With Dominik Hasek, the puck stops here.

With Harry Truman, the buck stops here.

Trump is the Midas President. Biden is the Lead President.

When Biden touches a buck, there is shrinkage.

Imagine if Trump had withheld FEMA funds.

Bureaucracies are machines for wasting money. But sometimes they amplify money.

The biggest bang for buck ever built by a bureaucracy was Los Alamos. Roosevelt threw bucks at Los Alamos and Los Alamos built bigly bang.

Build bang better.

As a Florida resident and as an American, I believe it is right that each state should take care of themselves first. To do anything else is to admit that the state government and its chief executive is incompetent and thus becomes a vassal of the federal government and its chief executive.

As our system was designed, the individual is responsible to care for his/her own needs until his resources/capabilities are overwhelmed, then the family, etc… then the local government, then the state government, then the federal government. At each level, it is the responsibility of those at that level to plan for and have contingency plans that include partnerships at the same or similar levels (family members, churches/charitable organizations/insurance companies/sister city agreements/state partnerships, etc… ). If responsibly planned and executed at each level, the only time the federal government would be involved is in the case of a catastrophic, once in a lifetime event.

I understood this in the aftermath of Katrina and I implemented it during the aftermath of Michael. I had purchased sufficient insurance from a top quality insurer (USAA) decades before the Hurricane and I had established contingency plans and partnerships at the individual, family, community levels ahead of time. In the immediate aftermath of the Hurricane, I implemented the required plans, (from a safe location during the Hurricane and locally in the immediate aftermath). My son-in-law and I loaded up supplies and equipment in his 4WD truck and made our way back into Panama City traveling over back roads and cutting a path through downed trees with chainsaws where necessary. We made it to our home, where my daughter, her husband, his twin sister and all their kids had hunkered down during the storm with battery operated power tools in case they needed to cut their way out of a home that may trap them if it didn’t withstand the weather (it stood, while many surrounding it didn’t). We immediately began assessing the neighborhood needs and meeting the most pressing with the help of family members in my home. We established a information hub and distribution center for resources in our home and once we had that established, I delegated to my adult family members and some trustworthy people in the neighborhood some of the more pressing issues they could perform, while continuing on to other family members of the son-in-law who came with me (almost a dozen siblings and his parents lived here). After delivering the equipment and supplies, we returned to my house and continued to fortify our positions in begin the recovery efforts while my son-in-law with the truck returned to his wife and children and served as an offsite coordination link.

Our neighborhood did fine, with the exception of a of hyper-liberal member that didn’t want to do anything but complain about the slowness of the government response. We didn’t have any problems with looting as we quickly posted signs stating that this neighborhood was under the protection of many well trained gun owners and looters would do so at their own risk. Of course the state government wisely and quickly declared an immediate and temporary constitutional carry rule (no need for any permits and everybody was free to carry weapons openly or concealed) and announced it publicly.

We have taken years to fully recover from the devastation of the Cat 5 hurricane, but we didn’t need (or want for the most part) the federal government’s interference.