Privatizing FEMA? Seriously?

I am amazed at the fact that is no one is raising the issue after Hurricane Sandy, that one of the presidential candidates holds the strong opinion of wanting to stop the funding to FEMA and give it to the states, or even more drastically if possible privatize an emergency response group so that the people in charge of it will have more incentive to do a good job so they can make money off the disaster? Number one, if FEMA funding is cut off and it is up to the states, how is New York,  Louisiana, and Florida going to deal with hurricanes, or California, Colorado, and other states supposed to deal with earthquakes/fires while a good chunk of their state is destroyed, inaccessible, on fire, under water, or without power. Number two, this ridiculous ideology that anything that comes out of Washington DC is an unnecessary tax or wasteful spending, or that states can do EVERYTHING better than the federal government who only gets in the way, is literally going to get more people killed than would normally happen during a natural disaster. And three, honestly, privatizing FEMA so people will have incentive to benefit from natural disasters, is such a ludicrous philosophy it could only come from a businessman who knows too well about profiting off of the losses of other people. Mitt Romney used to only want to benefit from the figurative, but now the literal, crumbling of a company, and if for some odd reason you’re upset that your tax money is supporting FEMA and the east coast right now, don’t forget about the two terrible California fires that happened in our lifetime alone, and the supposed horrible earthquake that California is overdue to receive, and that you’ll be wondering how much and where help is coming from. When did helping people out who needed it become an un-American idea? 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqXk5XxHKx8

That question should lead me into my next post on Obamacare: Fascism? Socialism? Communism? Which should lead me into the next one after that quite nicely: What ultimately happens when you call anyone you disagree with Hitler?