Texas Conservatives Left Homeless By Floods Demand To Be Put In ‘FEMA Camps’

[KamaAina]

Not The Onion!!

http://www.occupydemocrats.com/texas-conservatives-left-homeless-by-floods-demand-to-be-put-in-fema-camps/

Texans are notorious for their suspicion of the federal government. From the Jade Helm 15 conspiracy to the constant Republican whining about “big government” and President Obama’s secret plans to take everybody’s guns away, it’s no surprise that studies show that 57% of Texans have an unfavorable view of the federal government. Perhaps that’s why Governor Abbott failed to mention the President’s phone call offering FEMA’s support during the his press conference on Tuesday. FEMA is already on the ground, working with state officials to coordinate the response and recovery efforts, and victims left homeless are clamoring for Governor Abbot and Texas Republicans to accept federal disaster assistance from President Obama and FEMA.

1,200 Texas residents have had their homes washed away by the raging floods, and are in desperate need of temporary housing- and the situation isn’t going to improve any time soon. “We’re very vulnerable right now,” said County Commissioner Will Conley of Hays County in Central Texas. “We are preparing for the worst and hoping for the best. … If we were to receive a small amount of rain, we could be right back into an emergency situation.”

As flood warnings sound once again over Houston, just days after the first storms ravaged the city and surrounding counties, Texans are placed in an uncomfortable position. Senator Ted Cruz, the Tea Party fanatic who shut down the government over the budget and voted against Hurricane Sandy relief money because it was “wasteful”, has suddenly found himself calling for the federal government to “fulfill its statutory obligations” and provide disaster relief assistance.

In theme that recurs among Republicans states across the Midwest, the incredible irony is that for all the complaints about federal interference and the overreach of “big government”, Texas is the number one recipient of federal disaster funds. Forty-six Texas counties are currently under a state of emergency. During the 2011-2012 years, Texas received over give billion dollars in federal relief money- effectively subsidizing their climate change denial and refusal to prepare for a rapidly changing world.

[ibegurpard]

1. What happened to their bootstraps?

[TheCowsCameHome]

9. Same as jockstraps - they were of no use to them.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. Just let them split into 4 states. And we get to choose

which stay in our union, not they.

[KamaAina]

3. I thought it was 5.

[awoke_in_2003]

27. It is all a moot point...

as talk of that was voided after Texas' secession and re-entry into the union.

http://www.snopes.com/history/american/texas.asp

Unlike what most Texas like to believe, they no longer call the shots.

[TexasProgresive]

6. It's up to 5 states and I don't think there is any choosing.

I believe any state can divide as well.

[DamnYankeeInHouston]

21. Nope, just Texas.

[TexasProgresive]

24. Article 4 Section 3 of the U.S. Constition

Section 3.

New states may be admitted by the Congress into this union; but no new states shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other state; nor any state be formed by the junction of two or more states, or parts of states, without the consent of the legislatures of the states concerned as well as of the Congress.

The Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the United States; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to prejudice any claims of the United States, or of any particular state.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

23. How the hell does one divide South Carolina, except into

worse and worser?

[TexasProgresive]

25. North South Worst Carolina and South South Worst Carolina

[ChairmanAgnostic]

26. LOL!

[Thinkingabout]

4. Cruz is not a Senator except in name only. He claims to live on the Gulf Coast but he must have

Slept through the years hurricanes have struck. I though when the asshole was voting against Sandy relief he should think in the future when the gulf coast would need help again.

[ck4829]

5. Sorry, bigfoot and the aliens are currently using those camps

[Doctor_J]

7. AS soon as we can move the black helicopters out of the way

These people make me

[elleng]

8. 2 Onionesque threads in a row!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026742802

[KamaAina]

12. That one actually is Borowitz.

[rurallib]

10. Are the basements of the Walmarts filled with invading troops?

[freshwest]

13. Of course. They're all Navy Seals in scuba suits. I'd be skert if I was Abbott. n/t

[tabasco]

11. Soooooo... they're ready to be re-educated.

Gooooood. Gooooooooood.

[okasha]

14. I thank the contributors to this thread

for their compassion for people who have lost their homes and/or family members, and who have barely survived themselves. You are true lights of liberal generosity and inclusiveness.




For those who might need it:

[freshwest]

15. I believe this is directed solely at the politicans like Cruz, NOT Texans. I'm a Texas native.

Place of origin bashing is wrong. After what is being revealed about ther CPD in Illinois, I won't broad brush the state because of that.

The chavalier attitude toward Texas and Texans, I understand, but those who indulge themselves in such guilty pleasures are neglecting that the elections there are very close, that tens of millions of Texans voted blue in 2008 and 2012 and that has been acknowledged by Obama more than once. And the fact is, that piling onto Texans who are just as horrified at these GOPs who run things, is a cheap shot.

I generally warn folks that Texas is not inherently stupid or bigoted any more than other states; but simply get more publicity. And that the GOP did an experiment on Texas, taking over media and churches, and that experiment is going state by state. No blue state is safe.

JMHO.

[Paladin]

16. Where do you see that distinction made?

Looks to me like some of our resident "liberals" are deriving great satisfaction from hard times befalling all Texans, Republican and Democrat alike. I wish I could say I'm surprised by this ugly display, but it's what I've come to expect from DU.

Native born, fifth generation here. And we are acquainted with one of the still-missing victims of the Wimberley floods. Not very funny.

[freshwest]

19. I edited to add more. As I said 'cheap shots.' Consider the source. They too are vulnerable to such.

It does not build party unity. In fact it's a diversion. I don't fault Democrats because a lot of posters here are not Democrats.

Because you don't just turn off such attitudes when you leave online... This is who they are. Believe me, they would be marginalized at my precinct meetings immediately and find no allies.

But the party does look at the chances in elections to invest hard to get monies for the different campaigns, as we are badly misspent.

I feel badly for Texans, who are seeing their dreams shattered, their homes gone and their families hurt. But not only that, who are watching decades of progress be wiped away.

But as I said, I don't know any Dems in my purple state who would ever talk the way I hear people talk on DU. Never.

[okasha]

17. Almost native born here. The parental units

just wandered a few hundred miles south for several years.

I would like to think this is aimed only at Cruz & Co., but this is not the first such thread I've seen, and it's nauseating.

[monmouth4]

18. Gawd does work in strange ways...n/t

[hifiguy]

20. Let it be said that karma has

a wicked sense of humor/irony.

[Fred Sanders]

22. Most Texans are not as insane as Fox News would have one believe, TV and radio wall to wall propaganda

is pretty much holding up the whole GOP house of cards about now.