Beck Uses Minot Flooding To Suggest Disaster Victims Don't Need Federal Aid

Glenn Beck has developed something of a phobia about citizens receiving government aid -- and a propensity for overlooking the fact that some of the folks he likes to portray as living in his idealized America are receiving it anyway.

First, it was Wilmington, Ohio, which Beck asserted “hasn’t taken any money from the government” following the closure of the town’s biggest employer. In fact, Wilmington and the county it’s located in received $13 million in stimulus and emergency funds, and was seeking a $1.5 million federal earmark to refurbish the theater from which Beck did his show late last year.

Then, earlier this month, Beck suggested that tornado victims in Joplin, Missouri, had rejected federal aid. In fact , FEMA responded to the disaster immediately, and state officials praised the federal response.

On the June 28 edition of his radio show, Beck suggested that flooding victims in Minot, North Dakota, didn’t need federal aid: “When our town is in trouble like Joplin, will we be strong enough, like Minot, North Dakota, with the floods. There’s no cries for FEMA. Ten thousand people displaced. Where are they? Where are they? They’re with family and friends.”

We’ve been working closely with our state and federal partners since this winter, in anticipation of a busy spring and summer flood season. FEMA currently has a liaison in the Montana emergency operations center, a state liaison team in the Nebraska state emergency operations center to support the state in sheltering support and other requests as it responds to ongoing flooding; and an open field office in Bismarck, N.D., and Pierre, S.D., responding to ongoing and potential flooding. We have also been assisting the state of Wyoming with planning, through a team of liaisons at the state emergency operations center. , FEMA employees were “standing outside restaurants and approaching people in grocery stores Monday, making a concerted effort to see that Ward County residents affected by the Souris River flood get registered for assistance.” Further, Sen. John Hoeven (R-ND) announced on June 26 that the Small Business Administration will also be assisting victims by offering low-interest disaster loans.

If there are “no cries for FEMA” in Minot, as Beck claims, it’s probably because FEMA is already there, and those who need federal aid are in the process of receiving it.

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Herewith I would like to introduce myself. My name is Lana. I received my Masters of Education degree from Wilmington College, Wilmington, Ohio (May 2009). Concurrently, I received my Bachelor of Arts degree with a triple major in Social and Political Science, Spanish Language and Psychology from Wilmington College, in Wilmington, Ohio (May 2010). I also obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree with a double major in Education and Teaching English as a Second Language, and a minor in Teaching Japanese as a Second Language from Kamchatka State Pedagogical University, in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskyi, Russia (evaluated by the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers, AACRAO). In addition to the training listed above, I completed twenty hours of graduate level coursework in Special Education and Social Work at Valdosta State University, in Valdosta, Georgia.

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