Mitt Romney Has A Message For Tornado Alley

"Moderate" Republican Mitt Romney would like Republicans in red state Tornado Alley places like Oklahoma and Alabama and flood-prone areas like Mississippi to know that if a natural disaster flattens your community, you're on your own.

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.

To recap there, Mittens thinks passing debt to America's kids is a far worse than trying to save them after a natural disaster. If they really need help, the private sector will come through, right? It "makes no sense at all" for the federal government to be in the disaster relief business...but it didn't stop Mitt from taking millions in federal cash when winter storms and flooding hit Massachusetts while he was governor. He took nearly $100 million in FEMA aid during his term and took that aid multiple times, including $70 million plus in 2006. It wasn't immoral then. It made sense then. We had deficits then. But of course we had a Republican president then, too. IOKIYAR.

Now? Sworn to protect and defend the Constitution, including the general welfare and defense of the country? Never heard of it, Mitt says.  Now he's pandering to Republicans who don't live near disaster-prone areas.  Of course, given all the floods, tornadoes, and wildfires in just the first half of 2011, there aren't a whole lot of areas that aren't prone to disasters.

Sure hope you have disaster insurance, America.  President Romney sure doesn't give a damn.