Subj : Re: It seems not everyone shares the "Blame Bush All The Way" viewpoint...
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : John I
Date : Tue Sep 06 2005 18:18:08

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

Trouble wrote:

> 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.


Apparently not.


> 
> 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. 
>

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