Culture of INCOMPETENCE

[LuckyTheDog]

Screw corruption. The GOP's utter lack of competence is the REAL threat to America:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/13/AR2006041302159_pf.html

Nearly eight months after Hurricane Katrina triggered the nation's largest housing crisis since the Second World War, a hastily improvised $10 billion effort by the federal government has produced vast sums of waste and misspent funds, an array of government audits and outside analysts have concluded.

As the Federal Emergency Management Agency wraps up the initial phase of its temporary housing program -- ending reliance on cruise ships and hotels for people sent fleeing by the Aug. 29 storm -- the toll of false starts and missed opportunities appears likely to top $1 billion and perhaps much more, according to a series of after-action studies and Department of Homeland Security reports, including one due for release today.

The government's costliest initiative -- $6.4 billion allocated to place storm survivors in temporary trailers and mobile homes -- has ground to a halt around New Orleans this week, in part because of widespread racial and class tensions. Residents of surrounding localities have refused to accept the makeshift communities.

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[acmejack]

1. Willful Incompetence

They are competent in that they choose to be incompetent. They wish for Government to fail to prove their GOP talking points.

[ClassWarrior]

2. Exactly.

And when they cause government to fail, the corporatist vultures are poised to swoop in and clean up.

NGU.

[marmar]

3. Agreed...

Prove that government agencies are ineffectual at handling big problems so you can justify getting rid of them. This is negligence with intent.

[cspanlovr]

5. The same thinking went into Iraq...

If all went smoothly, there would be no reason for us to stay. But if there was violence, we'd have to stay. So, "bring 'em on" Bush and Rummy let chaos ring (reign, whatever) so we'd have to stick around and sort things out for them. Its working out very nicely for them, don't you think?

[skyblue]

4. And Stupidity

I loved the Ports being purchased by foreigners.

[ClassWarrior]

6. Wrong.

Laughing at the people who buy the "stupid" act all the way to the bank.

NGU.