Failures, Fetishes & Fiction...FEMA

 

The Washington Post story gives accounts of wasteful FEMA spending since Hurricane Katrina. What could possibly make this agency better and more accountable, while it remains in the same place? "Critical Thinking" skills cannot be magically instilled - in those that operate within.
Read The Times Picayune story about the recent Senate subcommittee hearing...FEMA and the US Army Corps of Engineers.
Pondering the Presidents White House Homeland Ssecurity and Counter-Terrorism advisors criticism on FEMA's trailer placement project...

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