From Mandate for Leadership, aka Project 2025, page 135:
The bloated DHS bureaucracy and budget, along with the wrong priorities,
provide real opportunities for a conservative Administration to cut billions in
spending and limit government’s role in Americans’ lives. These opportunities
include privatizing TSA screening and the Federal Emergency Management
Agency (FEMA) National Flood Insurance Program, reforming FEMA emergency
spending to shift the majority of preparedness and response costs to states and
localities instead of the federal government, eliminating most of DHS’s grant programs,
and removing all unions in the department for national security purposes.
What could possibly go wrong with privatizing FEMA?
Some pretty big news here:
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-east-coast-dockworkers-head-toward-strike-after-deal-deadline-passes-2024-10-01/
https://www.scrippsnews.com/us-news/dockworkers-at-ports-from-maine-to-texas-go-on-strike-a-standoff-risking-new-shortages
“J.P. Morgan estimated that a strike that shuts down East and Gulf coast ports could cost the economy $3.8 billion to $4.5 billion per day, with some of that recovered over time after normal operations resume.”
Project 2025 has lots of “fascinating ideas” on ways they want to control Americans’ private lives:
https://calmatters.org/politics/2024/09/project2025-trump-california-abortion-surveillance/
Project 2025’s proposed federal mandate directly conflicts with the state’s strong protections for patient privacy and could dismantle the legal and ethical foundations that have made California a refuge for those seeking reproductive care.
The blueprint, crafted by Donald Trump allies and leaders in his first administration, clearly targets states with abortion protections like California, seeking the kind of data that could be used to target abortion-seekers or even criminally punish out-of-staters who come to the state for reproductive health services.
“Because liberal states have now become sanctuaries for abortion tourism, [the Department of Health and Human Services] should use every available tool, including the cutting of funds, to ensure that every state reports exactly how many abortions take place within its borders, at what gestational age of the child, for what reason, the mother’s state of residence, and by what method,” reads the chapter on abortion reporting.
Roger Severino, who served as the Department of Health and Human Services’ director of the Office for Civil Rights under Trump, authored Project 2025’s abortion surveillance plan. He is now the vice president of domestic policy at the Heritage Foundation, the conservative think tank behind Project 2025. He declined an interview with CalMatters.
We seemingly have very few female visitors or female economists who care to make comments on this blog. I am assuming Menzie has many sort of “silent female readers”. I am wondering do women also choose to remain silent on this issue, or would any of them like to speak up and say something about how they feel about this invasion on women’s personal decisions, which will happen if donald trump is elected. I say, speak/type now, or live with what happens next. Because Republicans like Steven Kopits who claim thy don’t want “big government” in people’s/women’s lives have a BIIIIIIIG surprise coming for you women who seemingly are non-fazed.
“What could possibly go wrong with privatizing FEMA?”
Slacker/degenerate Moses waving hand frantically and in berserk fashion from the very back corner of the classroom “Professor Chinn!!! Professor Chinn!!!! Me!!! Me!!! Call on me!!!! I think I have rough idea what that looks like!!!!” :
https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/hurricane-katrina-anniversary/heck-job-brownie-where-disgraced-fema-head-now-n400436
Even its friends call it “Brownie”. For some reason, nearly two decades later, the name Brownie still fits the creature perfectly.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4584302/user-clip-heck-job
Whenever you hear/see Brownie pointing an accusatory finger at “big government” or the federal government, always remember, Brownie has three fingers pointing back at himself.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-sep-04-na-brown4-story.html
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/a-headshrinkers-guide-to-the-galaxy/201109/three-fingers-pointing-back-to-you