{"id":5721,"date":"2011-08-29T00:40:55","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T07:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5721"},"modified":"2011-08-29T00:40:55","modified_gmt":"2011-08-29T07:40:55","slug":"femas-budget-shortfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/29\/femas-budget-shortfall\/","title":{"rendered":"FEMA&#8217;s Budget Shortfall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Due, in my opinion, to an increase in extreme weather occasioned by global climate change, FEMA is running out of money and no longer has sufficient funds to meet all of it\u2019s obligations to help Americans survive and recover from natural disasters.&#160; With Ron Paul campaigning to do away with FEMA, and the Republican leadership in Congress declaring that all disaster relief must be offset by spending cuts, we need to look for a better way to get the revenue FEMA needs than taking it from America\u2019s neediest citizens.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; float: left\" title=\"29fema_logo\" alt=\"29fema_logo\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/29fema_logo.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"360\" \/>With less than $1 billion currently available for federal disaster assistance, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fema.gov\" target=\"_blank\">Federal Emergency Management Agency<\/a> is temporarily <strong>suspending payments to rebuild roads, schools and other structures<\/strong> destroyed during spring tornadoes in Joplin, Mo. and southern states in order to pay for damage caused by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/capital-weather-gang\" target=\"_blank\">Hurricane Irene<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>FEMA will still pay people eligible for individual storm assistance and some states recouping emergency response costs from previous disasters. But the agency said it <strong>will place restrictions on paying for older longer-term public rebuilding and mitigation projects<\/strong> in order to ensure the solvency of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fema.gov\/hazard\/dproc.shtm\" target=\"_blank\">federal disaster relief fund<\/a>, which pays for emergency management costs and public rebuilding projects.<\/p>\n<p>The decision affects the spring tornadoes and disasters dating back several years and \u201cprioritizes the immediate, urgent needs of survivors and states when preparing for or responding to a disaster,\u201d said FEMA spokeswoman Rachel Racusen\u2026 [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/federal-eye\/post\/fema-moving-money-around-to-pay-for-hurricane-irene\/2011\/08\/28\/gIQAWwmhkJ_blog.html\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">In my view, only one solution fits the picture perfectly.&#160; Since fossil fuel use is the single biggest contributor to global climate change, thereby exacerbating the extreme weather, it is the last thing America should subsidize.&#160; The best solution is to bring corporate welfare for the oil, gas and coal industries to an end and use the money saved by eliminating fossil fuel subsidies to fund FEMA and to subsidize the development and implementation of green energy.&#160; To make this possible, Republicans must be removed from office to the extent that they no longer have the power to block what America needs to survive.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due, in my opinion, to an increase in extreme weather occasioned by global climate change, FEMA is running out of money and no longer has sufficient funds to meet all of it\u2019s obligations to help Americans survive and recover from natural disasters.&#160; With Ron Paul campaigning to do away with FEMA, and the Republican leadership <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/29\/femas-budget-shortfall\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}