Subj : Re: It seems not everyone shares the "Blame Bush All The Way" viewpoint...
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Trouble
Date : Tue Sep 06 2005 12:17:14

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

Nick wrote:

> Ken McElhaney wrote:
 
>> And while the federal response was way too slow and disasters of this
>> size should NOT be handled by FEMA, but rather the US military (which
>> has no buerocracy to get in the way), I do have some questions for
>> the local 'n state authorities, namely;
 
> I disagree.  I think FEMA is the proper place to handle this sort of
> thing but it needs more of a military type heirarchy in which quick
> decisions can be made on the spot without a long approval process.  Of
> course, any decisions made will not look as good a few days later but
> that will happen anyway.

I'm with Nick, FEMA was created for exactly this sort of thing in mind, 
however since 9/11 their focus has been on reorganizing with DHS to cope 
with Terrorism, and a tremendous amount of effort put into continuity of 
government and disaster recovery excercises.

I was grilling with my ex-FEMA buddy this weekend, and of course this 
came up as a topic of conversation. Ordinarily this is exactly what FEMA 
does, and does well.

When he worked for them, his job was to show up at a disaster, and assess 
damage, that assessment let people back in DC know how much money they 
needed to obtain for the people to get rebuilding assistance, and other 
federal money to help them get back on their feet. 

-- 
"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise.
Seek what they sought."
--Basho

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