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...debit card distribution is a case in point. Last week, when FEMA and the Red Cross each announced plans to give evacuees cards worth up to $2000, the Reliant Center was overrun by storm victims from inside the facility and from shelters throughout the city. Fistfights erupted along the lines that quickly snaked around the complex, and people fainted from heat exhaustion, prompting officials from both agencies to evict the evacuees who had stormed in from outside facilities, and shut down the system for the day. The Red Cross resumed its giveaway the following day with less chaos, though...
This is not to say that the federal government’s response has been exemplary; in fact, it has been far from it. Heads should roll at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Department of Homeland Security, and with any luck public outrage will compel the firing of the untalented hacks who were in charge during the destruction of New Orleans. However, the suggestion that without war (à la Michael Moore’s line of “all our helicopters are in Iraq”), or Bush’s budget cuts, or some...
These are all questions that must be answered just as assuredly as questions about the federal government’s responsiveness. Question funding cuts to the Army Corps of Engineers in a period of unrestrained pork barrel spending. Ask why FEMA head Michael Brown seemed to know less about the unfolding disaster than the average viewer of Fox News or CNN. But, please, spare the outlandish rhetoric, demagoguery, unsubstantiated speculation, and race-based bile. It is true that the Louisiana National Guard does have troops in Iraq, but the Mississippi National Guard has an even larger percentage of its forces...
...federal government—and FEMA [Federal Emergency Management Agency], in particular—were slow to realize the magnitude of the problem and to start moving resources into play,” he says. “There was no sign that there were any positioned supplies anywhere within easy reach from the areas likely to be affected...
...worth noting that I.E.M.'s Pam preparedness plan, which FEMA contracted for almost $1 million, helped 80 percent of the population of the New Orleans area evacuate before Katrina made landfall on August 29th-one of the highest rates ever for a hurricane. But more than 100,000 people didn?t escape the city boundaries-mostly citizens without cars. That?s because there weren?t enough buses available in time, a problem for which disaster preparedness planners hadn?t apparently accounted...