FEMA is feckless. It's a ponderous bureaucracy filled with people that have a comfortable salary, good benefits, ridiculous political beliefs, and willing to use the money they have for anything other than what it was intended. If you don't believe this, think about how taxpayer money allocated for helping those in a disaster is being funneled into the traitorous effort to help illegal invaders. That alone should be convincing, and a less polite society would be rounding up traitors for prosecution.
fema has always been a spoil of war political appointment thing. now toss in dei hire pit and you have a mess. that said, i don't understand how folks think help can just rush in and fix everything in a couple of days that took a hundred years to build. logistics doesn't just happen. people have to prepare in advance. i can't imagine depending on others for water, w/o which i die in 3 days or so.
ReplyDeleteI remember talking to a man that lived south of Lake Charles after hurricane Rita. They'd cleared trees, helped each other, were getting a grip on the situation, and determined to start repairing, when a convoy of military vehicles approached down the road. The vehicles stopped, an officer said: "Damn, you already have everything cleared" and they left.
DeleteI really don't understand how the locals are allowing the officials keep them from what they need to do. They tried that after hurricane Rita, and realized things happen faster when the locals are allowed to return, and help is unencumbered. Nobody was stopped after hurricane Ike, looters found their happy hunting ground, and the repairs were underway before the first sunset.
you have to bear in mind that many of these places have been inundated with yankee libs. they immediately get together n vote in one of theirs in key positions. there are tyrant sheriffs, fire officials, local boards getting involved to keep their little kingdoms under their exclusive control. toss in the state officials with rules for "public safety" and then fema with "pre-approved vendors" and you have a logjam. the locals in the hills have had enough and are very near the shooting point. people who have nothing left to lose should not be trifled with. as of last night influencers in the region were concerned enough to be calling for restraint, for now. there are many that think this is another land grab in play. i'm beginning to agree. a lot of smart folks are saying something smells, not just the bodies.
DeleteWhenever you hear about DHS and FEMA being out of money......
ReplyDeleteRemember that the fiscal year started Oct. 1st.
congress purposely left fema out of the continuing resolution because they found out about the money being funneled off to illegals, illegally. mayorcas tried to put the blame on the gop, who rebutted with the trillion dollar receipts. they supposedly have 150 mil in reserve for such disasters. they are spending it reserving a whole hotel for four fema personnel.
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ReplyDeleteThe 0biden administration has the attitude of f*ck those red-pilled hillbillies. We'll help the people WE like.
Hurricane Rita was my education with FEMA. It's a slush fund for politicians, and bureaucrats. It is a failed executive order that operates outside the funding requirements of Congress, and used for political leveraging.
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