FEMA/was Re: [extropy-chat] Fill it in a pave it over

[Technotranscendence]

On Tuesday, September 06, 2005 3:11 AM BillK pharos at gmail.com wrote:
> Since 9/11 FEMA has been made part of Dept
> of Homeland Security and only spends about
> 25% of what it used to on disaster planning and
> recovery.

FEMA is part of the problem.  Here's a blast from the past on them:

http://www.mises.org/freemarket_detail.asp?control=213&sortorder=articledate

and, especially, here:

http://www.mises.org/story/227

> As more people are now living in places 'in the
> way of harm' the US probably needs a permanent
> disaster recovery army which moves on from one
> site to the next.

Part of the reason this is so is because the costs of living in these
places have been made artificially low by government intervention.
Creating a "disaster recovery army" will only increase such incentives.

Regards,

Dan
http://uweb1.superlink.net/~neptune/