The experience of a North Carolina building skills school suggests that big government is not essential when disaster strikes….as long as we do this one thing.
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Natalie Bogwalker, founder of Wild Abundance (r), coordinating efforts to recover from Hurricane … [+] Helene in her town of Barnardsville, NC. Helene was a natural disaster of epic proportions and left many in North Carolina without homes.
(c) 2024, Sarah TewOver the last few heady weeks, many news stories have decried Elon Musk’s efforts as head of the Department of Government Efficiency to tear down the U.S. government. I even saw a story about the proposed dissolution of FEMA, the government agency established to respond to natural disasters.
This proposal faced immediate pushback from Republican lawmakers—likely because deep Red states’ exposure to extreme weather make them prime beneficiaries of federal disaster relief. I initially agreed that killing FEMA was crazy.
