WSJ: Has doubts about FEMAs ability to cope.

preciousdove

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Thu Oct-06-05 03:30 AM
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WSJ: Has doubts about FEMAs ability to cope.

Edited on Thu Oct-06-05 03:32 AM by preciousdove

http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB112856124832161274-KNx_wn_NL4_Fa1FHJtmY8loOMsY_20061005.html?mod=tff_main_tff_top

FEMA's Next Crisis

Evacuees Line Up for Trailers
While Officials Debate Future;
Nagin: 'We Want You Back'

By CHAD TERHUNE
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
October 6, 2005; Page B1

"The city said it could take another two weeks for water and electric. That usually means a month," Mr. McGoey said outside his water-logged house. "What are they going to do with a million people who are homeless like us?"

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The Backlash Cometh

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Thu Oct-06-05 03:57 AM
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1. Don't they mean a Republican controlled FEMA?

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ClintonTyree

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Thu Oct-06-05 05:51 AM
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2. It seemed to work OK during the Clinton years.......

when James Lee Witt was at the helm, but then came the bush cronyism and the rest, as they say, is history. Unfortunately, so are many people on the Gulf Coast because of it.

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SharonAnn

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Thu Oct-06-05 03:41 PM
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3. Broken under Bush I, Fixed by Clinton, Broken Again under Bush II

Anybody see a pattern?

FEMA's response to Hurrican Andrew was terrible (Bush I). Bush I (and Reagan) had placed cronies in FEMA jobs.

Clinton vowed to fix it and he did. Hired top-notch disaster management experts and funded them. That's why the 9-11 response was so good.

Bush II came along and reverted to hiring cronies. Oh, and he defunded them too.

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