Recent flood damage in Wisconsin resulted in more than $50 million in damages to one county alone, a disaster by anybody's standards. Check that....a disaster by anybody-who-has-two-brain-cells-knocking-together's standards. Which of course brings us to the federal government, who determined that $50 million in damages didn't quite warrant disaster relief assistance. FEMA denied the vast majority of requests for assistance from families displaced by the flooding. How nice.
One of the few fortunate things about our government is their ability to throw large sums of money around in cases where it might actually be needed. The drawback is that they apparently have great difficulty deciding what constitutes need.
They can grant millions of dollars to study the sex lives of fruit flies, but turn down assistance to communities whose citizens have been displaced by flood waters. Really says a lot for the integrity of our elected officials, doesn't it?
Problems such as this will easily be overlooked when Americans go to the polls in two short months. Let's be about putting people in office who will (gasp!) recognize the importance of providing financial help in instances where folks genuinely need it. Disaster relief should be every bit as important as the other issues of the day.
Wow, water damage as a political rant...who'da thunk it? Okay, rant over.....
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