MSNBC is reporting, "Ron Paul: No FEMA response necessary":

"We should be like 1900; we should be like 1940, 1950, 1960," Paul said. "I live on the Gulf Coast; we deal with hurricanes all the time. Galveston is in my district.

"There's no magic about FEMA. They're a great contribution to deficit financing and quite frankly they don't have a penny in the bank. We should be coordinated but coordinated voluntarily with the states," Paul told NBC News. "A state can decide. We don't need somebody in Washington.

Editor's note - This is the Ron Paul we love here at Libertarian Republican: The hardline free market/limited government side. (Not the far-out foreign policy stuff.)