Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy on Ron Paul’s FEMA Stance, “He’s An Idiot.”
“He’s and idiot.”
Now that’s a Democratic Governor! In a moment of purest truth, crystallizing the essence of Ron Paul’s recent anti-FEMA rant, no one could do it better, or with more harmony of syntax. “He’s an idiot.” It’s long overdue, this simple dismissal of Ron Paul. And nowhere is it more obvious than here: this tightfisted Mr. Burns envisioning a world without FEMA. Like my post yesterday about Virginia Congressloon Eric Cantor’s observation that his constituents – chide, chide, chide – had not secured earthquake insurance, Mr. Paul is of the same mind. In Gilford, New Hampshire, as Hurrican Irene bore down on
“We should be like 1900; we should be like 1940, 1950, 1960,” Paul said. “I live on the Gulf Coast; we deal with hurricanes all the time. Galveston is in my district.
Though it’s less discussed, don’t fool yourself, people like Ron Paul are just as committed to defunding state governments. It’s taxes they detest, and, off course, state governments impose taxes of all kinds. Some, like Paul’s Texas, have no income tax. In the end, anti-tax people are anti almost all taxes. Here, in the bluest county in blue Maryland, Montgomery County, a group has fought property taxes for years and years.
Insurance company bankruptcy is more common than people think, especially in difficult financial times. A major disaster can also result in insurance companies going bankrupt: Hurricane Andrew hit Florida and Louisiana in 1992, resulting in no less than 12 insurance company bankruptcies.
Utilizing an annual budget of just over $1 billion ($1,008,928,156 for Fiscal Year 2010) in state funds, the Finance Division performs payroll and benefits functions for the over 8,000 DPS employees; processes over 50,000 invoices annually from various vendors; processes nearly 60,000 travel vouchers annually; deposits $55.5 million in over 800,000 transactions annually; tracks and manages capital assets valued at over $500 million; seeks out, receives, and manages over $400 million in grants awards and over $1 billion in Federal Disaster funding; maintains the agency’s general ledger; and provides the various agency divisions with budgetary information and other assistance to aid them in managing their budgets.
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