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We Need a Rainy Day Fund

BY JOHN FEEHERY
Reprinted from TheFeeheryTheory.com

What happened in Moore, Oklahoma was terrible, just terrible. What will likely happen in Washington as a response will be just as bad, in its own way.

The tornado that tore through the Oklahoma City suburb devastated that little community, killed small children, destroyed a school, and otherwise reaked havoc on a bunch of Americans.

We have seen this before.

Tornadoes have ravaged small towns in Missouri and Alabama, and a hurricane destroyed a large swath of New Jersey and devastated a New York suburb.

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Oklahoma City…Fifteen Years Later

BY MICKEY EDWARDS
 first published on Atlantic.com

 Fifteen years have passed since Timothy McVeigh’s bomb ripped the heart out of my hometown.  Fifteen years since people I knew had their lives cut short by violence planned and executed here in our land by one of our neighbors.  This is one pain that does not diminish over time.

I had represented Oklahoma City in Congress for 16 years.  On the day Timothy McVeigh’s bomb exploded outside a courthouse named for a federal judge I had known, I was far from my home, teaching at Harvard.  I was about to enter a classroom for a 10 o’clock class when I learned of what had happened.  The news was numbing.  Not only was this my home, these people were my friends; my daughter still lived there, my grandchildren lived there.  What was happening?  Who had done this?  Who was safe?

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