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"HeyBub" wrote:


A fair assessment of FEMA would disagree with the progressive meme. First,
FEMA had never in its history encountered a disaster of the proportions of
Katrina. Second, most investigators place the vast majority of what went
wrong during Katrina with state and local governments (contrast Louisiana
and Mississippi). Third, FEMA was never designed to be a first responder.
Actually it is not designed to run things. It is designed to come in
in an advisory capacity and to offer assistance only (the mission
statement on their website said that as of last month.
The main problem with Katrina is that the followed the hurricane
disaster plan to the letter. The La SEMA plan in effect specifically
stated that the Superdome was not to be used, stocked, or staffed as a
shelter. People were supposed to go the Dome, ride out the storm and
then be parceled to shelters as needed. Nobody (over multiple years)
every got around to thinking about what might happen if the other
shelters weren't available, which they weren't.
The general corruption and stupidity built into the governments of La
and NOLA did not help.

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"Even I realized that money was to politicians what the ecalyptus tree is to koala bears: food, water, shelter and something to crap on."
---PJ O'Rourke