Reply #86: Not criticizing your community but FEMA. You do understand that fed politics/aka bushites [View All]

[uppityperson]

is what gutted FEMA, making it so much less able to deal with what it was set up for, managing emergencies on a federal level, right?

This is not about the community EXCEPT how the FED gvt is trying to control it. Good lord, can you not see that we are upset at how the FED gvt has politicized disasters, and we are more concerned about the people involved that the FED gvt is?

If you want to tie yourself to a whipping post and say "go ahead, bash my day", unless you are part of those incompetents related to FEMA at the FED level, you will be really bored. That is the strawman here. We criticize the FED gvt, you counter with us criticizing the community. Perhaps you are just stressed out there and are over reacting.

From OP:

"In addition, FEMA is controlling the story, keeping the facts from the press, and trying to hide the ball they are dropping.

Even worse is the way the Federal Government is trying to keep the media away from the disaster areas and control the story. FEMA and the FAA are stepping all over Freedom Of The Press."

"It didn't take long for the finger-pointing to begin.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency came under fire Sunday as emergency workers were left undernourished and dozens of trucks or water and food had yet to be set up at distribution centers around Houston and surrounding communities.

And no sooner had the agency — widely condemned for its glacial response to suffering after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 — drawn sharp criticism as its leaders and spokesmen began to say it was someone else's fault.

Politicians, FEMA blame each other for relief missteps"

See, FEMA is getting bashed, and the "F" is for "Federal" and those complaining ARE local people.