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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTexas Conservatives Left Homeless By Floods Demand To Be Put In ‘FEMA Camps’
Not The Onion!!
http://www.occupydemocrats.com/texas-conservatives-left-homeless-by-floods-demand-to-be-put-in-fema-camps/
1,200 Texas residents have had their homes washed away by the raging floods, and are in desperate need of temporary housing- and the situation isnt going to improve any time soon. Were very vulnerable right now, said County Commissioner Will Conley of Hays County in Central Texas. We are preparing for the worst and hoping for the best. If we were to receive a small amount of rain, we could be right back into an emergency situation.
As flood warnings sound once again over Houston, just days after the first storms ravaged the city and surrounding counties, Texans are placed in an uncomfortable position. Senator Ted Cruz, the Tea Party fanatic who shut down the government over the budget and voted against Hurricane Sandy relief money because it was wasteful, has suddenly found himself calling for the federal government to fulfill its statutory obligations and provide disaster relief assistance.
In theme that recurs among Republicans states across the Midwest, the incredible irony is that for all the complaints about federal interference and the overreach of big government, Texas is the number one recipient of federal disaster funds. Forty-six Texas counties are currently under a state of emergency. During the 2011-2012 years, Texas received over give billion dollars in federal relief money- effectively subsidizing their climate change denial and refusal to prepare for a rapidly changing world.
ibegurpard
(16,685 posts)TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)which stay in our union, not they.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)as talk of that was voided after Texas' secession and re-entry into the union.
http://www.snopes.com/history/american/texas.asp
Unlike what most Texas like to believe, they no longer call the shots.
TexasProgresive
(12,157 posts)I believe any state can divide as well.
DamnYankeeInHouston
(1,365 posts)TexasProgresive
(12,157 posts)Section 3.
New states may be admitted by the Congress into this union; but no new states shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other state; nor any state be formed by the junction of two or more states, or parts of states, without the consent of the legislatures of the states concerned as well as of the Congress.
The Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the United States; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to prejudice any claims of the United States, or of any particular state.
ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)worse and worser?
TexasProgresive
(12,157 posts)ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Slept through the years hurricanes have struck. I though when the asshole was voting against Sandy relief he should think in the future when the gulf coast would need help again.
ck4829
(35,042 posts)Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)These people make me
elleng
(130,860 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)rurallib
(62,406 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)tabasco
(22,974 posts)Gooooood. Gooooooooood.
okasha
(11,573 posts)for their compassion for people who have lost their homes and/or family members, and who have barely survived themselves. You are true lights of liberal generosity and inclusiveness.
For those who might need it:
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Place of origin bashing is wrong. After what is being revealed about ther CPD in Illinois, I won't broad brush the state because of that.
The chavalier attitude toward Texas and Texans, I understand, but those who indulge themselves in such guilty pleasures are neglecting that the elections there are very close, that tens of millions of Texans voted blue in 2008 and 2012 and that has been acknowledged by Obama more than once. And the fact is, that piling onto Texans who are just as horrified at these GOPs who run things, is a cheap shot.
I generally warn folks that Texas is not inherently stupid or bigoted any more than other states; but simply get more publicity. And that the GOP did an experiment on Texas, taking over media and churches, and that experiment is going state by state. No blue state is safe.
JMHO.
Paladin
(28,246 posts)Looks to me like some of our resident "liberals" are deriving great satisfaction from hard times befalling all Texans, Republican and Democrat alike. I wish I could say I'm surprised by this ugly display, but it's what I've come to expect from DU.
Native born, fifth generation here. And we are acquainted with one of the still-missing victims of the Wimberley floods. Not very funny.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)It does not build party unity. In fact it's a diversion. I don't fault Democrats because a lot of posters here are not Democrats.
Because you don't just turn off such attitudes when you leave online... This is who they are. Believe me, they would be marginalized at my precinct meetings immediately and find no allies.
But the party does look at the chances in elections to invest hard to get monies for the different campaigns, as we are badly misspent.
I feel badly for Texans, who are seeing their dreams shattered, their homes gone and their families hurt. But not only that, who are watching decades of progress be wiped away.
But as I said, I don't know any Dems in my purple state who would ever talk the way I hear people talk on DU. Never.
okasha
(11,573 posts)just wandered a few hundred miles south for several years.
I would like to think this is aimed only at Cruz & Co., but this is not the first such thread I've seen, and it's nauseating.
monmouth4
(9,694 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)a wicked sense of humor/irony.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)is pretty much holding up the whole GOP house of cards about now.