Governor Rick Perry begging the federal government for aid to fight wildfires

[nonlnear]

I'm not suggesting they are bound by either, I'm asking for evidence that they are bound, period.

I don't believe they are bound. There is no contractual requirement concerning when they provide aid, how much aid, etc.

Gotcha. In that case, I agree wholeheartedly!

 

[wuliheron]

Obama should declare Perry a national disaster and send in aid

He should send him a letter with the phone numbers and addresses to mental health services in the area.

 

[CycloWizard]

A) You originally clearly claimed the US issued Texas an insurance policy. I guess you are now conceding that was a false statement of fact. Again, if you still claim there is provide specific evidence of that alleged INSURANCE policy.

B) As I indicated several times already these programs have provisions in them so they don't subsidize a state's normal expenses-like here in the Northeast, snowplowing for megastorms. My point is Texas is intentionally evading paying its normal firefighting expenses in light of a clearly indicated greater need-in the hopes of passing the expense onto the "evil" big government. That is hypocritical and wrong-especially from people that love to deride the welfare mama mentality.

Ah, so the problem here is that you're not familiar with metaphor. Got it.

 

[CycloWizard]

No, my "argument" is simply this: you claim the federal government is legally mandated to provide the relief requested by Governor Perry. You have cited no evidence that this is the case. You are now making some kind of muddled moral argument, not a legal argument. Truth is, I have no idea what the applicable laws and regs say must happen under these circumstances, and I'm not going to hunt for all the detail either. I will say one thing, however: I'd like to hear from FEMA and/or Obama about this decision to not provide aid. There has to be a reason for not providing the aid, and the merits of that reason are very much at issue here, but the reason itself has not been identified in this thread. I've got a feeling there are two sides to this story, and unlike you, and I'm not going to take sides without knowing both.

You're right. I simply assumed that the government will make good on its word to help states when they need it in exchange for tax dollars. I'm told by all of the liberals here that that's just what government does. Now, it turns out that that's not what the government does. What the government actually does is create many agencies (I found at least a dozen just related to wildfires during a quick Googling), then take money from people to pay the workers of those agencies to contribute absolutely nothing when they are actually needed, unless the moon is waxing gibbous or in some equally arbitrary phase. That's evil.