FEMA has outsourced hurricanecharleyrelief.com.

Gosh, I wonder if the owners of the company running it are Republicans. And is it too much to ask an agency that receives BILLIONS of tax dollars to fun a freaking disaster relief website? What's the problem? I guess they are too busy campaigning for Bush or setting up internment camps to manage hurricane relief.

http://fema.gov/cgi-shl/goodbye.pl?url=http://www.hurricanecharleyrelief.com

Where do you see that information?

A redirected website doesn't mean the site was outsourced. Do you have any information on who built the website?

wouldn't need to redirect people to a commercial website.

I have no info at all on who built the website but after four years of Bush running things I can guess it isn't a Kerry supporter.

I found it at the bottom of the page.

And I think it makes sense. The gummint doesn't have to pay a lot of people and maintain a lot of expensive equipment between disasters.

I have a good (and very wealthy) friend down the street who is one of FEMA's contractors. In turn, he has a number of subcontractors who he can call on.

His family has been in the timber business for generations. They already had many of the big trucks and front end loaders, etc. used in disaster cleanup. He got into the business in 1979, following Hurricane Frederic in Gulf Shores, AL. He was just three hours up the road, near Montgomery. He saw this as a job he could do, rounded up a bunch of his logging buddies, contacted FEMA, and a new (and very lucrative) business was born.

as-needed basis. sounds sensible to me.