Romney’s quote, “Federal funding for disaster relief is “immoral,” and is something that should be left up to the states or, “even better,” the private sector.”

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Daily Kos: Romney on Eliminating FEMA: “Absolutely!”

As Hurricane Sandy prepares to ravage the East Coast and beyond, let us pause and be thankful that Mitt Romney is not our current president. For Romney, when asked by CNN’s John King about what he …

  • http://www.facebook.com/ron.johnson.1428 Ron Johnson

    you’re a dangerous liberal. misleading and misquoting for your own agenda…shame, shame….here is the actual transcript of what romney said at the June 13, 2011 GOP debate. While the moderator steered Romney to disaster relief, the governor, after answering him, veered off to speak about the deficit…when the moderator tried to get Romney back on track, Romney instead finished his sentence ABOUT THE DEFICIT! He was not calling disaster relief immoral, but leaving the next generation with debt… take a look…. KING: What else, Governor Romney? You’ve been a chief executive of a state. I was just in Joplin, Missouri. I’ve been in Mississippi and Louisiana and Tennessee and other communities dealing with whether it’s the tornadoes, the flooding, and worse. FEMA is about to run out of money, and there are some people who say do it on a case-by-case basis and some people who say, you know, maybe we’re learning a lesson here that the states should take on more of this role. How do you deal with something like that?ROMNEY: Absolutely. Every time you have an occasion to take something from the federal government and send it back to the states, that’s the right direction. And if you can go even further and send it back to the private sector, that’s even better. Instead of thinking in the federal budget, what we should cut — we should ask ourselves the opposite question. What should we keep? We should take all of what we’re doing at the federal level and say, what are the things we’re doing that we don’t have to do? And those things we’ve got to stop doing, because we’re borrowing $1.6 trillion more this year than we’re taking in. We cannot…KING: Including disaster relief, though? ROMNEY: We cannot — we cannot afford to do those things without jeopardizing the future for our kids. It is simply immoral, in my view, for us to continue to rack up larger and larger debts and pass them on to our kids, knowing full well that we’ll all be dead and gone before it’s paid off. It makes no sense at all.