Comments on: Bureaucratic turf wars destroyed FEMA from within

By: Po&LoNCA

Po&LoNCA — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 20:53:47 +0000

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.

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Web 2.0, Meet Homeland Security » Technology, Blogging and New Media — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 03:40:38 +0000

[...] The technology exists now; it’s up to us to begin using it. And once we do, we’ll have little need for the bumbling incompetents at the Federal Emergency Management Agency. We can take care of ourselves. Share this Post:These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...]

By: Low morale persistent at Homeland Security - Homeland Stupidity

Low morale persistent at Homeland Security - Homeland Stupidity — Wed, 24 May 2006 03:51:03 +0000

[...] 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. [...]