http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2005/12/22/bureaucratic-turf-wars-destroyed-fema-from-within/ Protect yourself from government gaffes, bureaucratic blunders and incumbent incompetence Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:25:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2005/12/22/bureaucratic-turf-wars-destroyed-fema-from-within/#comment-3954 Po&LoNCA Sun, 17 Feb 2008 20:53:47 +0000 http://www.ioerror.us/2005/12/22/bureaucratic-turf-wars-destroyed-fema-from-within/#comment-3954 Since Fema is not doing it's job,Why isn't it reorganized again? Why not distribute some of it's power to each state, so that each state may repond to it's own disaster? Why not get some poor people in there to run it, so that it might actually meet the needs of the people? It seems to me (from personal experience), that Fema will only repond to the needs of groups that have political power. Fema is letting down the actual people it was created to help - diaster victims, mainly the poor. Fema keeps the trama of the disaster going for months and years. Since Fema is not doing it’s job,Why isn’t it reorganized again? Why not distribute some of it’s power to each state, so that each state may repond to it’s own disaster? Why not get some poor people in there to run it, so that it might actually meet the needs of the people? It seems to me (from personal experience), that Fema will only repond to the needs of groups that have political power. Fema is letting down the actual people it was created to help – diaster victims, mainly the poor. Fema keeps the trama of the disaster going for months and years.

]]> http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2005/12/22/bureaucratic-turf-wars-destroyed-fema-from-within/#comment-3952 Low morale persistent at Homeland Security - Homeland Stupidity Wed, 24 May 2006 03:51:03 +0000 http://www.ioerror.us/2005/12/22/bureaucratic-turf-wars-destroyed-fema-from-within/#comment-3952 [...] Nowhere is this more evident than in the Federal Emergency Management Agency, hit hard by its inability to respond quickly and effectively to Hurricane Katrina last summer. FEMA has failed to fill senior-level jobs, according to a memorandum the subcommittee released late Thursday. Subcommittee member Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., whose district was hit by Hurricane Katrina, said with just two weeks left before this year’s storm season begins, the agency must beef up its ranks. [...] [...] Nowhere is this more evident than in the Federal Emergency Management Agency, hit hard by its inability to respond quickly and effectively to Hurricane Katrina last summer. FEMA has failed to fill senior-level jobs, according to a memorandum the subcommittee released late Thursday. Subcommittee member Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., whose district was hit by Hurricane Katrina, said with just two weeks left before this year’s storm season begins, the agency must beef up its ranks. [...]

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