Rick Perry Texas Cut Volunteer Fire Department Funding by 75% This Year

[sasha031]

Under Gov. Rick Perry (R) this year, Texas slashed state funding for the volunteer fire departments that protect most of the state from wildfires like the ones that have recently destroyed more than 700 homes. Volunteer departments that were already facing financial strain were slated to have their funding cut from $30 million to $7 million, according to KVUE.

The majority of Texas is protected by volunteer fire departments. There are 879 volunteer fire departments in Texas and only 114 paid fire departments. Another 187 departments are a combination of volunteer and paid.
For that reason, aid from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) could be more important than ever to the state where wildfires have recently been raging.

At a press conference Monday, Perry promised to seek federal disaster relief and said that FEMA would be in the state by Wednesday.While the Texas governor has been highly critical of FEMA in the past, he told CBS' Erica Hill Tuesday that now was not the time to worry about reforming the agency."The issue is taking care of these people right now," Perry insisted. "We can work our way through any conversations about how to make agencies more efficient, how to make Department of Defense equipment, for instance, more available. There are a lot of issues we can talk about, but the fact of the matter is now is not the time to be trying to work out the details of how to make these agencies more efficient. Let's get people out of harm's way."
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/david/texas-cut-fire-department-funding-75-percent

If there is anyone who belongs on death row, it's this son of a bitch. In a perfect world he would be prosecuted, sentenced and hung.

[Bluebear]

1. Prayer replaced firefighters. We see how that turned out

[TK421]

6. It is replaced by the GOOD fire...the HOLY fire..the fire that extinguishes ALL EVIL@#@

[demosincebirth]

9. Old saying, if you're praying for potatoes, grab a hoe.

[my2sense]

2. Let's see if the M$M reports on that n/t

[FloriTexan]

3. Thanks for keeping the blame on Perry...

and not on the rest of its citizens.

[Logical]

11. Please explain what the hell that means. So Perry was told to do it by the citizens?

[FloriTexan]

16. I was referring to the Texas bashing...

that has been going on. Many of us did not vote for perry

[SpiralHawk]

17. Yup - The Republicons have screw the Texas pooch MASSIVELY

with their greed to enrich their FATCAT Cronies and shortsightedness about what is essential for their state and the nation.

Now they want another chance to screw America's pooch.

[lunatica]

4. I wonder if any of those now homeless people can sue the crap out of him

Their homes didn't need to burn down. They wouldn't have if there was enough funding.

These cut happy governors are plain criminals in their actions. There should be consequences.

[Glimmer of Hope]

5. Fail. The damage will likely be greater than the funding cut.

[bluestate10]

12. Damage already approaching $7 billion. nt

[Scurrilous]

7. K & R

:thumbsup:

[sandyj999]

8. Hey Rick how's that working out for you? And the people suffer. n/t

[southmost]

10. so Texas burns for gov goodhair's trangressions

[spanone]

13. i'm sure the media is just all over this story, elaborating on the irony of rick's begging for fed $

****NOT***

suspect a democratic hypocrite wouldn't be afforded quite the same luxury

[TBF]

14. Thank you. K&R nt

[WorseBeforeBetter]

15. K&R