starstruckknight 01:40:28 PM May 17 2008

The federal disaster program is a joke in the way it is operated. People in areas where it snows, are usually prepared for the typicle snow they get. A couple inches more or less does not constitute a disaster such as this "relief" was supposed to be. But yet when a true disaster strikes, they purchase billions of dollars worth of trailers which still sit rotting away unoccupied and claim red tape is the hold up, "NewOrleans" or tell helping volunteers they are unwanted. "Twin towers" And now they want to claim a national fiancial disaster for those people who bought what they could not afford, ignoring the fact that national debt is already in the deepest red ink ever. What's the plan? Rob the Social Security system of what little you haven't already?

rycrowell 12:07:01 PM May 17 2008

Good, thats how its supposed to be,handled on a local level. The federal government should only provide national defense.

hcrawdad 08:59:10 AM May 17 2008

this is great, the first to tell the feds to keep out i wish that more people would do thisthe fed's like to keep everyone in debit to them so that they can control us, screw them let us take care of us on a local level like it should be.
we may be slaves but we are able to live without big brother.

tilllarsen 05:51:29 AM May 17 2008

Hear this, hear that, there is more to this than presented in this article! Politics aside, has this country forgot that it is the constituents of the local community that should decide! More power to them for making up their own mind, at least according to their elected official!

dldomenique 03:52:30 AM May 17 2008

...and "pocollins" is obvious ******* republican.

pocollins 03:33:18 AM May 17 2008

"Township Trustee Steve Borowski disagrees with the decision, saying help from the federal government shouldn't be turned down."

Probably a Democrat. No government giveaway of taxpayer money is ever a bad thing. That may be why we are in the fiscal condition we are in today - government never suspends a handout program whether it works or not - the press just keep spinning the checks out. Have you gotten your election year handout stimulus check?