QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls. The most massive characters are seared with scars.” Khalil Gibran
October 9, 2024, And Every Wednesday
By Linda Case Gibbons, Esq.
(Check out Lest We Forget and FYI.)
Putting the fox in charge of guarding the henhouse was always a bad idea. Whoever did it the first time around was really sorry they did.
Putting someone unsuitable in a position of trust is always wrong.
But things like that are happening in our own government.
Last week Secretary of Commerce Raimondo nonchalantly said she wasn’t “focused” on an impending, potentially crippling dockworkers strike.
In January, Department of Defense Secretary Austin took off for prostate surgery and didn’t bother to tell anyone he would be gone.
While his second in command was on vacation in Puerto Rico, Austin was in the Intensive Care Unit, at a time when the Israel-Hamas and Ukraine-Russia wars raged.
In July, Secret Service Chief Cheatle had to resign after she wasn’t able to prevent an assassination attempt on candidate Trump.
And last Wednesday Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas told reporters, “FEMA does not have the funds to make it through the hurricane season.”
The money went to support illegal immigrants.
$1.4 billion dollars.
Now we’ve learned there is a shortage of blood because it has been sent to Ukraine.
“I never asked anyone for anything in my life,” a guy who survived Hurricane Helene in North Carolina said. And now when he does ask for help, he’s told, “Oops! We spent all the money.”
Not only is the FEMA larder bare, but apparently the agency believes funds that are available should be distributed in a “equitable” way, to those most in need.
Such as LGBTQIA+, etc.
It’s on the FEMA website.
“Underserved communities, as well as specific identity groups, often suffer disproportionately from disasters. As a result, disasters worsen inequities already present in society,” it reads.
In 2023 a FEMA webinar panel discussed the need to “move away from policies that benefit the greatest number of people and instead turn the focus toward ‘disaster equity.’”
Translated, that means “equity based on characteristics such as sexual orientation and gender identity.”
Government officials were on the panel: Maggie Jarry of Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (?), and Tyler Atkins, an emergency specialist at FEMA.
Yup. Putting someone unsuitable in a position of trust is always a bad idea.
Especially when those people have a lighthearted approach to spending.
The U.S. has given $52 billion to Ukraine, $1.6 billion to Jordan, $1.1 billion to Somalia, $1.05 billion to Yemen, $1.2 billion to Syria, $66 billion for illegal immigrants in 2023.
$100 billion dollars to Iran...
While $3 billion was spent for homeless veterans.
And now, Kamala, who has proven by her own words that she is economically illiterate, has proven her inability to lead.
The people of Lebanon are in “an increasingly dire humanitarian situation,” Harris said on social media, on the heels of U.S. Hurricane Helene.
“I am concerned about the security and well-being of civilians suffering in Lebanon,” she wrote on X, “and will continue working to help meet the needs of the civilians there.”
The U.S., Harris proudly announced, will provide $157 million “for essential needs such as food, shelter, water, protection and sanitation to help those who have been displaced.” This is after Israel has been attacking the terrorist group Hezbollah in Lebanon for attacking Israel.
And this after $750 dollars was being given to some people in North Carolina. But Kamala didn’t add that part.
How in the world does something like this happen?
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had the answer.
“The problem with Socialism,” she said, “is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.”
True. And that is a good reason why we should tell Ukraine President Zelensky, “Volodymyr! Give us back our money!”
Charity is going to begin at home.
Hold the line, America.
Stay strong, Patriots.