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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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[mattblum.livejournal.com]

In case it wasn't clear, I do realize what your point was. But the chief reason why FEMA didn't act like that before it was part of DHS is not so much, I think, that it's now part of DHS, but rather that it's being run by a clueless incompetent moron who's following a script laid out by the administration rather than thinking at all for himself.