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"The Biden-Harris administration took more than a billion tax dollars that had been allocated to FEMA for disaster relief and used it to house illegal aliens. Now, they've abandoned American hurricane victims in North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, and Tennessee." -- Rep. Jim Jordan

If Joe and Kamala's chaotic leadership the past three and a-half years isn't irrefutable evidence of their thoroughly screwed-up capabilities as President and Vice President, now they have completely botched the government's response to the disaster inflicted by hurricane Helene.

Prompting a person to ask, is there anything this Washington millstone can do right? If so, what is it?

From a jumbled economy, to unsustainable indebtedness, disastrous open borders policies, haphazard foreign war entanglements, allowing Chinese spy balloons to fly across the country, Joe and son Hunter's shady business and tax debacles and now a confused response to the unprecedented national emergency caused by destruction from the hurricane, the list continues to grow each passing day as the Biden-Harris team tells us what a great job their doing.

Presently, another catastrophic hurricane is approaching Florida and Kamala seems completely clueless about what to do.

When asked on ABC News daytime talk show "The View," Oct. 8, 2024, "If anything, would you have done something differently than President Biden during the past four years?"

Harris responded, "There is not a thing that comes to mind."

Good grief, if Joe and Kam's efforts weren't so pathetic, it'd be comical. No one could naturally be this fouled-up without really working at it!

In fairness, it probably wouldn't be right to lay the entire blame on Joe, although he is the President, and the buck is supposed to stop with him.

There are at least two substantial arguments in his defense — He probably really doesn't know its hurricane season or has any idea of the value of a buck.

Which might help to explain why the country is now about 35 trillion bucks in the hole, and why there are not enough bucks to go around. Apparently, not enough to help the folks reeling from the hurricane.

Sure, Kamala informed hurricane victims they could get up to $750 in federal assistance to buy groceries, but that's about it. Of course, $750 for groceries doesn't go as far as it used to a few years ago. But maybe, Joe and Kamala haven't been to Albertson's lately.

That's assuming the $750 isn't whittled down to a lesser amount.

Allegedly, remaining Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) funds have already been nearly depleted helping illegal migrants deal with their daily lives.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told us last month FEMA didn't have sufficient money to get through this year's storms.

As usual, someone is probably lying or not telling the whole story, other than the fact the money seems to have run out, transferred to another department of government or mysteriously disappeared.

Adding to the dilemma, we've given the Ukrainians over a hundred billion dollars in supporting their struggles with Russia. It's the least we could do.

Heck, each time the president of Ukraine visits Washington, Joe hands him a check for another billion, two, three or six. No big deal. We'll make it back in Kam's newly proposed "Tax the rich" and "Pay your fair share" scam.

Which always seems to fall back on everyone else. That's our problem, not Joe or Kamala's. They have other fish to fry — like convincing us why we should vote Kamala for President, regardless of her total incompetency as Vice President.

Her lack of talent and ingenuity makes Joe seem like a political superstar, despite the fact his own party yanked him from the ticket before the voters could.

It's getting to be a tough sell. I don't imagine Kam's winning too many voters in the five or six states devastated by the hurricane. Especially, considering FEMA's sporadic appearance in the area.

Often the case in similar disaster situations, it's ordinary people, community citizens, churches, charitable organizations, local law enforcement, first responders and businesses who turn out to help each other. While government assistance is appreciated, the bulk of the cleanup and recovery is performed by a caring and sympathetic public.

Not government representatives. Particularly from a national government whose management skills and financial proficiencies are sorely lacking. For the simple reason government is not designed to earn and make money. With the exception of fees and tariffs, it exists by receiving and spending taxes paid by private industry and the general public.

Sadly, even that is not enough to keep pace with Congress' addiction to deficit spending.

Plus, Washington and the media are more concerned with preventing Trump from being reelected than narrating the tragedies and needs of storm victims.

Don't think so? Just turn on the TV and see how much time is devoted to castigating Trump, compared to the few minutes spent reporting on the hurricane.

This year's Presidential Election is a referendum on the two main contenders; a clear choice if we wish to continue down the slippery slope of socialism — advocated by a career government employee whose background is predicated upon the principles of the ideology — or a New York City businessman who employs workers, pays taxes, signs payroll checks, builds things in his community while at the same time under constant legal assault from Democrats, managed to escape at least two assassination attempts and has the moxie to recently return to the location where he was shot and wounded in July.

All we need to figure out which one is more qualified for the job is to look at who arrived first on scene after the hurricane. Trump was there two days later bringing aid and assistance. Joe and Kamala took nearly a week to awkwardly explain why the government was dragging its feet.

The $750 FEMA checks must still be in the mail. Unless they've been rerouted to Ukraine's zip code.

Mike Bibb

Safford, AZ