CBS Claims Southern States Are Too Poor, Incompetent To Handle Disaster Recovery

[Ptarmigan]

CBS Claims Southern States Are Too Poor, Incompetent To Handle Disaster Recovery Without Feds
https://thefederalist.com/2025/01/27/cbs-claims-southern-states-are-too-poor-incompetent-to-handle-disaster-recovery-without-feds/

While interviewing Vice President J.D. Vance, CBS moderator Margaret Brennan suggested southern states are too incompetent and poor to recover from natural disasters without federal help from FEMA.

“You know FEMA has specialized expertise that some of these states just don’t have in their arsenal. … How will states who are lower income states — the Mississippis, the Kentuckys, the Alabamas — be able to do this for themselves without federal help?” Brennan asked Vance.

This is rich, coming from a long-time corporate media anchor to Vance — the son of a poor Rust Belt family with Appalachian roots.

Brennan was asking Vance about President Donald Trump possibly “reforming or getting rid of” FEMA. “Instead of sending emergency responders, he may start to send a percentage of money to states to take care of themselves,” Brennan said, before claiming southern states are not competent to manage the funding themselves.

FEMA royally screwed up in North Carolina and Florida. CBS and the legacy media are on their way out.

[SVPete]

In real life, US Gulf states have considerable experience and expertise in disaster recovery.

In real life, FEMA drove away relief efforts while not providing needed relief.

Not that facts matter to Dems' MSM-shills.

[Old n Grumpy]

When we flooded four years ago, got in the way. Well, the city allowed homeowners to do their own construction. The city wanted a permit and inspection to make sure that the houses were dried out before they closed the walls up. But the city would not issue a permit until FEMA inspected the house obviously 100s of houses got flooded. There wasn’t enough fee of people to do the inspections and all it did was slow down the reconstruction..
Obviously, I was grateful for the money that I got that helped rebuild my house because I did not have flood insurance the delays caused by an unnecessary inspection were annoying.