The truth is FEMA and DHS ARE fattened Federal pigs incapable of justifying the funding they receive with actual product.
In this sense, like manyother government agencies there is a disconnect between funding and actual results.
Department of Education anyone?
Department of the Interior?
You waited so long FEMA changed its webpage. The quotes of assistance I had were unedited, bulleted points on the page directly linked to and the quotes were valid at the time posted.
To tell you the truth, I'm not too surprised they deleted them. The closer one looked at them - one realized how little they actually were doing for Rita.
The FBI and "G-men" for decades lived off of the reputation made during the sixties by TV shows of the same name.
"Public perception" goes a long way to appearing like one has some real gameplan and sharpies at the helm. The sad truth is most Federal agencies are clueless and filled with less than competent paper pushers who like the security and benefits package of a government job.
The head of FEMA was let go because he made it a bit too obvious that it is all illusion. That there are NOT folks taking shifts 24/7 keeping abreast of potential escalatable disasters or that FEMA or the DHS could adequately respond to anything identified in anything approaching realtime.
That's a no-no.
Its all about public confidence and perception. By putting someone in the role who has more "street cred" it may change absolutely nothing about FEMA or its capablity, but it does provide that all-important public perception need.
So since Tom has already run you ragged here, I'll give you credit for introducing your only valid point to the Federal incompetence argument - namely that DHS and FEMA are WAAAY overfunded for what they actually do.
Current Events » in reply to Oh, don't worry- I have no fear that you'll 'pull a Brosz'
You know, scarily, in the midst of your diversion, you stumbed upon a point
The whole thread (84 posts)
- This was reply to something on flame, but rightly belongs here
- re: This was reply to something on flame, but rightly belongs here
- One thing you said, in all of that glop, was meaningful
- You missed the main point and dodged others
- Which was easy, because there was no main point, nor any others
- Not Federal Troops
- Gosh, Don't make me pull a Brosz on you. ;-)
- re: my point
- Talk about bullshit
- Try not skimming next time.
- Talk about bullshit
- Which was easy, because there was no main point, nor any others
- You missed the main point and dodged others
- One thing you said, in all of that glop, was meaningful
- Where is chicken little when we need her?
- So what if he lied. So what if Bush lied. What's the difference?
- Context
- Agreed, start to finish
- go ahead, blame Bush.
- For non-response by an agency administered by the Executive branch of which he is the head? Sure!
- go ahead, blame Bush.
- Levee failure
- This is silly
- what preparation would have prevented the levy failure?
- se above (n/t)
- re: This is sillier
- for every thread, spin,spin,spin
- Lets assume everyone knew the levy was going to fail 60-70 hours before Katrina.
- Thats sort of the point- they *should* have known the levees were going to fail 36-48 hours out, and ended up doing nothing
- Lets assume everyone knew the levy was going to fail 60-70 hours before Katrina.
- for every thread, spin,spin,spin
- what preparation would have prevented the levy failure?
- This is silly
- Oh, the original lead into that, the context that its missing was:
- re: This was reply to something on flame, but rightly belongs here