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Originally Posted by ice4277
I think it would help short-term, but where would all the long-term assistance come from? I would think the recovery would take much more money than one state could hope to provide. Also, poorer states such as Mississippi could more easily be overwhelmed by the task. I agree that local response, in an ideal world, could have been better, but I think there would still be a number of different problems that would arise.
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Perhaps the middle ground would be the feds distributing the wealth but it is the states that control, manage and allocate. For example, a major hospital ship should be availabe to any coastal state (and under the jurisdiction of the state) within 12 hours - not from a centralized port far away.