Target 29 of 31
Today’s target
ABOLISHFEMA
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Relief that arrives after the disaster, and pays you to rebuild in the flood zone.
Official story
What they claim to do
Helps people before, during and after disasters through preparedness, response and recovery.
Ground truth
What they actually do
Its responses to Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and Hurricane Maria in 2017 drew bipartisan criticism. Its National Flood Insurance Program has long paid for repeated rebuilding in the same flood-prone places and has borrowed billions of dollars from the Treasury.
The libertarian case
Local responders, neighbors, charities and private logistics usually reach victims first. Subsidized flood insurance pays people to rebuild in harm’s way again and again. Price disaster risk honestly, empower local response, and abolish FEMA.
Spread the word
Post on X
Facebook