Accountability.

Post #227,909

10/4/05 12:26:39 AM

Accountability.

The mayor of NOLA was not elected by me, and isn't responsible for my safety. If he's incompetent, that's the problem of the people who got him into office, and live under him. They need to clear him out.

Who IS accountable to me is the Fed - and they're the ones who would be walking in after a 9.0 in Seattle, trying to help out picking up the pieces. Right now, I'd almost rather just try to survive on my own than let Bush's FEMA come in and pick up the pieces.

When somebody asks you to trade your security for freedom, it isn't your freedom they're talking about.

Post #227,910

by Another Scott

10/4/05 12:46:32 AM

Well said, but remember that FEMA is tiny.

Brown was right that FEMA just helps coordinate things. [link|http://www.fema.gov/about/history.shtm|FEMA]:

Today, FEMA is one of four major branches of DHS. About 2,500 full-time employees in the Emergency Preparedness and Response Directorate are supplemented by more than 5,000 stand-by disaster reservists.

When [link|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Rainier|Mt. Ranier] blows, FEMA's not going to be able to do much with 2500 people. Their mission is to coordinate other levels of government and agencies in responding.

That said, FEMA did a terrible job at coordination. Whether it was because they were overwhelmed, or didn't follow the existing plans, or the plans were inadequate, or were simply incompetent (or all of the above), I can't say.

Cheers,
Scott.

Post #227,922

by imric

10/4/05 7:01:12 AM

FEMA was gutted

and largely absorbed into DHS. I'm not surprised that it ddn't function as it once did, it couldn't.

If it wasn't tragic, I'd be laughing at the Bush admin, they created a huge bureaucracy with many faces for the purpose of reacting quickly to crises. What morons.

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Post #227,946

by inthane-chan

10/4/05 11:32:31 AM

Exactly my point.

The current crew is so incompetent they can't find their own asses with both hands. I'd rather that people who know the local area set something up on their own, than deal with that crew. Even if we had to rebuild our own C3 from scratch, we'd probably do a better job.

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