When government fails, get rid of it!
I'm beyond tired of hearing about the failure of government in its preparation and response to Hurricance Katrina. First of all, where in the Bill of Rights does it make reference to government's role in the event of high wind and rain? I simply don't see the need for FEMA at all. I would argue against funding of any type of federal emergency services. (However, I will argue for all sorts of LOCAL emergency services)
Why do I argue against federal emergency services? Because they will fail every time! And even if all of the thousands of employees end up doing a great job....there will still be people and organizations that claim it did a bad job for some self-serving reason.
So Hurricane Katrina wreaks havoc on Louisiana, and in comes FEMA....
Now what's the consensus? If you judge by the news reports and talking heads condemning FEMA, I would say the agency failed. Now, the logical thing to do when something fails, is to cut it off, quit it, get rid of it.
BUT NEARLY EVERYONE WHO SAYS IT FAILED THINKS WE SHOULD SPEND MORE MONEY AND INCREASE THE SIZE OF GOVERNMENT TO MAKE THIS SUPPOSED PROBLEM BETTER!
Finally, I come across an article that makes sense.
2 Comments:
The failures of FEMA had nothing to do with how much or how little MONEY was spent. The failures were due to the how little experience and comepetence the political hacks and cronies had that were running FEMA.
It wasn't a failure of government; it was a failure of those in charge of the government.
6:41 PM
So you think that if different cronies were in the various FEMA offices the response would have been better? A better question is: What would have been a satisfactory response by government to this natural disaster?
8:18 PM
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