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Originally Posted by aceventura3
When will they realize that people helping people is always going to be better than government "taking" (through taxes) from one person to give to another.
I suggest we get rid of FEMA. They clearly added no value, so what's the point of the agency existing.
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This is a little confusing ace. Reading between the lines, I'm gathering that you think charity helping people is better than government taking taxes and helping people?
I can understand where that point comes from, but at some level there has to be a coordinating agency or party to make sure that all of the individual charities aren't out buying water and no one buys blankets... That's an extreme example, but Katrina did show us that a major disaster brings up a lot of different needs and a lot of problems that only have long term solutions. To me, thats a formula that requires coordination by a government agency - I just don't see any other way to do it. I've also never (yet) heard a plan to accomplish that sort of large scale disaster response that sounded feasible.
So, on the whole FEMA is better than no FEMA, but competent FEMA is best of all...