Graves to lead FEMA

[TheCount]

That's a raw deal for them. They'd be better off keeping their share of the tax dollars that are funding that, even if their share is only $30 billion to spend however they want, instead of $50 billion that has to be spent the way the feds want it spent.

Granted, you're probably still right that the people and local politicians in those states who make up Trump's base probably don't understand that.

Nearly all of the affected areas receive vastly more from the federal government than they pay in taxes.

 

[Invisible Man]

Nearly all of the affected areas receive vastly more from the federal government than they pay in taxes.

Did you not see how I explicitly addressed that precise point in the words that you quoted?

 

[RJB]

Nearly all of the affected areas receive vastly more from the federal government than they pay in taxes.

Did you not see how I explicitly addressed that precise point in the words that you quoted?

Yeah, red states are as fortunate as Ukraine with the Federal bounty!

Seriously, like foreign aid, it's mostly corporate welfare. Other than that the only ones collecting are illegals, bureaucrats, academics and other out of touch bums.

 

[Anti Globalist]

FEMA has always failed people and it always will.

 

[TheCount]

Yeah, red states are as fortunate as Ukraine with the Federal bounty!

Seriously, like foreign aid, it's mostly corporate welfare. Other than that the only ones collecting are illegals, bureaucrats, academics and other out of touch bums.

Perhaps consider where all of our military bases are located.

 

[TheCount]

Did you not see how I explicitly addressed that precise point in the words that you quoted?

Yeah I'm not quite sure how I misread that to be honest.

 

[RJB]

Perhaps consider where all of our military bases are located.

Yeah. The corporate military industrial complex benefits from that. Around military bases, that filters down to bars and strip clubs. I think we're mostly in agreement here.

 

[TheCount]

Yeah. The corporate military industrial complex benefits from that. Around military bases, that filters down to bars and strip clubs. I think we're mostly in agreement here.

And then the space program...