DOOLEY Observed: Ron Paul: No Federal Financial Aid for Tornado Victims

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Sunday, March 4, 2012

Ron Paul: No Federal Financial Aid for Tornado Victims

By John Aloysius Farrell | National Journal

Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, stood by his libertarian beliefs on Sunday, saying that victims of the violent storms and tornadoes that have battered a band of states in the South and Midwest in recent days should not be given emergency financial aid from the federal government.

"There is no such thing as federal money," Paul said, on CNN’s State of the Union. "Federal money is just what they steal from the states and steal from you and me."

"The people who live in tornado alley, just as I live in hurricane alley, they should have insurance," Paul said.
Paul said there was a role for the National Guard to restore order and provide care and shelter in major emergencies, but that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) led to nothing but "frustration and anger."

"To say that any accident that happens in the country, send in FEMA, send in the money, the government has all this money—it is totally out of control and it's not efficient," Paul said.

I have always questioned the rationality of this. People who live in lowlands, by a river, sometimes flood every year, and expect the government to rebuild their homes. After some disasters, there are many empty trailers and buildings, always seemed like a lot of waste. I think some disaster areas have rebuilt on their own. If there is an individual house fire, the homeowner is responsible. If a house gets struck by lightening, which is a natural disaster, the homeowner is responsible. The difference is hard to spot. I still think they should let Walmart handle the disasters, I think they are better equipped and better staffed, and more intelligent than those doing the job now. I am aware of disaster abuse, right here in our community, and that was on a small scale.