• ProfessorPeregrine@reddthat.com
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    2 months ago

    Surely you all know that this is not the end of the aid the government is going to give, that it is only a quick cash infusion to help with immediate expenses? Because some of your are acting like you don’t know that. This was the same line put forward by the Rs after the Vermont floods. It takes time to get full disaster relief to an area, especially when one party is threatening to put preconditions on that aid or to block it entirely.

    Whether it is enough or not is a different question…

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml
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      2 months ago

      Given the government aid people received in previous disasters, that’s exactly the level of aid people can expect. Absolutely hilarious that you’re acting like you don’t know that.

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          2 months ago

          Or, is it a consequence of misinformation?

          Your belief that the US government would meaningfully help its citizens during a disaster is the actual consequence of misinformation. One day the disaster will come to your home, and the government will abandon you, too.

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            2 months ago

            There have been two disaster declarationss near where I live. The town of Lyons was flooded and the Christmas Marshall fire. I also know someone whose property flooded in Florida just recently. In all of these I know people who got/are getting significant government help. I have a family member who lost their property in the LA fire, but it is to soon except for the emergency relief in this topic.

            There is plenty to criticize, but saying that the government will only pay these people $770 is wrong and the product of right wing misinformation.