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[Bob Butler 54]

(08-28-2017, 11:23 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: President Trump bragged about how well he has done with the response to Hurricane Harvey before the storm was over.

30K people are displaced.

The job isn't over, and he is bragging about how well he has done.

The area just lays low.  Much of New Orleans is below sea level.  Much of Texas is just flat.  It's not that the latest storm is that spectacular, but it hit a problematic target area.  It will take some time to clean up.

It's been said there hasn't been a major hurricane hit on the US in years.  In theory, that should have given the disaster relief agencies time to build readiness.  I guess we'll see if the instinct to cut domestic spending has crippled the federal response.  It seems so if the attempts to clean up after Sandy are any gauge.

Edit:  CNN reviews past struggles over funding with Hurricane Harvey likely to provoke polarizing fights.  One major theme is from the unraveling memes, cutting domestic spending.  When you need large amounts of domestic disaster relief, Republicans have liked there to be a cut in domestic spending elsewhere to balance.  The idea from the medical debate, "I've got mine, up yours" flares.  The idea that you want to share risks and costs fights a tribal notion that if the storm didn't hit your area, lets save money by letting folks suffer.  In the past, the Republicans have lost their attempts to cut other domestic spending, but the change in Congress's balance might change things.  On the other hand, the storm hit in the Republican south.  Who knows?

Another idea is that global warming causes climate change with more and bigger storms.  Perhaps.  One storm doesn't say a lot.  The long time between hurricanes striking the continental US doesn't make a for a great case.  On the other hand, the slow rise in sea levels isn't helping.