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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (13876)9/4/2005 9:40:10 PM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
"In other words, the Feds actually responded much faster than
they were normally expected to."

Uh huh.

FEMA Rules

By Dean
Dean's World

Interesting. So, apparently, standing, published FEMA guidelines state that first response is a local responsibility, and state and local officials should not expect help for 72 to 96 hours from the Federal government. The entire system is designed so FEMA can come in and help coordinate long-term cleanup and other emergency measures, under the assumption that local people will be doing their jobs--so that if the locals are having trouble the Feds will back them up.

In other words, the Feds actually responded much faster than they were normally expected to. So the critics weren't just guilty of unreasonable expectations, of expecting Federal relief efforts to instantly appear wherever TV cameras were. They were expecting FEMA to do things it was never intended to do, that aren't even in its mission statement.

Maybe we need to revise its mission and how it does things, but I gotta tell ya--I'm hoping local and state officials all around the country are watching and learning from this, and realizing that it is they who are "at the top" in these situations, not the Federal government.

deanesmay.com

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