How Much Are You Willing To Pay To Put That Fire Out?

Freshman Rep. Trey Radel (R-FL) today:

HOST: Will you in favor of the $61 billion Sandy aid bill today?

RADEL: Yes, I will. This is the national flood insurance program, it is something promised by the federal government and we need to release those funds to the people that are suffering in the northeast. … But ultimately, what we need to be doing, at the federal level, is weaning people off the federal government and allowing this not to just be left up to the states, but ultimately up to the private sector.

HOST: So you want to pass FEMA off to the private sector? You don’t think the government should be involved in federal relief at all?

RADEL: It should in some areas, but this is a case of insurance, just like in Florida, where you even have state-run programs that are out of control such as citizens where again, I’m sure you’ve covered many times, it ends up where middle class families end up paying for insurance for multimillionaires to have their homes on the beaches. It’s just not fair. We need to allow it to be in the private sector.

See, this is why Republicans should be disqualified from serving in government.  They view it only as a means to get rich or get profit for their supporters in big business.  They literally want to leave you on your own and at the mercy of for-profit corporations when you've just lost your house and everything you own.

Somebody needs to get this clown a copy of the constitution.  First sentence: We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Republicans only promote the general welfare of themselves and their corporate backers and at the expense of the citizens of this country. They don't believe in government of the people, by the people, and for the people and therefore it's beyond dangerous to let them participate in it.