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s you are i'm sure by now well-aware
massive toward nato struck oklahoma yesterday
consider to be from what i understand
perhaps the
biggest and most powerful tornado that hit the united states
in our recorded history
twenty four people died including nine children
uh... the devastation it was amazing the images of this tornado just
trucking
in many respects
uh... there is any toward a don't watch
i know we have a listener is uh... who listen to the program
in north texas and central texas there is a tornado watch
stop listening to the program
tune into your local into use and
hit the word
please stay safe
there are
the people receiving criticism
i know on twitter yesterday foreign anyway
raising the issue of
of politics
at a time like this but the fact of the matter is is the moment that that
tornado
is gone
the moment that the search and rescue
turns to
searching recover
the question becomes
who will help but these people
and yes the red cross is receiving donations in yes there are other places
to donate
but the reality is that only the federal government
has the capacity
to help when you have the aid
catastrophe like this
in any meaningful way
in any long-term weight to rebuild a about lives
of these people
and selling it necessarily becomes political at that moment
not small bore politics in terms of who's going to get elected in this net
we're talking about politics in terms of the way it affects policy
and in the wake of uh... this tornado
you have
oklahoma senator
tom coburn
says that he will seek aid
federal aid for victims of this tornado
but only if the cost of this aid is offset by budget cuts somewhere else
in our federal government
i guess it tom coburn in needs as some measure of
respect for maintaining consistency
but consistency is the hob goblin of little minds
particularly when it means
that you are going to either
provide del aid from tom coburn sp respective
to these people whose lives have been devastated
or you're going to necessarily
hurt other people
that is the policy choice that he is offering
james inhofe
the other oklahoma senator
who join tom coburn in voting against the aid
for hurricane sandy relief
has told
msnbc
that this situation is totally different
that that aid was poor clayton
at the aid that he will request or abroad for in the case of his own
constituents
is going to be totally different
there'll be no pork in that
it'll just be to rebuild people's lives
i don't know which one of the senators
presents a more despicable attitude
in both instances
this is not political this is simply policy oriented
in both in both situations
their perspective is completely warped
an indicative of
the real problem that people with this ideology have
when it comes to acknowledging that the federal government
has an important role to play in people's lives
not just in there and everyday lives but also in those
moments where tragedy strikes
but the fact of the matter is is a tragedy strikes americans
different americans at all times
whether they have become bankrupt because of medical bills whether they
have uh... uh...
lost her job because they're corporation is outsourcing
whether they're being shot
buy guns
whether they are
unable to get medical care because of where they live
there are unable to reach their potential because
their mired in poverty
because their kids and their pay their family doesn't have enough money to feed
them
it doesn't happen to every american at all times but it at one time at any time
i should say
americans are suffering
because of choice is not that they made
whether those uh...
does disasters are on an act that cannot or just simply can't find
to their own home
and their own lives
and
these two senators
our stock in an ideology
and in a political reality that they have the in many respects created for
themselves
that forces them to ignore that reality
so it's perfectly warranted
to disabuse them
of that idea in a point out
the fallacy in that position
there's nothing else that
i can do sitting here in new york
sort of donating a couple of dollars to the red cross
other than to say that that ideology
he is
is demented
cut