Disasters, Expectations and Disappointments

Not to discount or minimize the several extremely destructive forest fires that plague California from time to time, no singular natural disaster event that occurred in 2024 can match September's visit by Hurricane Helene to Western North Carolina. That storm, first bringing its expected rains, high winds, and flooding to Florida with the associated damage of high tides, was foreseen and expected. But the shocking destruction that one storm brought to Western North Carolina, over thirty inches of rain, wasn't. The cities of Asheville, Spruce Pine, Boone, Chimney Rock, and other smaller villages, filling in recent years with people escaping the growing violence and "wokeism" infecting big cities, staggers the imagination.

What is to be learned from this singular disastrous event? First, we realize we can abandon all hope that we can depend on the federal government for anything but mischief! In the hands of incompetents, it has repeatedly demonstrated that it is unprepared to respond to the immediate needs of Americans in disasters, the welfare of veterans, or the homeless. Their failure to provide in the wake of Helene amounted to a betrayal of the American taxpayer. Secondarily, we saw that American volunteers from local communities, churches, the Salvation Army, and multiple outside organizations stepped up uncompensated to render immediate aid for the relief of survivors.

It was not FEMA or the Red Cross! Volunteerism saw a Michigan fire department show up to render search and rescue assistance, police departments from other states showing up with cadaver dogs to seek bodies buried under layers of mud, and private helicopter pilots immediately showing up to extract stranded Survivor and deliver food and water where they could. Power companies from several states rallied to support Florida's power loss problems and North Carolina. So, where was FEMA? They weren't there, and when they did show up late, they attempted to direct food and other donations to their sites for dispensing to assert some level of federal control to cover up their incompetence. 

Power companies are the only truly prepared organizations ready to confront natural disasters. They use fossil fuels to generate power, drive their vehicles, and cook meals.

But disappointments abound. Bureaucracy has even tainted local governments. One pilot was threatened with arrest allegedly for violating the jealously claimed proprietary interest of a local Deputy Fire Chief if he continued his rescue efforts. That Chief had no authority to do that, just jealousy. If there was some authority to make such threats, it simply shows too many government regulations. That always results in wasted resources. North Carolina's National Guard did respond immediately with helicopters, earth-moving equipment, and even mobile kitchens, but no one ordered out the Army. The Army is being saved to confront MAGA protestors after the election. Biden's government is a clown show. "When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king; the palace becomes a circus."

Our Marxist government instead squandered funds allocated by Congress to FEMA for emergencies to transport, feed, house, and educate the children of millions of illegal alien invaders.

What does that tell us? It tells us there is no Congressional oversight. It also tells us the Biden administration is pursuing the Marxist rule on how to destroy governments by overwhelming their resources to collapse the government’s ability to serve citizens and aliens alike. This creates chaos that Progressives tell us only they can bring under control if we let them. 

That's where totalitarianism is born. Not to drift from the point, but the control of funds by corrupt politicians, many in Congress in league with unique interests, is the main point to be addressed, primarily FEMA now under the Cabinet-level administrative authority of Homeland Security (Alejandro Mayorkas). 

FEMA should either be separated from DHS, or Congress should re-establish its legislative responsibility by enforcing laws forbidding allocated funds from being used for any purpose other than that specified. 

This should especially apply to suborning positioning immigration laws to conform to the New World Order agenda and to have open borders worldwide.