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Post by markbelding on Oct 23, 2024 14:20:41 GMT -6
The Federal Emergency Management Agency budgeted 20-times more cash for its response to Covid last month than it spent on Hurricane Helene aid. Official documents reveal that Fema set aside $4.9 billion in coronavirus aid in September, although the pandemic was officially declared over more than 12 months ago. According to official documents seen by The Telegraph, Fema made around $19.8 billion available for its response to Covid in the 2024 fiscal year, which ran from October 2023 through to last month. It represents around 40 per cent of the agency’s entire outlay of $47.6 billion for the year. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2024/10/08/fema-spent-49-billion-covid-20-times-more-hurricane-helene/ |
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Post by captbudman on Oct 23, 2024 17:28:22 GMT -6
The Federal Emergency Management Agency budgeted 20-times more cash for its response to Covid last month than it spent on Hurricane Helene aid. Official documents reveal that Fema set aside $4.9 billion in coronavirus aid in September, although the pandemic was officially declared over more than 12 months ago. According to official documents seen by The Telegraph, Fema made around $19.8 billion available for its response to Covid in the 2024 fiscal year, which ran from October 2023 through to last month. It represents around 40 per cent of the agency’s entire outlay of $47.6 billion for the year. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2024/10/08/fema-spent-49-billion-covid-20-times-more-hurricane-helene/Covid? What covid? |
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Post by striker on Oct 24, 2024 7:00:16 GMT -6
I feel like there has to be a difference between what is set in a fiscal budget for any random year like mentioned in Beld's link vs. what is accessed in an event such as Helene or the Other Hurricane. There must be some sort of emergency contingency fund that is very, very heftily funded, to cover this exact scenario. A Cat 4 hurricane in the SE. An F5 tornado that hits OK City. A 7.6 quake that strikes LA (prayers that this happens but the only total destruction is Sofi Stadium. I hope it's totally empty, other than Stan Kroenke, and it collapses on itself. Nope not bitter about the Rams at all). I am guessing the other budget mentioned is just annual paper pushing, admin costs, funding the agency etc.
And we really are setting that amount of money aside for COVID? Let's remove the COVID political BS and ask why that amount. We still have to keep an eye on it. Clearly there are pockets of flare up outbreaks, but nothing that seems as hardcore as 2020. A lot more is known. So sure, I'm guessing that our government allocates money in budgets each year to deal with disease, but let's be fiscally practical about it. 20 billion dollars? Is that needed?
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Post by markbelding on Oct 24, 2024 10:01:28 GMT -6
I feel like there has to be a difference between what is set in a fiscal budget for any random year like mentioned in Beld's link vs. what is accessed in an event such as Helene or the Other Hurricane. There must be some sort of emergency contingency fund that is very, very heftily funded, to cover this exact scenario. A Cat 4 hurricane in the SE. An F5 tornado that hits OK City. A 7.6 quake that strikes LA (prayers that this happens but the only total destruction is Sofi Stadium. I hope it's totally empty, other than Stan Kroenke, and it collapses on itself. Nope not bitter about the Rams at all). I am guessing the other budget mentioned is just annual paper pushing, admin costs, funding the agency etc. And we really are setting that amount of money aside for COVID? Let's remove the COVID political BS and ask why that amount. We still have to keep an eye on it. Clearly there are pockets of flare up outbreaks, but nothing that seems as hardcore as 2020. A lot more is known. So sure, I'm guessing that our government allocates money in budgets each year to deal with disease, but let's be fiscally practical about it. 20 billion dollars? Is that needed? What caught my eye is that Covid spending is still 40% of FEMA's budget. Just seems to be a lot of waste with our emergency preparedness systems. For the record, I believe that our emergency response should be limited to providing temporary food, water, and shelter in the event of an an emergency. People need to insure themselves against loss and the taxpayer should not be paying for any of this. I also would think that we have all sorts of National Guard units that should be set up to feed and house troops just about anywhere and anytime, so we already have most of these resources. This would be good training for the Guard to set up and provide these services in communities that experience disasters. The problem with FEMA it looks like to me is that most of the "help" is financial and paperwork. |
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