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

[Harvey Newstrom]

On Sep 6, 2005, at 5:23 PM, Mike Lorrey wrote:

> 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.

I don't know why you say FEMA has been successful in dealing with other 
hurricanes.  I doubt anyone in Florida would say that, including our 
governor.  Their service has been abismal.  They still have not 
responded to 20% of the disaster requests from over a year ago!  Many 
people still have no homes and have still gotten no response from FEMA. 
  They have been greatly criticized for not being able to respond.  They 
are understaffed and underfunded.  They simply did not have any 
supplies, staff or plans with which to respond.  They were created to 
respond mostly to hurricanes, but their funding and staff have been cut 
to a quarter of what it once was.  Now they are burdened with Homeland 
Security responsibilities.  There is no Federal Emergency Management 
ability left in this former agency.

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