🚀 go-pugleaf

<wrcowan1@hal-pc.org> wrote in message
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> alanswan wrote:
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> > You don't seem to understand what your talking about,, Once Bush
declared
> > the disaster area,, The aid and rescue efforts were supposed to start
> > automatically without a need for any request. That's the whole point of
> > making such a declaration, it is intended to cut through red tape and
> > eliminate the need for formal requests to be sent through government
> > channels in order to get the help where it is needed immediately.
> > Unfortunately, the person running FEMA was not aware of this small
detail in
> > the operations procedures manual and instead sat waiting for a phone
call
> > from someone asking for help.. LOL
> >
>
> The aid was there and offered but the State still retains control of the
> show unless it speciffically cedes the efforts to FEMA.  That is what
> has been done in years past.  That is why it has worked in the past.
>
> Remember that FEMA's role is after the disaster not usually before or
> during.  With a disater of such scale it takes time for FEMA to step in
> and help but the Govenor chose to not work with FEMA and instead hires
> her own relief director to do things.
>
> That is just a small fraction of what went wrong.  IT was not our
> Federal Government but the State and Local officials who screwed up.
>
> MRC
>
> P.S.  Top posting is considered by manners by many in this new group.
> Just thought I would pass that on to you.
>
Willfull ignorance and blind brand-loyalty is considered bad manners by many
in the Reality-Based community, too!
Ta-Ta, mrcoward. You have been assimilated by the Koolaid stained Rushcum
snowballers. Enjoy the echo...echo...echo....