Posted on 06/12/2013 11:11:17 AM PDT by JennysCool
WEST, TEXAS — The Federal Emergency Management Agency is refusing to provide money to help rebuild the small Texas town where a deadly fertilizer plant explosion leveled numerous homes and a school, and killed 15 people.
According to a letter obtained by The Associated Press, FEMA said it reviewed the state's appeal to help West but decided that the explosion "is not of the severity and magnitude that warrants a major disaster declaration."
The blast killed 10 first responders and brought national attention to the agricultural community. President Barack Obama traveled to the area to attend a memorial service for the first responders and others who died trying to help.
Obama told the families and friends of the those killed that they were not forgotten, saying "our hearts have been here in your time of tribulation."
He promised them the nation will help them rebuild and reclaim their small community of about 3,000 people.
Before jumping the gun on the anger train, does anyone know if FEMA helped out in Boston?
Republican Governor (Rick Perry) = No FEMA.
Screw ‘em, we don’t need them.
Boston Marathon bombing fund is over 30 million, and Wast, which injured and killed more people, is a fraction of that.
If we've learned anything about this administration we've learned they're all about 'punishing their enemies and rewarding their friends'.
F 'em.
I can’t see any reason why they would help in Boston, but understand your point.
The fund is privately financed
Did FEMA help.....oh yes, "everyone" knows that FEMA "staged" the Boston bombings with actors and fake blood (yes there are people who really believe that's what happened)
This aid thing is getting quite old. No aid should leave this country period. We are in debt up to our keesters. Stop spending my money.
Serves them right for not voting democrat.
As a Conservative, I don’t think FEMA should exist at all. Texas can rebuild this town better on its own.
He promised them the nation will help them rebuild and reclaim their small community of about 3,000 people.
Once he reads about FEMA's decision in the papers, he'll be shocked.
Same day he went to Planned Pa. . .whatever they call themselves, pretending with them that they do wonderful things, when they all know they collect 500 million last year alone, which helps BO in garnering support from 55 percent of stupid women who think it’s wonderful to be able to kill their children and need politicians to keep that right because one day they will no longer have the right to do so and they will be seen as worse than slave owners by reducing human life into something other than human with their words and worse than Hitler times ten as they have killed ten times as many as of now and counting.
The president originally was scheduled to address Planned Parenthood on Thursday night, but the appearance was delayed to allow him to spend more time in Texas with the loved ones of those who were killed or injured in last week’s explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas.
In his short speech on Friday, Obama made no reference to a pair of abortion-related issues that made headlines in recent weeks.
On April 5, a federal judge in New York gave Obama’s administration 30 days to begin allowing over-the-counter sales of the morning-after pill, saying the government’s decision to limit such sales to those aged 17 and older was “arbitrary, capricious and unreasonable.”
Planned Parenthood sided with the judge; the administration has yet to say whether it will file an appeal.
In Pennsylvania, abortion provider Kermit Gosnell is standing trial on charges of killing babies after they were born alive at his West Philadelphia clinic. He also is charged in the 2009 overdose death of a 41-year-old patient. Closing arguments in the case were set for Monday.
And he will say this is "unexpected", he'll do nothing about it and he'll most definetly blame Bush.
bttt
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