You have a responsibility to protect yourself.
FEMA
I grew up on the Mississippi river. I knew almost every person in the entire community. I was related to many of them. If I walked down the street today in the town, I wouldn't make it 5 feet without people stopping me to ask about my parents or myself. I love this area, and some day I will move back, living on the river was a joy.
Every year since we had recorded history of the area, there has been a flood. We all knew it would flood, the question was "How high?" Every few years it would reach inside of the houses, which were slightly raised up off the ground. Sometimes it would entirely engulf the first floor of every house in the area. FEMA came in every year, and gave anyone who didn't have insurance money live off of for months, and big checks to fix the houses. Tens of thousands of dollars. Much of this work was done on the cheap and the rest of the money was just spent. Without exaggerating, I can say that thousands of dollars from any of the rebuilds went to drugs and alcohol. Lots of fraud went largely ignored.
Finally, after 20-30 years of this, FEMA gave them all extra money (20k+ each) to raise their houses up past the 100 year historical high flood level. I worked on the crew that raised all the houses. I rewired houses that had flooded, replaced drywall, built porches - you name it. The money from FEMA helped irresponsible people to rebuild. They got the same help or better than people who payed for insurance every year. These weren't people who couldn't find the money to pay insurance on their property, they were people who would rather spend that money on other things. While rebuilding the houses, we weren't putting them back to original condition. We were rebuilding them much nicer each time. They went from being simply 1-2 story homes to being 2-3 story brand new homes with sprawling porches and decks.
If FEMA wasn't there to help them when this happened, how would their lives have changed? They would of bought insurance. If they didn't buy insurance they wouldn't of gotten their houses redone when they flooded and would of had to sell them and move. Without government intervention the people who were too irresponsible to carry insurance would of had to move. Our government was artificially keeping these people here by their actions. That market would of fixed the situation.
I doubt FEMA was meant to be a free insurance company for people who didn't feel like paying for insurance. Every bit of help that someone gets for 'free' is being payed for by other tax payers. It isn't that those tax payers don't want to help their fellow many, or that they want all government help to stop. It is that they see every dollar spent on something as money that is being taken from them or money we have to pay back some day that we are borrowing.
Do you like hearing how much money was spent in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Pakistan, Bosnia, Somalia, ect ect? Do you like hearing about $10,000 shovels? Should Obama have spent so much money going to India?. I know it wasn't 200 million a day, but 200 million total is probably closer. That is like charging every adult in the country a dollar for our president to go to India, if they all payed taxes. At what point do you realize that the excess of government exists and needs to be fixed? Whether it be war, social programs, or just wet dreams of some politician.
Should the federal government have a plan for taking food to people in the Alaskan wilderness if there is a blizzard?
No, don't live in the Alaskan wilderness or have supplies to live through the weather there. I am guessing most of them have a supply of non perishable food if they live in the middle of nowhere.
Should the federal government rebuild homes in the flood plain or on the ocean for people without insurance?
No, those people should have insurance, live somewhere else, or build a house that can withstand that weather.
Should the federal government give me loans to buy houses I can buy normally? No.
Should the federal government tell me what to eat? No.
Should the federal government tell us what to do with our bodies? No.
NO NO NO NO NO NO. Not only is it wrong, it borders on being evil. People talk about helping the poor by giving them food, money, houses, ect. Then, those same people turn around and say it is awful to lock up wild animals in cages. Do you think a lion would rather risk dying in the grasslands of disease or live a couple years longer in a cage? Well, what is the major difference? If a lion in a cage has no dignity or freedom then how are the poor of this country any different? The cage might not be steel, but they are still being controlled. What our government has done is take away human dignity and replace it with a fat greasy government tit that spews poisoned milk.