{"id":9031,"date":"2010-05-13T09:14:50","date_gmt":"2010-05-13T13:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=9031"},"modified":"2010-05-13T09:14:50","modified_gmt":"2010-05-13T13:14:50","slug":"wingnut-fantasy-drowns-in-flood-of-aid-requests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=9031","title":{"rendered":"Wingnut Fantasy Drowns In Flood Of Aid Requests"},"content":{"rendered":"

The fantasy. The bitter, hateful fantasy:<\/p>\n

In several years, I suspect<\/a> most of Nashville will bear few physical scars from the 2010 flood, because the city and people of Nashville are not just survivors, they are winners determined to triumph.<\/p>\n

Years after Katrina, New Orleans will still be a stinking cesspool of quitters and defeatists crying for handouts.<\/b><\/p>\n

Look at the character of these two cities, and see if you can figure out why one will thrive no matter the odds, and why one will fail no matter the treasure wasted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Stinking, ungrateful, parasites are all like \"Hey, gimme some money so I can rebuild my house which was drowned under 15 feet of water, which incidentally killed 1,800 people, thanks to shitty under-maintenance of the levies !\"<\/p>\n

The reality:<\/p>\n

Tennessee\u2019s congressional delegation is calling for federal assistance<\/a> beyond the financial aid available through the Federal Emergency and Management Agency.<\/b><\/p>\n

In a letter addressed to President Barack Obama, Tennessee\u2019s two U.S senators and nine U.S. representatives requested that funds for flood victims in 52 Tennessee counties be carved out of the federal Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2010.<\/p>\n

\u201cTennesseans are helping themselves and their neighbors, but Tennessee will require federal assistance beyond what current emergency programs' funding can support,\u201d the letter reads.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause the Senate Appropriations Committee will mark up supplemental appropriations legislation that you have requested on Thursday, it is vital that a request for Tennessee flood relief come from the Office of Management and Budget as quickly as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some 18,000 Tennesseans have already registered for federal assistance, and more than $28 million worth of federal aid has been approved<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Wait, what? These \"winners determined to triumph\" are asking for handouts? Does this mean we should now think of Nashville as a \"stinking cesspool of quitters and defeatists\" ? I hope not. That seems like a pointless and ridiculous insult to someone who has had to suffer through a huge natural disaster. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The fantasy. The bitter, hateful fantasy: In several years, I suspect most of Nashville will bear few physical scars from the 2010 flood, because the city and people of Nashville are not just survivors, they are winners determined to triumph. Years after Katrina, New Orleans will still be a stinking cesspool of quitters and defeatists […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}