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Old 02-28-2006, 08:54 AM   #14 (permalink)
aceventura3
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Originally Posted by Poppinjay
You can't rely on hoping some nice person will come along and build a levy.
Things get built when there is an economic need for them to be built. At least that is the way the system was designed to work. In New Orleans you had failures because: City looked to state and Federal; State looked to City and Federal; Federal looked to City and State. They spend millions on the Super Dome but don't spend money on the levey. That is government failure. And you want more government? Because of the NFL the Super Dome will be ready for use before most of the destroyed homes. Why? Because the nice folks at the NFL said if you want pro football fix the Dome ASAP.

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You can't rely on hoping some nice person will come along and bus people out of town. You can't even rely on any corporation to provide relief or aid in times of disaster.
Why not?

Yes, each city and state should have emergency plans. If people know that other people need help, you can bet help will be on the way. When people think government is going to handle it they sit back and think government will handle it.

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But a coordinating agency is needed, and FEMA has done a good job of it up until this administration added layers of government to it by placing it under the auspices of Homeland Security.
Are we really talking about FEMA or is this really just to bash Bush?
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