If the nation is woefully unprepared to deal with climate disasters such as floods, hurricanes, wildfires, and droughts, despite the hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars that have been pledged to shore up the nation’s infrastructure problems, it is because The Politicians in charge have failed us.
The devastation wrought by Hurricane Helene makes this failure by the government to put the needs of the American people first painfully evident. Entire towns are under water. Roadways have collapsed or are otherwise impassable. Potable water is scarce. More than 1.5 million households are still without power.
While the politicians play partisan games with our tax dollars, the nation and the figurative foundations of our freedoms—continues to be neglected and deprioritized in favor of grandstanding,
Clearly, our national priorities need to be re-examined.