The government response to Hurricane Helene has been nothing short of horrific. As RedState has been covering, everything that should be functioning normally to help the American people in terms of rescue efforts and assistance has been a colossal failure due to our inept and corrupt government.

Amid all of this failure of government has been an incredible display from private citizens who are lining up to help those in trouble in the affected areas. They're willing to put their time, money, resources, and skills at the disposal of those in need. It truly is a stunning display of humanity.

(READ: The Government's Failure to Help After Helene Goes Far Beyond What the Media Is Willing to Tell You)

But among all of this are reports that there are government officials attempting to halt the people's efforts in various ways. They threaten to arrest helicopter pilots who are rescuing the stranded. Reports that FEMA has told people to stop giving supplies out privately and direct them to FEMA camps have been made.

As former Army Ranger and MMA fighter Tim Kennedy told a local news agency, the government is actively hampering attempts to help. //

A Man Of Memes @RickyDoggin
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She’s based. She’s 100% correct and you can’t deny it or bust her argument.

Let’s change the status quo. The quickest way to change it is to vote for the person that both sides hate…. Hmmmm, I wonder who that is?

6:25 PM · Oct 3, 2024

Summarized, her point is this.

If the media were to begin accurately reporting on the civilian effort to help the people and how successful it's been, operating on a shoestring budget with supplies gathered here and there, and all without government assistance, then you'd likely start wondering what the point of the government is.

The government wants you to believe that without it, you're entirely vulnerable and at the mercy of everything around you. It wants you to believe that you need it for your protection and survival. To be sure, there are elements of it that should exist for that very reason. Police forces and the military are necessary to maintain safety from both domestic and foreign threats.

However, it's pretty clear that the extraordinary amount of taxpayer dollars that we pay to it in order to keep the country functioning as it should are being wasted continuously. Even with all the billions and billions of dollars it takes from us, it can't seem to prioritize it well enough to be utilized properly. You start to realize you don't need the government as much as you think you do, and before long, you're enthusiastic about shrinking it, giving it less of your money, and reducing the number of people who work there.

This is a nightmare scenario for the government. If you know your own power, it highlights the weakness of the government //

If anything, Helene is a wake-up call. It's a full-on display of the power of the people, and a perfect example of how government should always be small and minimally funded based on basic need. //

Xanthro
33 minutes ago
All this failure is because of the current Administration. CERT (Community Emergency Response Team) is actually part of FEMA and we have been part of search and rescue for years. We are the ones who often train others, as we are volunteers and usually have decades of experience.
When we showed up at a disaster, we often even took lead, because we were there first. CERT is sometimes called the Zero Responders, because we are in the community, we don't need to travel to it.
I noticed a massive change with the snowstorms the San Bernardino Mountains. People were trapped for days and we were not allowed up the mountain, and those who came down the mountain were not allowed back up. People were tricked into coming down the mountain in refill medications and were arrested to prevent them from going back up, all the while their family members died.
While have no direct knowledge of the Maui, it screams the same incompetence.
Nowwe are once again prevent from rescuing people. Eastern Tennessee and Western North Carolina are insanely impacted. FEMA is doing everything they can to thwart rescue and aid.
I'll admit, FEMA was pretty shoddy at time pre-Katrina, but after that they stepped up their game, but all that improvement is gone.
FEMA is the problem, not the solution. //

C. S. P. Schofield
an hour ago
The Progressive Establishment firmly believes in the wonderfullness of Central Planning. They believe in it the way Medieval Aristocrats believed in the Divine Right of Kings. No matter how often it falls down, it is their reason for existing in the first place. And, to be fair (and it hurts to be fair to these weasels) Central Planning has had its victories. The spread of water and sewage systems was planned that way. Such networks are hard to start as private enterprise because the value they impart is diffuse and therefore hard to charge for up front. But the Progressives think EVERYTHING should be centrally planned and controled, and that simply doesn’t work.

The core idea behind our Constitution and Bill of Rights was that government should be a service organization, limited in authority. It was a radical idea in 1789 and 1791 (when the Constitution and Bill of Rights were ratified, respectively), and it has REMAINED a radical idea ever since. Elites do not like the idea of limited government. They do not like the idea that the peasants (that’s us) get to tell them to go climb a tree. So they try to undermine the Constitution every chance they get.