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Gary Johnson Would Liberalize Immigration and Drug Laws; But Not Eliminate FEMA - Hit & Run : Reason.com

http://reason.com/blog/2012/10/30/gary-johnson-says-he-would-liberalize-im#comment

...” Johnson did not touch on Hurricane Sandy during his
speech, but it did impact his day as he was late for his
event in Boise that afternoon. In a scrum with reporters
after the event Johnson said that he thinks the Federal
Emergency Management Agency is an appropriate function
for the federal government.
“I do see a role. The whole notion that we do have
difficulties. I just want to do all of this in the context of
not spending more money than we’re taking in,” he said.
“I think (disaster relief) may come under the basic notion
of the government protecting us. There are these natural
catastrophies that without the federal government, states
aren’t as well equipped,” Johnson said, pointing to
government assistance New Mexico received in response
to the Cerro Grande Fire in 2000. Johnson did note,
however, that the National Park Service started that same
fire as a controlled burn.
“It was federally caused, it was federally lit,” he said."....

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