'Thinking the problem through' -- FEMA official on CBS

[cynatnite]

Let's just take FEMA as it is now, dump everyone in it out, and start over.

First order of business: Get someone who knows what the hell they are doing!!

:grr:

[Occulus]

1. FEMA should not exist

it has too much power (and always did) and, as part of DHS, has proven to be ineffective at best and detrimental to search and resuce operations at worst.

Dismantle the entire organization from the top down (or the ground up) and break it apart, Ma Bell style. Also, we should revoke most of FEMA's power- you know, so it can't dictate to us.

I won't deny that FEMA *could have* served a grand purpose, but now I know: FEMA is part of the problem, not part of the solution.

[stillcool]

3. The federal apparatus...

including all the spy agencys, the Pentagon etc., need to be dismantled. They cost billions of dollars, nobody knows what they do..their so compartmentalized...people have been waving the red flags for years but...

[cynatnite]

4. Didn't FEMA used to be more efficient?

I don't remember a time when FEMA got hit as bad as it is now. This is the first time I've really looked at it, too.

[walldude]

7. Yeah before they handed the reigns to a guy

who almost got fired from his last gig as the Commisoner of the International Arabian Horse Assoc. Then folded the whole thing under the umbrella of Homeland Security. Don't you fell secure now?

[Junkdrawer]

6. We needed a Dunkirk style rescue effort, we got an attempted Soviet...

style exclude and cover-up attempt.

[KerryOn]

2. What a repug at work today said about FEMA ...

She said that "Home Land Security" should not exist.

She said that the Democrats were the ones that created it and now FEMA must report to them. She said they should get rid of Homeland Security and let FEMA work like it was suppose to.

I didn't want to get into another argument with this person again like I have so many times in the past. I just told her if Bush had spent all the money he had spent on Iraq on Home Land Security, and put qualified people in charge, that we wouldn't be in this mess.

After that I just walked away. (Rush was blasting on her car radio by the way.)

[Carla in Ca]

5. This is how the Dems can win back the WH

AND Congress. There is a pattern here, cronyism. We need to expose each one we find. They know how to win, but they don't know how to govern. That should be the mantra for '06 and beyond.

We all know Brown's bio. Zero disaster experience. Here are the two who now work under him. God help us all.


Rhode's Bio:

His first position with the Bush Administration was as special assistant to the President and deputy director of National Advance Operations, a position he assumed in January 2001. Previously, Mr. Rhode served as deputy director of National Advance Operations for the George W. Bush Presidential Campaign, in Austin, Texas.


Bio for Scott Morris:

Mr. Morris was also the marketing director for the world’s leading provider of e-business applications software in California, and worked for Maverick Media in Austin, Texas as a media strategist for the George W. Bush for President primary campaign and the Bush-Cheney 2000 campaign.