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Thread #84253 Message #1556781
Posted By: John Hardly
05-Sep-05 - 03:05 PM
Thread Name: BS: Genocide in New Orleans
Subject: RE: BS: Genocide in New Orleans
It is an interesting point, one that I haven't seen often made, that the absorbtion of FEMA into DHS certainly seemed to have a hand in furthering the disaster.
To further federalize programs -- to further centralize programs that apply to specific regions -- is, by witness of this disaster, probably not a wise move.
I just spent quite some time looking over the NO "Comprehensive Emergency Plan" in which it is quite plain that evacuation is absolutely the responsibility of the local government. And given the nature of evacuations, who would want to further federalize a local evacuation plan? What? ...so we don't evacuate until we get federal agents in to direct the evacuation out of real estate with which they don't have the slightest familiarity? ...and we wait for a signal from Washington to tell us?
We seem to have such a federal view of every problem. We seem to think that we can centralize every issue that America faces. Certainly this should show some of the folly in that kind of thinking.
Excellent posts, SRS.