{"id":840,"date":"2012-10-30T20:08:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T20:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/30\/feds-have-a-role-to-play-in-disaster-relief"},"modified":"2012-10-30T20:08:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-30T20:08:00","slug":"feds-have-a-role-to-play-in-disaster-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=840","title":{"rendered":"Feds have a role to play in disaster relief"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/johncassidy\/2012\/10\/romney-has-a-christie-problem-and-a-fema-problem.html#entry-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/johncassidy\/2012\/10\/romney-has-a-christie-problem-and-a-fema-problem.html#entry-more\">http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/johncassidy\/2012\/10\/romney-has-a-christie-problem-and-a-fema-problem.html#entry-more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This article from The New Yorker spells out Gov. Mitt Romney\u2019s blind spot regarding the role of the federal government in people\u2019s lives.<\/p>\n<p>He said during one of the many Republican primary presidential debates that the Federal Emergency Management Agency\u2019s duties ought to be farmed out to the states. FEMA, he implied, is a superfluous agency and that the federal government needs to eliminate it to help reduce the deficit.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s right there in the link. Open it and take a look.<\/p>\n<p>Then think about the mountains of praise being heaped on FEMA at this moment over its response to the Hurricane Sandy tragedy that has swept across the northeast corner of the nation. Republican Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey \u2013 a major and vocal supporter of Gov. Romney \u2013 has been heaping much of that praise on President Obama precisely because of the federal government\u2019s response to this national tragedy. I will repeat: Hurricane Sandy has produced a <em><strong>national tragedy<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>And national tragedies require a federal response.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/johncassidy\/2012\/10\/romney-has-a-christie-problem-and-a-fema-problem.html#entry-more This article from The New Yorker spells out Gov. Mitt Romney\u2019s blind spot regarding the role of the federal government in people\u2019s lives. He said during one of the many Republican primary presidential debates that the Federal Emergency Management Agency\u2019s duties ought to be farmed out to the states. FEMA, he implied, is a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=840\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Feds have a role to play in disaster relief<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}