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Originally Posted by PR_Glen
There is very little ANY president can do to fix this situation. It is a natural disaster and it is terrible. blaming one person or anyone is kind of stupid at this point.
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I sort of agree.
However, I think right now our President can be doing so much more. He's signed some papers to allow some aid in, great. However, there is so much more that can be done.
For starters, instead of spending the day on a photo op that won't even involve seeing Houston, why not stay in Washington DC and working with Congress on a massive aid package?
Then he can start moving forward on some more long term things...
- Stop talking about reducing funding for government agencies that can help during natural disasters.
- Stop telling us climate change isn't real.
- Set up some kind of national urban search and rescue teams so thousands of people can independently operate with their own transportation, food, water, etc, so they can operate for a week or so in floods. This would be similar to how California handles fires where local fire departments respond to large fires hundreds of miles away.
All Trump is doing right now is the basics - the bare minimum. He's been in this job eight months now, he is not new to this; He has the vast resources of the entire United States government at his disposal... He needs to gather his staff together and say "What can we do to help the people of Texas AND make a long term change where we can help people during natural disasters for decades to come.