xiphias | (no subject)

Is it possible that FEMA was under orders to be part of the problem rather than part of the solution? Or, at least, set up deliberately so that it could ONLY be part of the problem? I mean, FEMA used to help people, under a Democratic administration.

More to the point, I'd personally like to see people starting talking about how the Department of Homeland Security turned back trucks, refused aid, and kept people from evacuating the city, rather than FEMA. 'Cause FEMA, right now, is part of DHS, so I like to think of this as the Department of Homeland Security, not FEMA. When FEMA was its own agency, it didn't act like this. Therefore, this is DHS.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Wow. I remember when conspiracy theorists thought that FEMA would be the Trojan horse into a totalitarian Dark Age. OTOH, I am going to see this mess as a convergence of near-anarcho-capitalist thinking (the drastic cutting of funding, and hey, let's eliminate the estate tax!) and nepotism.