Subj : Re: Good State of FEMA article
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Nick
Date : Wed Sep 07 2005 15:18:04

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

John I wrote:

> Here is a http://www.indyweek.com/durham/2004-09-22/cover.html good
> story on the state of FEMA in 2004 and the election implications of
> the Bush administration's response to the 2004 Florida hurricane
> season.  
> 
> 'Fridays don't get much busier than this. It's the morning of Sept.
> 3, and Federal Emergency Management Agency headquarters in
> Washington, D.C., is running at a full clip, having mobilized a cadre
> of disaster-response specialists in its National Emergency Operations
> Center the day before. "This is our 'war room,'" a FEMA employee
> explains. 
> 
> "Right now we're in 24-hours-a-day activation," he says. "It's a
> double- whammy." Indeed, the agency is still busy helping Florida
> recover from Hurricane Charley's punishing winds and rain when
> satellite images show that an even greater storm, Hurricane Frances,
> will soon make landfall. It appears so threatening that most of
> FEMA's personnel on the ground, along with 2.5 million Floridians,
> have evacuated from the storm's projected path. ' 
> 
> 
> '"They're doing a good job," one former FEMA executive says of the
> Bush administration's response efforts. "And the reason why they're
> doing that job is because it's so close to the election, and they
> can't fuck it up, otherwise they lose Florida--and if they lose
> Florida, they might lose the election."'
>
<snip> 
> 
> Too bad it's not an election year.


There you go with no facts again.
Some guy saying that they are doing a good job just because it is an 
election year doesn't make it true.  Watch me say something: John is a 
closet neo-conservative.  OMG it's right there in black and white.  It 
must be true!!!

I was looking back at http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/ (there is a 
place on the bottom of the page where you can see storms by year)
Clinton never really had much in the way of hurricane disasters to test 
how FEMA would react when he was president so it is difficult to predict 
exactly how things would have turned out.

If you want to see an article about stupid things FEMA is doing look at 
this one: http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_3004197

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