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Originally Posted by aceventura3
I think we had the most effective results from regular people and even from comapnies like the often hated Walmart. They responded with truckloads of needed items. I voted for Bush, but Walmart was delivering needed items before Bush did his first fly over.
I have confidence in people. Remember the 16 year-old kid who took a school bus a drove it full of people to Huston. He "coordinated" his trip while FEMA was "coordinating" conference calls. I also remember a story about a guy who chartered a plane with his own money to deliver supplies and then to take people out. He did this while congress watched it all on TV or did talk shows The stories go on and on. I stand by my point. FEMA added no value and people helping people is better than government helping people.
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Anecdotes do not equal data. If anything, Katrina proved how ineffectual it is for random people to provide the rescue effort. After previous disasters, FEMA operated extremely well. Now that Bush has placed them under homeland security, they are extremely ineffectual.
I guess if his whole plan was to destroy FEMA, that was the perfect way to do it. Otherwise, it was one of the few truly decent agencies that did good work before Bush, Chertoff, and Brownie got their mitts on it.