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

[Mike Lorrey]

One thing to consider is that FEMA has been successfully dealing with a
large number of hurricanes in other parts of the country all year. Why
is it that the one that hits NOLA is blamed on FEMA? Might as well
blame it on HAARP, as some of the bunkertarian black helicopter nutters
are doing.

--- BillK <pharos at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 9/6/05, Technotranscendence wrote:
> > 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
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> 
> Mises have the luxury of being able to criticize everything as they
> don't actually have to do the job. As all opposition parties well
> know. The vote-catching slogans soon change if they get voted into
> power.
> 
> I am no great supporter of FEMA, but they do seem to have been
> virtually crippled by Bush since 9/11.  (An action mises would
> presumably have supported??).
> 
> See:
>
<http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-fema5sep05,0,685581.story?page=1&coll=la-home-headlines>
> 
> September 5, 2005  	
> KATRINA'S AFTERMATH
> Why FEMA Was Missing in Action
> # Most of the agency's preparedness budget and focus are related to
> terrorism, not disasters.
> 
> The Federal Emergency Management Agency once speedily delivered food,
> water, shelter and medical care to disaster areas, and paid to
> quickly
> rebuild damaged roads and schools and get businesses and people back
> on their feet. Like a commercial insurance firm setting safety
> standards to prevent future problems, it also underwrote efforts to
> get cities and states to reduce risks ahead of time and plan for what
> they would do if calamity struck.
> 
> But in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks, FEMA lost its
> Cabinet-level status as it was folded into the giant new Department
> of
> Homeland Security. And in recent years it has suffered budget cuts,
> the elimination or reduction of key programs and an exodus of
> experienced staffers.
> 
> etc......
> 
> BillK
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Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
Founder, Constitution Park Foundation:
http://constitutionpark.blogspot.com
Personal/political blog: http://intlib.blogspot.com

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