Bush says the response time was unacceptable

[MellowOne]

Putting blame elsewhere. Now on the news they are explaining that the responsiblity was with the state governments first.

It looks fishy to me. A national emergency occurs, the president doesn't respond even though he watches people and babies dying on TV. In a state of emergency, he can break rules to save lives. He has the power. Supplies and help are withheld, there is a delay until, lo and behold Bush rides in the at same time as the National Guard brings in supplies. He looks like a hero. Evacuation is speeded up as many helicopters fly in for the refugees. (why didn't they do this at the beginning?) He makes bold and noble statements about response time not acceptable. He now will save the people and rebuild their lives.

I'll probably get deleted but I want to vent my frustration.

[stray cat]

1. State governments don't have the resources - the fault is Bushs.

[Gabi Hayes]

2. Thanks....this is the way it USED to be, until the BFEE took over

The transformation of the Federal Emergency Management Agency illustrates one way to make 21st century governance work. A decade ago, FEMA was the butt of constant jokes. Wags suggested that every natural disaster was in fact two: one when the tornado, hurricane, earthquake or flood occurred; the other when FEMA’s case workers arrived. In 1993, FEMA Administrator James Lee Witt led a radical turnaround. He restructured FEMA’s work to get checks into the hands of victims faster. He built a fast-track claim process and upgraded the information systems that process forms. Even Florida officials, enraged by FEMA’s handling of Hurricane Andrew in 1992, had little but praise for the agency’s response to storms in 1998. The key to Witt’s success lay in redefining FEMA’s function. The agency traditionally arrived after a disaster to provide emergency relief and financial assistance.

Under Witt, FEMA officials focused more on preventing damage from disasters, through intergovernmental and public-private efforts. FEMA developed a “life-cycle” model of disaster management.

Instead of waiting for a hurricane to hit and dealing with the aftermath, for example, FEMA officials worked closely with state and local officials to improve evacuation plans. They built partnerships with the construction industry to design and build hurricane-resistant houses.

FEMA, in short, moved from a limited form of direct service delivery to a complex network-based approach that stretched from the federal government into state and local governments and the private sector. Witt saw FEMA more as a catalyst than as a service deliverer. He redefined FEMA’s role and rebuilt its capacity to deal with the new role.

http://www.govexec.com/features/0101/0101s1.htm
scroll way down

oh, yeah....this was written just before they took over and replaced all the competent professionals with political hacks, pioneers, rangers, and assorted dildoes

[nonconformist]

3. How can anyone in their right mind believe the STATE gov

has the resources to deal with this? THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT can't even hardly "deal with it".

[Spazito]

4. Bush signed a document declaring the area a disaster area BEFORE

the hurricane hit, at the request of the Governor, which puts into play the federal responsibility. bush lies, but then again, what else is new.

[PatrioticLeftie]

5. Unacceptable response time?

You mean like wasting 5 whole days?

[doublethink]

6. Bush says the response time was unacceptable ....

Tell him to look in the mirror, maybe at a few pictures of himself this week playing the guitar, eating cake, on and on. Peace.

[JHB]

7. Bush also boldly declares water is wet, nights are dark, and...

predict's last week's winning lottery numbers!

Tell us something we don't already know, George! You picked the people in charge of the response, you set its budgetary priority. We reap what you sewed, George, and it is "unacceptable"!

[Skidmore]

8. Appeared to be acceptable to him as long as he

was relaxing in Crawford.

[MuseRider]

9. So does he think

his response time was OK? Just wondering. He makes such a point about all his hard work and how he is our big leader man. Well?

[MellowOne]

10. The purpose of my rant

Is that the way the whole thing came down was make him look like such a great hero to the people. He comes in days later with guns blazing to rescue everybody. And after his appearance we have a massive rescue. Just a theory.

[Bluebear]

11. Why would you be deleted?

You spoke the truth.

[MellowOne]

13. Because I might sound like a conspiracy theorist n/t

[Deja Q]

12. Amazing what is state priority and what is federal priority. & what isn't.

That aside, people on the federal, state, and local governments SHARE THE BLAME.

Pinning it down to just one is stupid. Sorry. Even if it is just *, he is not the overlord (yet).

[Roland99]

14. Because HE didn't get the paperwork out until THURSDAY!

NO ACCOUNTABILITY!



EVER!




FUCK HIM UP THE ASS WITH A 2x4! SIDEWAYS!!

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