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In reply to the discussion: The REAL Reason Why Republicans Want To ABOLISH FEMA: So They Can PROFIT From Natural Disasters [View all]Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)11. That's almost as scary as the disaster itself. It would cost us MORE, wouldn't it?
We'd have to pay for the services AND a profit on top of that?
This smacks of that private contractor the military hired to handle certain things in Iraq. It has changed its name. It did some awful things over there, and some of those guys got an astronomical salary for just standing around doing nothing. All paid for by the American taxpayer.
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The REAL Reason Why Republicans Want To ABOLISH FEMA: So They Can PROFIT From Natural Disasters [View all]
Segami
Oct 2012
OP
Thats correct. Its no different. And they don't care except for the bottom line.
Segami
Oct 2012
#16
EXACTLY! Halliburton. That was a total rip-off of Americans' money. Never, EVER should have happened
ailsagirl
Oct 2012
#49
Of course. Just like they are profiting from education at all levels, health care, banking
geckosfeet
Oct 2012
#10
That's almost as scary as the disaster itself. It would cost us MORE, wouldn't it?
Honeycombe8
Oct 2012
#11
Same reason why the GOP starts wars. A few people make a lot of money off of the corpses of
Politicub
Oct 2012
#15
How the hell could any private disaster company afford to handle something like Sandy?
Auntie Bush
Oct 2012
#20
First, they would only help paying customers. Second, when it really hits the fan,
tclambert
Oct 2012
#26
"To all you family members in other states--Won't you pay to rescue your loved ones?"
tclambert
Oct 2012
#30
Never ask why in this life until you have followed the money and still don't have an answer
TheKentuckian
Oct 2012
#27
That's exactly what I thought when I first read they wanted to defund FEMA, privatizing for
polly7
Oct 2012
#29
Abolishing FEMA and privatizing disaster help may be the most horrific kind of privatization for the
We People
Oct 2012
#45
Nothing new here. They want to privatize every aspect of our lives to make a PROFIT!
Liberal_Stalwart71
Oct 2012
#34
What's to prevent them from creating a disaster and then profiting from it?
mile18blister
Oct 2012
#36
K&R speaking of which...check out the privatization of prisons and halfway houses in NJ, eom
amborin
Nov 2012
#57
Yep. And choose the folks to help. And control people, repress people, grab power, divide us
upi402
Nov 2012
#67
They don't care. These are greed driven corporatists that want to put everything up for sale.
Segami
Nov 2012
#71
Two years of Rick Scott had me forgetting about how bad a governor Jeb Bush also was.
Tommy_Carcetti
Nov 2012
#72