First Female FEMA Administrator Questioned Over Maui Disaster and Lack of Assistance: Blames Victims.
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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.
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.