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FEMA is not a good friend of most people in Texas. Because they just come in and tell you what to do and can't do. You can't get in your houses and hinder the local people and they hinder the volunteers from going in. So, there is no magic…
Federal bureaucracies as a whole don't do a very good job, but FEMA has the worst reputation of almost any of them.
So my point wasn't -- I pointed out in 1900, Galveston, which is in my district, they survived without FEMA and they did rebuild the city and it was mostly local funds.
I said I will vote for the funds, but you have got to cut it. We're broke. The economic condition of this country is dire.
They would have been better off in Katrina if they would have just written a check to everybody and not gotten involved in all the mess that they did.
Well, the thing of it is, you create more hazard by the government by saying, well, the government, you pay this and the government will be there. They'll always be there to take care of you and pay your bills. Well, they're broke. They…
If you want efficiency, why don't we look at how thing were handled before we had FEMA.
I have had more calls on FEMA, being upset with FEMA than all the other agencies put together.
We've only had it since 1979. And they don't have a very good record. I mean, these natural disasters are very, very dangerous. So, I don't understand why we turn it order to a through bureaucracy. Thorough bureaucracy as a whole, don't do…
Rescue operations, I think so. As a matter of fact, my approach, I think was a very modest and reasonable approach when they came for funds.
Well, it raises the debt limit. And I've made too many promises I wouldn't raise the debt limit. I've never voted for the Appropriation Bill and I've been worried about our spending for many, many years if not decades.
Well, it raises the debt limit. And I have made too many promises that I wouldn't raise the debt limit. I have never voted for the appropriation bill and I have been worried about our spending for many, many years, if not decades.