Posted on 09/07/2005 2:27:50 PM PDT by Crackingham
How many hours between the two?
And just who created FEMA and all massive government bureaucracies with their micro-managed rules and ridiculous regulations?
Congress!
It's about time they looked in the mirror for answers.
Not a single paragraph in the whole post. I suppose they were wiped away in the storm, since the FEMA request didn't include prepositioned duct tape.
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It's waterproof and works w/o duct tape.
Mark it on your calender
Here's the memo...no smoking gun here.
http://wid.ap.org/documents/dhskatrina.pdf
Booklets are big jobs. You have to write some BS, print it, warehouse it, distribute it, then sweep it up and dispose of it. Then you have all the various agencies that study, regulate and police each and every step in the chain from conceptual BS to pure rubbish. Just think of all the tax money dispensed and how grateful the recipients are going to be.
Training.
I'm sure it included "diversity training" and "conflict resolution" and "tolerance" training.
PC Kills.
I don't know the inner workings of DHS...but note the memo says, "We anticipate needing at least 1000 additional DHS employees within 48 hours
and 2000 within 7 days." The word "additional" is extremely important. What is not published is what was already done.
Sorry! I hate writting these long winded articles!
You typed that? Thanks. I remember Floyd and FEMA's poor response, except for the arts and croissants crowd though.
FEMA is not nor has it ever been the "FIRST RESPONDERS".
First responders are the ones at the local level, FEMA is not on site in any number at any place in this nation.
First responders are the vehicle where congress people direct dollars to be prepared.
Question is how much money was sent to New Orleans mayor or the governor to be prepared for disasters??? Could be they can't account for the dollars they received.
More than NOLA is going to have been flooded by the time this is all over.
And FEMA isn't going to be part of it.
It weas diversity and sesual harrassment issues training - there's always new stuff to learn there.
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