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In reply to the discussion: If you live in Tornado Alley, blame yourself. Ron Paul says no emergency financial aid to those [View all]JNathanK
(185 posts)Cutting federal aide for natural disasters isn't something I'd want to cut. I'm willing to pay a certain amount of taxes for things to run more smoothly. I'm willing to pay a moderate amount of money into a food stamp program or housing program so that hungry, starving people who've lost their houses in the recession or who have lost their houses in a tornado don't end up killing me and robbing my shit to stay alive. Ron Paul and all these politicians and all those behind the neo-liberal agenda can afford to stay safe in walled off communities guarded by mercenaries. I and other lower and middle class people can't. If they're going to strip down social safeguards to the extent they want to, we need to realize were going to suffer the most from it. You might manage to keep a job and pay the bills, but if anyone has learned anything from the gang violence in black ghettos, it doesn't matter. You still have to worry about starving and desperate people breaking into your home and shooting you in the middle of the night.