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FEMA’s news conference in Calif. is just another administration propaganda event. Similar to the event when George was on the aircraft carrier with the “Mission Accomplished Banner” FEMA had their own employees posed as reporters asking softball questions of the agency leaders.
Department of Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff said he found the phony news conference offensive, and, since it is an emergency relief outfit, I have some emergency suggestions for him.
Fire these people and the people who hired them and then explain to the new people that the best way for a disaster relief agency to get good publicity is to do a good job helping disaster victims.
Yeah,,,, it looks like they didn’t want to have any bad news get out like New Orleans with Brownie doing a heck of a good job. So they didn’t tell the media about the press conference 30 minutes before hand. This allowed them to use their own people to ask questions.
Not sure they need to make up stuff. I'm quiet sure if there were some terrible mishandlings of the disaster relief efforts in California, we'd be getting 24/7 live feed coverage from the left, with constant blame all going to the right.
One thing that stands out to me though:
California wildfires: Republican governor, things okay
Florida hurricanes of 2004: Republican governor, things okay
Hurricane Katrina MS: Republican governor, things okay
Hurricane Katrina LA: Democratic governor, absolute disaster, blames Republicans
Hurricane MS - "OK"?? Don't know where you got that nugget. Sure the damage was not as extensive as New Orleans, but overall Missourians today are pretty darn upset they are still waiting for the Federal assistance they were promised for recovery. FEMA has been and continues to be remarkably inept in both Missouri and Louisiana recovery efforts. Is it all their fault? No. But let's not start handing them gold stars, please...
Uh, I was referring to Mississippians. As for the damage, being born and raised in south Mississppi and having family that lived in in Bay St. Louis and Pass Christian, the damage was catastrophic. The only thing better for MS than LA was they are above sea level, so the water went away. As for damage, it looked as though an atomic bomb went off. My cousin in Bay St. Louis lost everything that wasn't in the car with her when she fled. Unless you want to count the concrete slab her house sat on.
And no, the recovery hasn't been handled with flying colors, but I think people forget that when a catastrophic amount of damge due to nature rolls in, building back up in a day, week, month, or even a year or 2 is impossible. It takes a long time for recovery.
The difference is the amount of whining and the amount of failure in rebuilding has been substantially higher in NOLA than MS. NOLA has also received substantially more money both through the federal government and donations than MS. Thats because if you didn't have roots in MS, you wouldn't have even hardly known that MS was wiped out by Katrina. The media largely ignored MS because there weren't thousands upon thousands standing around with their hands out waiting for nannystate government to come make it all better.
Not saying the Republicans are great, but people do tend to do better when they don't rely on government in general, because government can not fix very much.
Well they should definitely be commended for their efforts. I agree you need to be proactive when life smacks you in the face. I have been reading some 2007 articles discussing people in Missouri and in Louisiana's displeasure at the government's performance in the rebuilding, and the large gap between what was promised and what has been delivered. Even if that just means streamlining the paperwork and cutting all the bureacratic government red tape. These are the times you really do need the government to step up.
There are times when government needs to get out of the way.
The government is never out of my way when they want to take and spend my tax money! The least I can do is ask them to be “honest” about how they run their business! If not ~ close the door and stop taking my money for the things I don’t want it spent on.
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