SF Gate Editorial on Faith Based FEMA screwups:

[rasputin1952]

That the Federal Emergency Management Agency mismanaged the Hurricane Katrina relief effort is old news. But there's more to FEMA's failure than simple bungling. The Bush administration's core belief that faith-based organizations can do the job better than the government or experienced nonprofits has compounded the problem.

Immediately after the hurricane, there were only two secular organizations to which FEMA's Web site urged that contributions be made; all the others were faith-based. What's worse, in at least some instances, FEMA relied on faith-based charities to spearhead the emergency-relief effort, regardless of whether they had expertise.

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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/09/19/EDGMEEP1GD1.DTL&type=printable

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Amazing that these asshats in the WH could figure that all could be handled by faith based charities....:eyes:

[MamaBear]

1. What they don't get (or maybe they do) ...

What the * administration flunkies in charge of setting up these things doesn't get is that all they are accomplishing by stunts like this is to utterly corrupt the "faith based" institutions they claim to want to support, while crippling the secular ones that are at least somewhat prepared to help.

They pander to the church groups to buy their loyalty.

They are literally killing the goose that lays the golden eggs. But maybe that's what they want.

[elehhhhna]

2. WHere were the faith based search & resuce copters?

please.

[rasputin1952]

3. I suppose they figure that one doesn't need choppers, when you have...

angels...:shrug:

Some of these groups are the same ones that think that God made Katrina hit NO, because of the Gay Day Parade that was planned...what would possess someone to think they would help the "godless sodomites"?

Far be it from some of these groups to just look at reality and understand that human beings were suffering and dying; worse yet, left to suffer and die because of some misperceived idea that this was the "Will of God"...:cry: