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Senate Panel Calls for FEMA to be Dismantled
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The Senate committee investigating FEMA’s failed response to Hurricane Katrina said last night in a statement that the agency is broken beyond repair, to the extent that it should be dismantled and rebuilt from the ground up. The group’s report, to be released publicly next week, calls for FEMA to be replaced with a new National Preparedness and Response Authority, created from the start as part of the Department of Homeland Security; FEMA was only absorbed into DHS in 2003, and the chain of command between the two groups has been blamed in part for the response to last fall’s storms. The White House issued a statement saying it supported FEMA as it is; perhaps they hadn’t yet heard that the agency has abruptly cut off about a third of the 55,000 displaced families dependent on the “long-term” vouchers that were supposed to last through the year.
FEMA worked fine when experts where in charge
Restoring FEMA to its independent role — as many critics of the Katrina response have advocated — "would do nothing to solve the key problems that Katrina has revealed, including a lack of resources and weak and ineffective leadership,"
So replacing FEMA with something else, of course staffed with incompetent Bush Administration political cronies will fix it?
That's like saying a carpenter with bad eyesight who keeps hitting his thumb just needs an expensive new hammer.
They do not care.......
It is just more talk-instead of intelligent people fixing a problem we will see more lies and wasted money. Bush and his ilk DO NOT CARE about regular people-the poor are disposable(along with many others).There is no excuse for what happened during and after Katrina.Calling it lack of leadership is just bs-it was intentional neglect. Anyone could see that people were simply abandoned.Now we can watch the concern while they finish of FEMA.
Replacing
Replacing one bumbling oaf with another, how do they think that starting up another goverment agency will make that agency any better, take a look at homeland security... it's brand spankin' new and it didn't do crap to help out.
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There's none so blind as they that won't see.
~Jonathan Swift
Good Point!
Good Point!
As long as the Bush administration is doing the hiring, it doesn't matter how they organize FEMA. It will be managed incompetently.
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FEMA worked before Chertoff's group took over
But I'll bet this action is happening to take
the heat off DHS. With their screwed up logic,
dissolving FEMA would make the ongoing problems
disappear.
And they STILL haven't helped these people!
More smoke an mirrors...
Sabotage it, so you can justify abolishing it for Ineffectivness
Again, A+ for Neo Con Consistancy
Multiple Choice- A. or B.
A. The Constitution and the Bill of Rights is an American citizen's security and freedom from Government.
B. In order for the Government to insure your Freedom and Security American citizens must give up their Constitutional Rights.
Am I going goofy on this or
Am I going goofy on this or is it the democrats that have proposed this? No matter how we look at this... this is a bad move designed to make it look like our fearless leaders are doing something...
Smoke and mirrors my friends, smoke and mirrors...
If “a rose is a rose by any other name
If it ain't broke-Break it!
This is a fearmonger's delight. The administration that thrives on keeping people afraid and paranoid is at it again. FEMA blows it big time after Katrina, not because of poor coordination with local governance, but because the idiots in charge were only out-idioted by The Idiot in Charge (aka, The Decider)
FEMA's primary job is emergency management. That means coordinating relief, getting the wheels to turn on emergency payments and disposition of emergency personnel. They are one of the few agencies that can declare an on-site emergency and suspend local rules and institute martial law.
So, what do the hacks do? Talk about dismantling FEMA. And replacing it with what? The National Preparedness & Response Authority that is neither prepared nor ready. The whole aim of this fiasco is furthering the grasp of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). This over-bloated compendium of everything from the Customs Service on down runs on the notion that most threat comes from without.
Hurricanes aren't terrorists. The entire organizational structure of Homeland Security is advertised in its name. Prevention and readiness will look great on the windbreakers these boobs wear at disaster scenes, but the reality of emergency management is that if you're anticipating most of your budget to go for idiotic things like protection from bioweapons (unlikely) or domestic eavesdropping, you aren't going to sink the money necessary into flood, storm, tornado, earthquake or other natural disaster preparation and development of the economic response necessary.
What we can look forward to here, is probably the onus being put on local governments to prepare the infrastructure for disasters, and the feds to "coordinate efforts". Unfortunately, with this pack of morons, that typically means spending millions self-justifying not doing what should have been done in the first place, then, not doing it, because you're still explaining WHY it wasn't done previously.
Hilarious!
"If it ain't broke-Break It!"
Brilliant! can I use that?
It's creepy the way they're dismantling any part of the government that serves the people instead of global corporations... just creepy, like what they tried with SS.
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It's all yours, with my compliments.
It's amazing that a 10th grade civics class with a simulation program could design a more effective & efficient government than these bozos.
I realized I called them idiots and morons a number of times. I apologize. Idiots and morons shouldn't have to be lumped together with these losers.
With hurricane season
starting NEXT WEEK, this is just the very best timing for the NEW WORLD ORDER Agenda. If you are not a beneficial source for them, you are less than livestock, because even the livestock can be used for food.
Beware the SPIN Masters.
Now is the time for all Americans to come to the aid of themselves.
i think
hurricane season starts june 1. but with global warming maybe it will start next week.
Seems to me that.....
.....the National Guard would be the ideal core of an emergency response corps. A Federal civilian board would organize the states' guard units and Corps of Engineers batallions into rapid response teams. The military has the specialties (when we bring them back from Iraq) that would most be needed in an emergency....communications, transportation, logistics, security and law enforcement, and medical. They already integrate and coordinate with the regular military, so reinforcements would be available in extreme emergencies.
Hmm, this needs some fleshing out....think I'll work on it.
"Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear."
William Gladstone, 4-time Prime Minister of Great Britain.
Great idea Rock
I like it for a number of reasons. The Guard also has tons of equipment. It ain't all new, but (as Shrub proved occasionally flying his obsolete Thunderchief over the same scorched Texas terrain I sweated in an M-60), most of it still works. Heavy earth moving and other equipment as well as other materials are allocated to the Guard. The only caution that I would add, is that the state militias are under the control of the Governors. I think there still needs to be a coordinating federal standard. I think guard deployment with standing units of regular military (army, air force, marine) and reserves specialized into military police, engineering, med & other emergency first response brigades that could be airlifted to disaster areas immediately is the way to go. Look at what happened in some areas after last year's tsunami. New Zealand & Australian rapid response forces had units on the ground almost immediately. They were flown out of Christchurch and Adelaide. They have them on alert for rapid response & deployment, with the option of outfitting in the field, rather than gearing up at their point of origin.
Of course, if most of your engineers are building blast containment barriers, finding anti-personnel mines or mapping out likely sniper positions in Iran, that puts a crimp in the plan.
Fantastic Idea... Include
Fantastic Idea... Include cross training for units outside the area where they reside. That way, personnel in the center of the disaster could tend to their families while those outside the disaster could be called to action.
If “a rose is a rose by any other name
LMAO
There shouldn't be much dismantling to do.
And I bet that ..........
......the Guard and Reserve would see significant gains in recruitment if they could be assured that their service would help their families, friends, communities, and their nation, primarily on US soil.
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"Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear."
William Gladstone, 4-time Prime Minister of Great Britain.
hell -- I'll make donuts!
If our guys can work at home, and take care
of their own! I'll be out there with the WWII
recipe in hand!
This has the feeling of something.......
........with legs. Let's push this. .
"Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear."
William Gladstone, 4-time Prime Minister of Great Britain.
Anarchy
I guess the neocons really want anarchy, so they can rape and pillage the country with no legal constraints. So they set up useful programs for failure, and then dismantle them so because they failed.
FEMA
If you have a terrible driver all you need to do is get rid of their old vehicle and give them a new one. Don't you know?
Yeah, one with ..........
.........the airbags on the OUTSIDE!
"Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear."
William Gladstone, 4-time Prime Minister of Great Britain.
FEMA dismantling.
Let's see,,,take control of an efficient and well ran organization, then f*&k it up to the point where it can't be fixed, then do away with it. I don't know about you guys but I'd like to see Brownie take over Ken Mehlman's job.
fema might be running the pentagon too
rummy is sending debt collectors after maimed soldiers who got overpaid a few crumbs.
Nope.......
.......there is NO WAY to overpay those people. Any cost, any burden, any effort isn't enough. Screw Mr. On The Cheap military genius Rummy. Screw him an his low budget, cheap ass ideas. Screw him. Screw his offspring, screw his ancestors, screw the land he stands on. Any questions where I stand on this?? NO? Good.
"Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear."
William Gladstone, 4-time Prime Minister of Great Britain.
rummy is not one of my favorite people
lol.