Showing posts with label FEMA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label FEMA. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

FEMA has refused financial and any aid to the town of Harrisburg Illinois, for low interest loans. They were wiped out completely by a tornado.

FEMA is refusing to help U.S. citizens with low interest loans after they were completely wiped out by tornadoes. One town Harrisburg, Illinois was leveled by a tornado, there is nothing left there. Yet FEMA is refusing financial assistance due to "the damage not being bad enough throughout the state."

Here is one article about FEMA refusing to help the town of Harrisburg, Illinois from MSNBC,
besides the news report video below about it.   

 Harrisburg, Illinois. March 2012

Now - I would like to link this FEMA document of what they did for the town of Joplin Missouri last year, which was wiped out by a tornado. How come they will help one town, but not another wiped out?

Portion from FEMA document:

FEMA identified 586 households as eligible for and needing temporary housing. Currently 564 households occupy temporary housing units. A total of 598 mobile home pads are available for placement of THUs in commercial mobile home parks and three group sites.

The U.S. Small Business Administration approved $37.8 million in low-interest federal disaster loans to help pay for disaster losses, $26,211,000 for homeowners and renters and $11,674,400 for businesses and nonprofit organizations.

The state of Missouri received a $1.5 million Crisis Counseling Grant; $1.4 million was awarded to Ozark Access Crisis Intervention (ACI) hotline for Jasper and Newton counties.



So lets see here, the government can give banks trillions and spend trillions on wars and send billions to other countries (Israel, Pakistan, etc) for aid, yet they can not help their own citizens? Enough is enough. They won't even provide low interest loans to the citizens due to a disaster, but they will give banks and other countries money for free?

What is wrong here? What has happened to the morals of those who run this country? Where is the most basic empathy for people who have had their lives ripped apart? I just don't believe such immorality can keep going for much longer.