They hate the government until they need it

[question everything]

From a story in the WSJ:

Local officials said Tuesday that about 100 schools in the state are equipped with safe rooms that were built with federal funds. The money had dried up in past years, officials said, and many schools were on a waiting list.

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And who, I would like to know, "dried" these funds?

Yes, rhetoric.

[msongs]

1. if their god would stop sending tornados to kill them, safe rooms could be abandoned nt

[Bonhomme Richard]

3. +1 n/t

[Addison]

2. They hate the government BECAUSE they need it

[demgrrrll]

4. Good old Brian on NBC reworded the issue by saying that FEMA made it difficult to

understand the rules so people were not able to get the funds. No mention of funds drying up.

[question everything]

6. Yeah, right. One would think that a sentaor or a member of the House

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or even the governor would have made sure that the "rules" were understood so that funds were available. And if this was the case, they should have.

Edited to add, from the NYT;

Albert Ashwood, director of the State Department of Emergency Management, said the two schools that were hard hit — Plaza Towers in Moore and Briarwood Elementary in Oklahoma City — did not have safe rooms because the appropriate state financing had not been sought.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/22/us/oklahoma-tornado.html?pagewanted=2&_r=0

Same point.

[demgrrrll]

8. Absolutely. If everyone in Oklahoma was stumbling around in the dark there

should have been SOMEONE assigned to sort things out.

[Cha]

11. thanks right..blame FEMA, brian.. the Org that is out there helpling

Moore.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

5. The Republicans' crusade against big government is backfiring

[Jamaal510]

7. Or until they're the ones in power.

[Cha]

10. Right, and then they can raid the Treasury and send the military to

bomb a country based on lies.

[SpartanDem]

9. They don't hate it. You ever hear the joke about Baptist and beer?

Why do you have to take two Baptists with you when you go fishing? A: Because if you take just one, he'll drink all your beer.


Conservatives they pretend to hate government while they're around each other. But love it private, it's all a facade of piety so they can feel superior to everyone else.

[question everything]

12. Indeed. Look how in Texas they go after.... 501(c)(4)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10788901

(Joe Klein, in TIME, wondered about how complicated that 501 rule is that it has a sub-section (c) which, in turn, has a sub-section (4))