SHAME ON FEMA! SHAME ON THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT!

The rural Virginia County of Louisa, suffered more than $80 million dollars in damage from the August 23rd, 2011 earthquake. However, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has determined this rare East Coast disaster somehow doesn't qualify the county for assistance.

So Louisa is left to their own devices to come up with ways to raise the needed funds. One idea? A Cut-A-Thon of $10 haircuts. Kicker...a paltry eight million heads would require trimming in order to acquire all of the necessary funds.

Shame on FEMA! Shame on the Federal government for not immediately stepping up to the plate to help its own citizens in Louisa and all the other areas affected by this incident.

The United States thinks nothing of giving away billions and billions of dollars in aid and assistance to Israel, Pakistan (two of our "so called" allies) and a plethora of other nations around the world for any myriad of reasons. Yet, here at home, schools are damaged beyond use, homes are destroyed, lives devastated and the government tells its people go pound sand.

The President and EVERY member of Congress should be ashamed of themselves. How ANY single politician can say they serve the people is beyond me. While State and Federal leaders from both parties in Virginia have stepped up to defend and justify aid for Louisa county, the fact that FEMA still does nothing, indicates they are not speaking or demanding loud enough.

As with Hurricane Katrina, FEMA has shown themselves to be both ineffective and an embarrassment. It is time for the political talking heads to raise a hue and cry, and put the needs of their own citizens above the desires of ungrateful third world nations.