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To: Grainne who wrote (108227)	9/7/2005 6:39:29 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I'm no expert on FEMA. Am not even comfortable with the assertion that FEMA has been weakened - if it has how. I think the government failings were mostly city and state. The failure to use resources (the lots full of flooded buses)to get more people out ahead of the storm is purely a local failure. The one thing local authorities did right was issue a "mandatory evacuation" order - and I've read that Bush urged that on them in telephone conversations. It probably saved tens or hundreds of thousands of lives. If we're going to expect the federal gov't to move a lot faster than they did in this instance - we need to federalize/nationalize disaster response from the getgo. That still hasn't been done. And there are state sovereignity issus involved in doing that. The blame game being played out now is purely political and nothing good and probably some bad will come out of it.