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Originally Posted by mburbank
What will the process be, exactly, and who will oversee it? What criteria will be used to determine at what point an expense becomes reimbursable. It seems to me every able bodied person who pulled someone out of the water or put someone up or drove someone someone out of town could arguably be doing what the government ought to have done.
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I'm going to go ahead and guess that since FEMA is giving out the money, they will be regulating it. As far as everybody doing the work of government, I'm assuming their will again be a qualification threshold that would would have to meet (check out the FEMA website, maybe there's an appication posted?).
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Is this a one time deal, or i it from now on? Are we deputizing faith based organizations as an arm of government, who can count on getting paid back whenever they extend themselves? I am perfectly comfortable with my tax dollars going to FEMA, and even if I'm not, sometimes your taxes go to government programs you don't like. I'm also grateful to all the faith based organizations that have and are shouldering a massive load, but I'm not comfortable with this becoming a back door through which to legitamize more federal funds for religions.
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I suppose the argument over precedent is a good one, but it has always been an objective of this president to push a "faith based" agenda, and this seems like the prime place to put it in practice.
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