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[xiphias]

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.

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My semi-paranoid conspiracy-theory opinion is that they want to dismantle FEMA entirely, so they saddled it with a figurehead idiot for a director, slashed its budget, mired it in bureaucracy by forcing it to "report" to DHS, and did everything they could to cripple it. Now they'll point to this "colossal failure" as proof that FEMA is dead, and incorporate its functions into DHS [in the same half-assed incompetent fashion] while destroying the original agency.

It's DHS, all right.