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The usless monkey Obongo refuses Texas' request for assistance!
I don't know about you, Brethren and Sistren, but I am simply apoplectic at the Kenyan usurpers refusal to show compassion and charity toward the U.S.' second largest population area in the country.
The countryside of Texas has been decimated by wildfires during a long deep drought. They need federal assistance! How can that coon in the white house be so callous toward his constituents? I guess Texas was right to want to leave the union after he was elected.
Mr. Obama, give them that money they need! They are entitled to federal assistance!
From godly Fox News.
The countryside of Texas has been decimated by wildfires during a long deep drought. They need federal assistance! How can that coon in the white house be so callous toward his constituents? I guess Texas was right to want to leave the union after he was elected.
Mr. Obama, give them that money they need! They are entitled to federal assistance!
From godly Fox News.
FEMA Refuses Texas Disaster Declaration After Fires
FORT WORTH, Texas -- A U.S. House member from West Texas says he was "deeply troubled" by the Federal Emergency Management Agency's refusal to declare virtually all of Texas a major disaster area.
"Without federal assistance, these communities will suffer immense challenges and obstacles as they attempt to rebuild and recover from this disaster," U.S. Rep. Mike Conaway, R-Texas, said in a statement the day after FEMA's decision.
FEMA's decision will add pressure on the cash-strapped state to help residents and towns recover from devastating wildfires, the Midland Republican said. He said some counties have been forced to spend nearly a decade's worth of reserves to keep battling blazes.
Since the fire season began in November, some 9,200 wildfires have scorched about 2.3 million acres and destroyed 400 homes, according to the Texas Forest Service.
But Texas does not need more federal assistance through a disaster declaration because FEMA has already approved 25 fire management assistance grants, said agency spokeswoman Rachel Racusen. Each grant reimburses 75 percent of the state's costs specifically for equipment, firefighters' meals and other emergency response work -- and the disaster declaration denial doesn't preclude FEMA from awarding more grants.
Gov. Rick Perry said the FEMA grants will help with only a small percentage of the fires. He said the state is considering whether to appeal the denial of the disaster declaration, which would provide a wide range of federal assistance for residents and public infrastructure. It would pay for 75 percent of the total firefighting expenses incurred by the state -- not just the emergency response work.
Texas faces a $3.9 billion deficit in the current budget. Legislation is pending that would fill that hole with $3 billion from the Rainy Day Fund, and $1 billion in additional cuts.
FORT WORTH, Texas -- A U.S. House member from West Texas says he was "deeply troubled" by the Federal Emergency Management Agency's refusal to declare virtually all of Texas a major disaster area.
"Without federal assistance, these communities will suffer immense challenges and obstacles as they attempt to rebuild and recover from this disaster," U.S. Rep. Mike Conaway, R-Texas, said in a statement the day after FEMA's decision.
FEMA's decision will add pressure on the cash-strapped state to help residents and towns recover from devastating wildfires, the Midland Republican said. He said some counties have been forced to spend nearly a decade's worth of reserves to keep battling blazes.
Since the fire season began in November, some 9,200 wildfires have scorched about 2.3 million acres and destroyed 400 homes, according to the Texas Forest Service.
But Texas does not need more federal assistance through a disaster declaration because FEMA has already approved 25 fire management assistance grants, said agency spokeswoman Rachel Racusen. Each grant reimburses 75 percent of the state's costs specifically for equipment, firefighters' meals and other emergency response work -- and the disaster declaration denial doesn't preclude FEMA from awarding more grants.
Gov. Rick Perry said the FEMA grants will help with only a small percentage of the fires. He said the state is considering whether to appeal the denial of the disaster declaration, which would provide a wide range of federal assistance for residents and public infrastructure. It would pay for 75 percent of the total firefighting expenses incurred by the state -- not just the emergency response work.
Texas faces a $3.9 billion deficit in the current budget. Legislation is pending that would fill that hole with $3 billion from the Rainy Day Fund, and $1 billion in additional cuts.
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