Biden administration would be providing $750 to hurricane victims for their “immediate needs” like food and baby formula. Half a billion dollars to Lebanon, $750 to American families that are hungry, homeless, and distraught. Despicable, tone deaf leadership.


Congressman Tom Tiffany gets it relative to this Biden/Garris tone deaf pair: “$750 for Hurricane Helene victims. $700 for Maui fire victims. $175 BILLION to Ukraine. FREE flights, health care, housing, and food for illegal aliens.”


Oh, one last thing. When discussing the $750 assistance per family, Harris said that families could apply online for the $750 financial support. But is she so out of touch with the dire situation that she does not realize that power lines are down across the hurricane ravaged areas, that Internet networks are down, that people no  longer have a house? But yet she ignorantly and flippantly says just go online to apply. So out of touch with reality and suffering of others.


That will  do it for today's FEMA disasters.  Taxpayer dollars sent around the world that could have greatly alleviated the suffering that those were so negatively affected by the hurricanes and so-called leaders that either do not care or are so out of touch with reality or both.

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Sunday, October 13, 2024

The Disaster That Is FEMA, Part 1 - Lebanon More Important than American Hurricane Victims, Mayorkas Continues To Fail, Budget Mismanagement and More

 We have often discussed the many, many failures of the Biden administration:


  • Failed immigration policies.

  • Failed economic policies.

  • Failed diplomacy efforts.

  • Failed government initiatives.


To this fabulous list of failures, let’s discuss the latest government agency in the Biden administration to fail at it’s assignment and duties:


1)The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is responsible for helping Americans in need when natural disasters befall them, be it as a result of hurricanes, tornadoes, flooding, wildfires, etc. In the past couple of weeks two major hurricanes would have hit the country, Helene and Milton. Helen caused major damage in Florida but the real  disaster was in North Carolina where floods, mudslides, and overflowing rivers have caused havoc and death.


Alejandro Mayorkas is the Secretary of Homeland Security and is in charge of FEMA. His previous disasters and failures have been his inability, or more likely, his non-desire, to protect the southern border from being overrun by over ten million illegal immigrants. Among those ten million illegal  immigrants were members of criminal gangs,  drug cartels and sex trafficking cartels. His failure at this function has resulted in danger, death, and violence to American citizens.


And now along come two hurricanes that have killed hundreds, left thousands homeless, destroyed billions of dollars worth of property, and disrupted the lives of millions of Americans. And while this chaos has been going on in many states, he has recently been seen casually strolling along a shopping plaza after having shopped at an upscale men’ store called Syd Masburn in DC.  Obviously how well he  dresses is more important than the suffering of millions of Americans.


Elon  Musk probably summed up this despicable behavior the best: “He’s shopping for fancy clothes while people are suffering from hurricane damage. This is some Hunger Games shit.”


That about sums it up.


2)While Mayorikas is clothes shopping, people on the ground in Bat Cave, North Carolina are dealing with some stark  storm realities….without the help of FEMA:


  • Bat Cave was destroyed by Hurricane Helene but has received no  help from  FEMA.

  • FEMA personnel refused to enter the area because there was a “Road Closed” sign in the road.

  • Rather than investigate how they could get aid to the Bat Cave residents, the FEMA folks just turned and went away, leaving Bat Cave  residents without the aid they desperately needed.

  • According to a news report that quoted a local resident, Chelsea Atkins,  “You can drive it [the road with the “Road Closed” sign] for sure.”

  • But FEMA apparently never even tried to get down the road to help those in need.


As a result, the residents of Bat Cave were  forced to rely on each other to do what had to be done to  help those in need in their area, FEMA be damned.


3)But things get worse if one views a video clip from a FEMA disaster preparedness staff meeting that was held back in March, 2023:


  • In that meeting FEMA Emergency Management  Specialist Tyler Atkins emphasized that FEMA would show preference for LGBTQIA+ communities over broader relief efforts.

  • in other words, LGBTQIA+ communities would get priority over other American citizens in times of disaster because they are “already disadvantaged.”

  • Specifically:  “They already have their own things to deal with. So, you add a disaster on top of that, it’s just compounding on itself.” 

  • This is obviously a violation of a FEMA policy whose core mission is to provide assistance and aid based on need rather than sexual identity.


Unbelievable that the Federal government would prioritize saving lives based on sexual orientation rather than the danger at the moment. FEMA should be focused on  doing the greatest good for the greatest amount of people in need in the shortest time frame possible, not checking someone’s sexual orientation card before determining their place in line for aid. Despicable performance and priorities.

4)The failure of FEMA to perform basic life saving functions in the face of recent hurricanes should come as no surprise, given recent whistleblower allegations of incompetence and mismanagement in the agency.

  • Congressman Matt Gaetz recently addressed these whistleblower concerns in a letter to Mayorkas.

  • Specifically: “My office has been in contact with whistleblowers in numerous emergency-management functions.”

  • He accused FEMA of withholding disaster aid, mismanagement of funds, deploying and paying for military resources to help in disasters but then never using the resources, allowing NGOs to use agency funds for airline tickets for illegal immigrants among  other misuse of funds.

  • As a result of misusing and wasting FEMA budget dollars, Mayorkas had to go public to insist that FEMA did not have the necessary budget resources to properly respond to hurricane disasters, leaving Hurricane Helene and Milton victims to fend for themselves despite the tax  dollars they paid for FEMA and Mayorkas’ priority to shop at high end fashion shops.

  • And this should not come as a surprise since a lot of FEMA dollars went into the so-called Shelter and Services Program whose purpose is to provide services to non-citizens, i..e. Illegal immigrants.

Just another example of both government incompetence and prioritizing the needs of illegal immigrants over the needs of Americans under stress.

5)Between the two recent hurricanes, Helene and Milton, hundreds of Americnas have died, thousands have been injured and millions are suffering from displacement, lost possessions, and stress. In the middle of these very difficult times and the failure of FEMA to deliver on its charter to help in  times of disaster, the Vice President, Kamala Harris, decided it would be a good time to announce that the Biden administration is sending $157,000,000 to Lebanon. Not North Carolina, not Florida but Lebanon half a world away.


Hurricane victims are hungry, homeless, aching, mourning, and wondering what they will do next to survive and she rubs $157,000,000 in these needy Americans’ faces. Oh, she also announced that this $157,000,000 brings the total amount of taxpayer money going overseas just to Lebanon to about a half a billion dollars.


Others properly pointed out how heartless and tone deaf this action was:


  • Actor James Woods: “This has to be fake. Even Kamala Harris, the gold standard of stupid, isn’t stupid enough to post this. Certainly not while North Carolinians are pulling the bodies of their neighbors from the wreckage. It’s simply inconceivable.” 

  • Congressman Nick Langworthy: “Could this be any more tone-deaf? We have Americans suffering and in danger right now after the hurricane, and this is what Kamala has to announce. America First!”

  • Journaliist Eric Daugherty: “To be clear – Kamala Harris’ campaign-suicidal post this evening focusing on LEBANON while major disaster rescues and recovery are underway is an admission she is losing Michigan right now.” North Carolina are getting meager aid while millions flow out the door to foreign countries.


FEMA is inept, Mayoraks is inept, minorities and foreign country citizens are more important than Americans, and Kamala Harris couldn’t care less about the hurricane victims and their sufferings.


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