Flooded Texas County Turned Down Funds for Warning System From Biden Admin in 2021: ‘We Don’t Want to Be Bought’

https://www.latintimes.com/flooded-texas-county-turned-down-funds-warning-system-biden-admin-2021-we-dont-want-bought-586628

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  2. Their pride matters more than human lives, and they aim to prove it. 

  3. I can’t even fathom knowing you’re prone to a disaster risk, having the $ for a system to warn people, and not doing so because you don’t like the president.

    So fucking stupid.

  4. More and more of these stories coming out. Texas officials did this to their citizens, and many citizens apparently applauded it. JFC

  6. Look at their voting record. That tells you everything you need to know about these morons and what makes them tick.

  10. Decisions have consequences. So instead of buying the warning system, you get to buy children’s caskets. Congratulations.

  12. How is that not criminal neglect by an entire local government

  15. Well, that was a really fucking bad decision, wasn’t it?

    **Biden administration:** “We want your citizens, residents, and visitors to be safe.”

    **Kerr County Republicans:** “LOL get fucked”

    People joke about “dying to own the libs,” but my god. This is more like “killing your neighbors and their children to own the libs.”

  17. This is a fascinating read. I cannot fathom how people get to be so brainwashed that they end up in this situation.

    > In 2021, the Biden administration awarded Kerr County $10.2 million in American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds, which could have been used for flood prevention infrastructure. But commissioners, facing political pressure from conservative residents, opted not to pursue a warning system.

    > At an April 2022 meeting, one citizen called the White House a “criminal treasonous communist government,” urging the county to reject the money altogether. Others echoed that sentiment, saying they didn’t want the federal government’s help.

    > While the county ultimately kept the funds, they allocated the majority, about $8 million, to sheriff’s department upgrades and public employee stipends.

  18. Not at all surprised.

    Back when Obama was POTUS, he offered Fl a billion dollars to install high speed rail

    Prick Scott, the king of Medicare Fraud, turned it down

  20. Biden was a president for ALL American’s not just blue states. He didn’t call the people who voted for someone else ‘vermin’ and he didn’t treat them any less. Despite a vicious hatred for him, his administration still reached out to provide support to red states and counties.

    I don’t know how anyone can look at how disgustingly hateful and petty Republican’s are and think they’re on the right side of history or love their country.

  21. Kerr County declined the money because they didn’t want to be open-minded to the libs trying to help a conservative county.

    I guess they sure showed those Democrats the meaning of closed-minded.

    They are willing to kill over 105 with 25% being little girls under 10 and with a possibly 170 more deaths in people missing rather than excepting life saving warning systems.

    It’s amazing how often open-minded doesn’t mean empty headed, but close minded most often does.

    Thoughts and prayers will not bring back those who died from what should’ve been a preventable occurrence.

  22. “We won’t accept money from communists!”

    And then..
    “While the county ultimately kept the funds, they allocated the majority, about $8 million, to sheriff’s department upgrades and public employee stipends.”

    I don’t know what kind of stipends they mean, and I generally support public employees. But, ummm, is giving money to public employees somehow less communist than buying the public a warning system?

    This is sad. I don’t know if it would have made a difference but damn. Wtf.

  23. Joe Biden was a President for all Americans, and you can tell how fucking stupid some people are when they couldn’t see that, because they thought it was Socialism or Communism.

  24. Killing your children to own the libs. It’s not even a little bit rational.

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