Posted on 04/23/2008 11:31:54 AM PDT by tralfaz7
How many federal employees does it take to waste our tax dollars and push an agenda?
The Transportation Security Administration, or TSA, is familiar to anyone who flies. They’re the people that make you take off your shoes, your belt, conduct body cavity searches and make grandma get out of the wheel chair because she might be a terrorist. Aside from being worthless and unionized (so they can’t be fired easily, thanks Dems), they are also pushing a PC agenda, at least in Atlanta.
One of our contributors flew to Atlanta today and sent back the pictures below of an Earth Day booth set up and manned by TSA employees, in uniform and presumably on the clock (meaning we’re paying them) promoting the global warming agenda and ways to “fight it and save the earth.”
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I’ve seen better displays at a 3rd grade Science Fair.
True enough, but you weren’t forced to pay for those ones.
Idiots.
Celebrating Lenin’s birthday.
I saw someone describe Earth Day as ‘Pagan Easter’, on this forum.
I thought that was pretty good.
My tagline says it all.
Unfortunately the TSA was not the only worthless bureaucracy created by one day in September 2001...DHS seems to have been worthless in many ways also.
“My tagline says it all.”
Which doesn’t say much.
This shows just how much of a farce "global warming" is. If we really took the time to add up all the energy was wasted from the very beginning, the first gathering of UN moonbats, each flying on a different air line (first class of course) from a different part of the world, staying in an expensive first class hotel, eating the finest food and French pastry, driving a rental car to the 'secret UN headquarters of the region turning on all the lights and air conditioning so they could sit down and plan their evil scheme in comfort.
No doubt these UN moonbats and the masses following them has already burned enough fuel, deforested an entire small country, wasted enough electricity, and spent enough money to have funded all the expenses of a African country would need to have it's millions of people fully welfarized and receiving the finest medical care available to a level equal to that of Norway.
How much of this propaganda will end up in landfills?
One "global warming" weekend Island retreat UN conference produces the equivalent amount of landfill waste a community of 10,000 people does in a week. The amount of jet fuel burned to haul all those Useless Nations representatives to that conference could power that town for a year.
It does not seem possible to take 22 separate agencies and combine them into 1 and then attempt to manage them effectively. I should know, I am an empolyee working for DHS. There are a number of agencies within DHS that do not belong there. Among them is FEMA. FEMA’s mission has absolutely nothing to do with securing the homeland. They would’ve been better off securing some levees in New Orleans.
You mean “Federal Employees Missing in Action”?
From the FEMA website. Key phrases like “when the federal approach to problems became popular” and “...asked President Jimmy Carter to centralize federal emergency functions” illustrate where, IMHO, we got so screwed up...
FEMA History
The Federal Emergency Management Agency coordinates the federal government’s role in preparing for, preventing, mitigating the effects of, responding to, and recovering from all domestic disasters, whether natural or man-made, including acts of terror. FEMA can trace its beginnings to the Congressional Act of 1803. This act, generally considered the first piece of disaster legislation, provided assistance to a New Hampshire town following an extensive fire. In the century that followed, ad hoc legislation was passed more than 100 times in response to hurricanes, earthquakes, floods and other natural disasters.
By the 1930s, when the federal approach to problems became popular, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation was given authority to make disaster loans for repair and reconstruction of certain public facilities following an earthquake, and later, other types of disasters. In 1934, the Bureau of Public Roads was given authority to provide funding for highways and bridges damaged by natural disasters. The Flood Control Act, which gave the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers greater authority to implement flood control projects, was also passed. This piecemeal approach to disaster assistance was problematic and it prompted legislation that required greater cooperation between federal agencies and authorized the President to coordinate these activities.
The 1960s and early 1970s brought massive disasters requiring major federal response and recovery operations by the Federal Disaster Assistance Administration, established within the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Hurricane Carla struck in 1962, Hurricane Betsy in 1965, Hurricane Camille in 1969 and Hurricane Agnes in 1972. The Alaskan Earthquake hit in 1964 and the San Fernando Earthquake rocked Southern California in 1971. These events served to focus attention on the issue of natural disasters and brought about increased legislation. In 1968, the National Flood Insurance Act offered new flood protection to homeowners, and in 1974 the Disaster Relief Act firmly established the process of Presidential disaster declarations.
However, emergency and disaster activities were still fragmented. When hazards associated with nuclear power plants and the transportation of hazardous substances were added to natural disasters, more than 100 federal agencies were involved in some aspect of disasters, hazards and emergencies. Many parallel programs and policies existed at the state and local level, compounding the complexity of federal disaster relief efforts. The National Governor’s Association sought to decrease the many agencies with which state and local governments were forced work. They asked President Jimmy Carter to centralize federal emergency functions.
Executive Order 12127
President Carter’s 1979 executive order merged many of the separate disaster-related responsibilities into the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Among other agencies, FEMA absorbed: the Federal Insurance Administration, the National Fire Prevention and Control Administration, the National Weather Service Community Preparedness Program, the Federal Preparedness Agency of the General Services Administration and the Federal Disaster Assistance Administration activities from HUD. Civil defense responsibilities were also transferred to the new agency from the Defense Department’s Defense Civil Preparedness Agency.
John Macy was named as FEMA’s first director. Macy emphasized the similarities between natural hazards preparedness and the civil defense activities. FEMA began development of an Integrated Emergency Management System with an all-hazards approach that included “direction, control and warning systems which are common to the full range of emergencies from small isolated events to the ultimate emergency - war.”
The new agency was faced with many unusual challenges in its first few years that emphasized how complex emergency management can be. Early disasters and emergencies included the contamination of Love Canal, the Cuban refugee crisis and the accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant. Later, the Loma Prieta Earthquake in 1989 and Hurricane Andrew in 1992 focused major national attention on FEMA. In 1993, President Clinton nominated James L. Witt as the new FEMA director. Witt became the first agency director with experience as a state emergency manager. He initiated sweeping reforms that streamlined disaster relief and recovery operations, insisted on a new emphasis regarding preparedness and mitigation, and focused agency employees on customer service. The end of the Cold War also allowed Witt to redirect more of FEMA’s limited resources from civil defense into disaster relief, recovery and mitigation programs.
In 2001, President George W. Bush appointed Joe M. Allbaugh as the director of FEMA. Within months, the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11th focused the agency on issues of national preparedness and homeland security, and tested the agency in unprecedented ways. The agency coordinated its activities with the newly formed Office of Homeland Security, and FEMA’s Office of National Preparedness was given responsibility for helping to ensure that the nation’s first responders were trained and equipped to deal with weapons of mass destruction.
A New Mission: Homeland Security
Billions of dollars of new funding were directed to FEMA to help communities face the threat of terrorism. Just a few years past its 20th anniversary, FEMA was actively directing its “all-hazards” approach to disasters toward homeland security issues. In March 2003, FEMA joined 22 other federal agencies, programs and offices in becoming the Department of Homeland Security. The new department, headed by Secretary Tom Ridge, brought a coordinated approach to national security from emergencies and disasters - both natural and man-made.
On October 4, 2006, President George W. Bush signed into law the Post-Katrina Emergency Reform Act. The act significantly reorganized FEMA, provided it substantial new authority to remedy gaps that became apparent in the response to Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, the most devastating natural disaster in U.S. history, and included a more robust preparedness mission for FEMA.
As it has for almost 30 years, FEMA’s mission remains: to lead America to prepare for, prevent, respond to and recover from disasters with a vision of “A Nation Prepared.”
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