Romney: FEMA is immoral

[(vikm)]

Maybe I'm just totally jaded at this point, but I can't hear him say anything these days without thinking he's been programmed to say what his handlers think the public would find appropriate. He NEVER seems sincere at all when it comes to this sort of thing. Really can't believe I'm in the minority of those that see it.

[the_poochies]

Any Republican who experiences storm damage from Sandy should just refuse assistance from FEMA out of principle. He can get his help from his local evangelical church.

[Lemon Drop]

(vikm) wrote:
Maybe I'm just totally jaded at this point, but I can't hear him say anything these days without thinking he's been programmed to say what his handlers think the public would find appropriate. He NEVER seems sincere at all when it comes to this sort of thing. Really can't believe I'm in the minority of those that see it.

no you're not jaded- I think that's what many of us see.

[(vikm)]

Lemon Drop wrote:
[quote=(vikm)]
Maybe I'm just totally jaded at this point, but I can't hear him say anything these days without thinking he's been programmed to say what his handlers think the public would find appropriate. He NEVER seems sincere at all when it comes to this sort of thing. Really can't believe I'm in the minority of those that see it.

no you're not jaded- I think that's what many of us see.
I know many here see it. It's just mind boggling that roughly half of the population in the States doesn't seem to (or worse yet, doesn't care).

[Lemon Drop]

(vikm) wrote:
[quote=Lemon Drop]
[quote=(vikm)]
Maybe I'm just totally jaded at this point, but I can't hear him say anything these days without thinking he's been programmed to say what his handlers think the public would find appropriate. He NEVER seems sincere at all when it comes to this sort of thing. Really can't believe I'm in the minority of those that see it.

no you're not jaded- I think that's what many of us see.
I know many here see it. It's just mind boggling that roughly half of the population in the States doesn't seem to (or worse yet, doesn't care).
One of the clearest examples is the deceptive ad Romney continues to air in Ohio, without apology, saying that Jeep plans to close its plants there and move them to China, and suggesting that the bailout is the reason. This is false and Chrysler has even released a statement saying just that, but Team Romney persists. It's only about winning at this point, honor flew out the window a long time ago, if it was ever there at all.

[Uncle Wig]

(vikm) wrote:
[quote=Uncle Wig]
Nowhere in the quote does Romney say, or even suggest, that FEMA is immoral.

He doesn't specifically single out FEMA, but it is included under his umbrella idea that it's "immoral" to run up debt in order to pay for programs such as Disaster Relief at the Federal level. His comment was another of his vague answers to a question that did mention FEMA by name. But no, FEMA doesn't come out of his mouth. Some have connected the dots.

(sorry, I was too slow, but was addressing the same thing Lemon Drop was apparently)
All he's doing here is what politicians always do: he's reverting to the general, boilerplate talking point to avoid answering a specific question. He's saying it's immoral to run up debt & pass it to the kids, period.

Please don't get the idea that I'm defending Romney: I think he's an oily, duplicitous prick. But this kind of "dot connecting" to put words in his mouth is the same kind of tactic that's decried here when it's done to someone on "our side." It's BS when Swampy does it; it's BS when Lemon Drop does it. Yes, I read the quote. YOU try again! :booty:

[$tevie]

I think it's obvious that Romney was trying to say that FEMA is something that "we’re doing that we don’t have to do". That's damning enough in my book. I think the "immoral" part is referring to the debt, not FEMA, and his comments are bad enough that we don't have to embellish them.

[Lemon Drop]

Uncle Wig wrote:
:booty:

Thanks for sharing what is most clearly your better side.

We get that you're reading Romney's words differently. Appreciate the input, it really made the thread.

[Lemon Drop]

Here's a political reporter not buying the line that Romney was evading a question, but showing rather clearly that he responded plainly to a specific question.

http://www.tnr.com/blog/plank/109306/why...ainst-fema

See folks, it's OK to read words differently.

[Manlove]

I read this article too and wondered how he would "privatize" emergency management and relief?

“Absolutely,” Romney said. “Every time you have an occasion to take something from the federal government and send it back to the states, that’s the right direction. And if you can go even further, and send it back to the private sector, that’s even better. Instead of thinking, in the federal budget, what we should cut, we should ask the opposite question, what should we keep?”

Easy to imagine a scenario -
"Help us! We are drowning/burning/being torn apart by a hurricane!"
"No, sorry. It has been shown that statistically there is no profit margin for helping you right now...maybe later."

Someone please explain who pays whom in a private sector emergency management and relief?