States Feel Left Out Of Disaster Planning (they have been left out!)

[donsu]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/07/AR2007080702115.html


A decision by the Bush administration to rewrite in secret the nation's emergency response blueprint has angered state and local emergency officials, who worry that Washington is repeating a series of mistakes that contributed to its bungled response to Hurricane Katrina nearly two years ago.

State and local officials in charge of responding to disasters say that their input in shaping the National Response Plan was ignored in recent months by senior White House and Department of Homeland Security officials, despite calls by congressional investigators for a shared overhaul of disaster planning in the United States.

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The national plan is supposed to guide how federal, state and local governments, along with private and nonprofit groups, work together during emergencies. Critics contend that a unilateral approach by Washington produced an ill-advised response plan at the end of 2004 -- an unwieldy, 427-page document that emphasized stopping terrorism at the expense of safeguarding against natural disasters.

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Bottom Line

don't count on the neo con government anymore

the neo cons know the weather will get steadily worse and cost more money. neo cons suck in money, they don't give it out willingly

[Fresh_Start]

1. Bush disaster planning limited to spin control

the rest was left to the states.

The states don't get spin control