Biden Fails The Victims Of Hawaii Wildfires

The Biden administration has announced that they're gonna do what sounds like the bare minimum to help victims in Maui after the recent wildfires with the government offering $700 to victims per household. Victims are now telling their stories about how they've waited for days and for help to arrive with provisions running out. Now a federal government that almost seems angry about having to help. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.

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The Biden administration has announced that they're gonna do what sounds like the bare minimum to help victims in Maui after the recent wildfires with the government offering $700 to victims per household. Victims are now telling their stories about how they've waited for days and for help to arrive with provisions running out. Now a federal government that almost seems angry about having to help. I've got Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins with me to talk about this. We're gonna follow this story as it goes. It's every day's a new angle on this. What is your take? When I looked at this, I realized that we have a situation to where in the Covid when we had to give people some help, I think it was like $2,800 per household for a couple, and then $1,400 per each dependent. This is far worse.

Right. And you're not talking about spending hundreds of billions of dollars to do it either. We're talking about residents of one area who desperate, who lost everything. I mean, this is not an over exaggeration to say these people lost everything. And to say that the government we're gonna give you a few hundred dollars for your entire household.

Right.

These people, it will be years before they can rebuild homes. I mean, it's absolutely almost disgusting is the word I'd use.

You know, I hate to compare, but we've had to live through so many hurricanes and we have a sense of how bad it is. This is worse. I mean, I've been through the worst hurricanes. You have too. The aftermath is horrible. Where we look around and everything's devastated. But this has a feeling even worse than anything I think we've been through. As I look at this, there was this belief that you hear these people report, there's a belief that surely government is gonna be there to help us. Now that's important because now we're talking about a government story. They're gonna give 'em $700. That $700 won't do anything for these folks. But coming out of, I remember a couple of hurricanes where I'm saying, well, there's gotta be some leadership, and there was a total leadership paralysis.

I see that same thing happening here. Virtually no rehearsed plan. You had this agonizing, slow response. That's how this feels on a federal level. I mean, when they asked Biden, he's under a, he's on the beach. What did he say? No comment.

Yeah. No comment, no comment.

No comment. By that time, I think 90 people had died. No comment. And I think that's what these people have gotta feel some frustration about, man. I'm telling you, you've got these, you've got random chaos. And we've seen it, we have seen that in hurricanes, but I get the sense that this is really worse. This random chaos where there's no housing, there's no food, there's no water, and you're waiting for somebody to show up to help. Right?

You are. And one of the things that makes it so difficult too, is obviously the distance that Hawaii is from the mainland here. And I think that's one of the reasons why Biden's able to say, ah, no comment. Right? Even though it's a United States state, it's far off there in the Pacific. You can't drive through there. You can't see it traveling the country, just like with Puerto Rico, all the hurricanes that have devastated there. You know, the financial crimes that took place. Well, it's kind of way off in the ocean. We don't really pay attention.

To me, that statement is just a metaphor for what these people are facing all the time.