First Female FEMA Administrator Questioned Over Maui Disaster and Lack of Assistance: Blames Victims.
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That's just basic FEMA response.
If you didn't live in New Orleans (aka the media spotlight) after Katrina they basically told you to fuck off and figure it out. They'd tow you a used trailer that some nigger abandoned after using it to cook meth if you wanted, but that's about it.
After all, they were too busy trying to force people who didn't want to leave into leaving so they could look like heroes to actually help people who needed assistance just a few dozen miles away in smaller towns.
They also went around confiscating weapons from law abiding citizens without cause, didn't they?
They were basically LARPing themselves as dictators, with all that implies.
Including deciding to literally drop off bus loads of criminals to destabilize random areas to expand their "territory" by now needing to help more areas and thereby needing more "funding" (which never was used for anyone's benefit).
Because the only people left in New Orleans stayed there for criminal purposes, so every bit of "refugees" was literally dropping off evil into your town.
Yes.
If you were stuck in NO, one of like 20 white people, it was like Rhodesia.
Has FEMA ever been good at anything? Abolish it, give us our tax money back, and let charity and volunteer efforts do their job.
This should be the answer to most government programs.
"Who will pave the roads?!!" - Obviously, not the government. Have you seen the potholes?
"Who will pay for medicine?!!" - Obviously not the government. My grandma died in an 8 hour waiting line at the ER because of the NHS.
"Who will stop the active shooter?" - Obviously not the government. Remember Uvalde?
"Who will help the victims of a disaster?"
Obviously, not the government.
I dunno it's not that governments are incapable of paving roads. Some do it well like my little city. Because the government is very close to the people. There isn't a whole separate political class.
It is my broad opinion that there are a lot of systems that can work when u have relatively honest if self interested people.
All governments are capable of shit. In fact, part of the problem with long-term authoritarian states is that if the government actually masters and monopolizes competency in specific fields, then it becomes actually impossible to remove the government from those fields because people are totally dependent on them.
However, governments only tend to be competent at specific things they care about. Soviet rocket engines are bad ass. Soviet cars? Oof. Chinese electronics? Very good. Chinese healthcare? Oh god. What you can quickly end up with is a government that has a ton of control over things, but is jacked up with most of them.
Worse, if it goes on too long, they start to loose competence as the government jobs become make-work programs going decade after decade. British rail in 1850? Stellar. British rail in 2023? Total disaster.
You do need a governance class to help manage a large society, if that's what you are going to do. But that class will quickly turn into an aristocracy that will ruin society as it cares less and less about proper governance (especially if it starts to inbreed).
I have this idea of reversing the powers. Like what if the city you lived in took most of your money and provided most of your services? They're not all good governments but 2 things: 1) easier to vote with your feet and 2) I believe the governments that represent fewer people are more responsive.
In a way they kind of do the latter. I drive far more on city roads than the highway. Go to the city park more than the state forest. They pay the police, etc. So they don't get most of my money, but they may do the most
Amen!
Yeah, I've also seen the one guy working while three or four people hold signs, and six guys "supervise."
I've always said, a privatized open-bid system would be so much better, since they'd be held to some standards, and also much, much cheaper. It's a joke these fuckers get special treatment and often great pay to stand around doing jack shit.
It's funny because all the government actually does most of the time (when it's not makework) is just hire someone to do it.
I've read about several neighborhoods that got so sick of potholes that they bought the roads privately and had them paved in a couple weeks after purchase.
If that was it, I wouldn't have as big of a problem with it. But they usually have lots of "regulations" that in essence end up jacking up the price, as well as favoring certain individuals or companies. It should just be an open bid, and that would solve a bunch of the problems.
Yes, but that would defeat the purpose of those exact corporations paying lobbyists to invent the regulations to make them the only people who can successfully bid on the contract in the first place.
President Ronald Reagan said, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’”
"I asked you for disaster relief 10 years ago, and you just finished a bridge to nowhere that just burned down."
"Yes, but think of all the jobs I created building that bridge. Now give me your money or I'll shoot your dog."
Reagan was a warmongering pig. The fact that so many yuppies made $ hand-over-fist in the '80s has him elevated in the minds of many to the status of demigod. Many even give him credit for the implosion of the USSR.
I'm starting to believe all US government agencies are only competent in fictional media...
They’re very good at wasting money.
And solid at going after people who might oppose their wasting of money
We must watch different media.
I'm just remembering the FEMA from Deus Ex and the FBI from games like R6
Where it seemed like they were full of badasses than, well, reality.
In looking over stuff in Operation Mockingbird and related works, it's pretty clear there was a directive in Hollywood to make US government look competent and all powerful. Games that pull inspiration from such movies would, in turn, keep that stance.
A small group of actors with the permissions and power of the government are able to facilitate great change, as we are seeing today, but as a whole, if private companies have sqrt(number of employees) of actual productive people, government has to be cube root at a minimum,
Often not even then.
Deus Ex was eerily prophetic about a lot of things. FEMA being this powerful and ruthless agency was not one of them.
Maybe I'm misremembering the first game but wasn't FEMA the core part of MJ12's plan to overthrow the US government? Simons and Page were going to use the RX-86 and various executive orders to take over all critical infrastructure in response to the grey death. FEMA was also the one to execute the martial-law take over of Manhattan and you see a number of MJ12's MIB in their ranks.
Yep, that's pretty much what they were doing. And I believe there were even some in-game documents saying that FEMA was effectively the most powerful organization in America because it alone had the power to shut down the federal government and act in its place in the event of an extreme emergency.
None of these federal agencies should exist. Disaster mitigation should be built into state and local budgets. If they can't manage the funds themselves, it could be done through insurance companies. Humanitarian relief should be handled through private charities (likely religious). If we cut these alphabet barnacles from the budget and lowered taxes accordingly, everyone would have plenty of money to donate. The government robs people of charity and wastes it all.
She only looks slightly more feminine than Brave and Stunning Admiral Rachel Levine.
I'm sure she went on to bullshit later but I watched the 33 second video linked and it cut off after her initial bullshit. She obviously was going to crap on later but the question was about 20 seconds of the 33 second video. I don't doubt the headline but the video cut off too early to show it.
So no help us we're dying t-shirts for Hawaiians?
Misogyny, maybe?