Are the fat ladies singing in Holland?

It's official....officials in the Holland area have floated (no pun intended) the idea of grovelling in front of Washington/FEMobamA for help with their little bit of water...WHY? Let's answer the question from an individual's point of view...

The city of Holland is like a homeowner...their basement got wet (very wet), as did their car. Now, if this homeowner was intelligent and thoughtful, they either bought flood insurance if availiable, have an emergency savings account, or are allowed lines of credit. The logical course of action would be to remove everything from harms way (enlisting the assistance of neighbors to whom this individual would return future help if anything happened to them) and then pull in repair funds from insurance, savings, and/or by taking out a loan. What, then, is the FEMA-equivalent in this metaphor? God.

I've always been raised on the idea that "God helps those who help themselves" and it fits: the city of Holland psuedo-conservatives wish to pray to FEMA/Obama for intervention. If an individual did this, they would sit on the entry floor's comfiest couch and pray that God would make everything right downstairs...would he? Probably not. Will FEMA? Probably not.

God could get rid of your basement's problem by burning your house down (it would be fittingly ironic)...FEMA will make everything right by moving thousands out of their houses and into "temporary" trailers while they paid thousands to go to lunch, break things, and stand around watching city employees do work...oh, and they would put signs in that say "This assistance brought to you by President Barack Obama, our lord and savior."

According to the metaphor of the homeowner (within which is my advice to individuals with basements flooded: buck up and do it yourself), the course of action for Holland is simple: enlist help from surrounding counties based on a gentlemens' agreement of an 'owed favor,' pull out some loans, draw off your savings (which you should have, always), and work the union guys beyond union limits paying time-and-a-half...after the job is done, ensure that future heavy rainfalls will be efficiently drained into the Big Water right next door.

We have local governments for a reason...as far as I know, the local governments are still standing so there is no need for FEMA mobile bases...buck up and do it yourself!