{"id":134493,"date":"2017-08-31T16:49:45","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T22:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=134493"},"modified":"2017-08-31T22:48:56","modified_gmt":"2017-09-01T04:48:56","slug":"great-job-bad-cant-afford-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/31\/great-job-bad-cant-afford-future.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Great job! Too bad we can&#8217;t afford you in the future!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump seems very pleased with various disaster recovery and planning programs in the federal government &#8212; right now, while the spotlight is on and he&#8217;s standing in front of cameras &#8220;responding&#8221; to the Harvey disaster.<\/p>\n<p>But his budget proposals are quite clear that the currently level of disaster planning, resilience, and recovery are unaffordable for the future. They cost money, which must be given back to businesses and wealthy people &#8230; who I am sure will donate all of it back when future disasters occur.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p><a style=\"display: inline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/as-agencies-respond-to-storm-some-face-cuts-under-trump-budget-proposal\/2017\/08\/29\/0fbbd6ca-8cc8-11e7-84c0-02cc069f2c37_story.html?utm_term=.bc542dc9f7fd\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 650px;\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/thecck8mVPlQihwM5uSvcvfBj9-75ye11dadwaPqBlFEo8d_LKxujKf34gufprF0SZTxSWYwffcyzi1py1wfKf1pkoOtPaTA0QR1GCLpLHWoByQzKCKvEk4To5zaNnR7OYXnH2Oad1h-Zg5TzFQ5trpc1rY2p-j0WVRgIZwFceGPvg18JYsQo66-u5YsRiHRTbzXug=w506-h910\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/as-agencies-respond-to-storm-some-face-cuts-under-trump-budget-proposal\/2017\/08\/29\/0fbbd6ca-8cc8-11e7-84c0-02cc069f2c37_story.html?utm_term=.bc542dc9f7fd\">Trump would slash disaster funding to the very agencies he\u2019s praising for Harvey response<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nProposed budget cuts would slash federal money for some state and local preparedness efforts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/PWq1m5kwuyZ\">View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump seems very pleased with various disaster recovery and planning programs in the federal government &#8212; right now, while the spotlight is on and he&#8217;s standing in front of cameras &#8220;responding&#8221; to the Harvey disaster. But his budget proposals are quite clear that the currently level of disaster planning, resilience, and recovery are unaffordable &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/31\/great-job-bad-cant-afford-future.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;Great job! Too bad we can&#8217;t afford you in the future!&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,748,376,1071],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-weather-and-climate-change","category-taxing-spending","category-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/unnamed-11-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":30952,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/30\/romney-changes-his-position-on-fema-and-disaster-recovery.html","url_meta":{"origin":134493,"position":0},"title":"Romney changes his position on FEMA and disaster recovery","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 30-Oct-12 11:21am","format":false,"excerpt":"In other news, water is\u00a0wet, and Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead. 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