Katrina relief question: OT

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Right on, Tim. Also FEMA is a reactive organization, not proactive.


Apparently, not reactive enough. Right now, there are diabetics going into
insulin shock, and cardiac patients going into congestive heart failure
because they can't get their meds. There are dialysis patients with no
hospitals. There are people with no food and water. There is no
communication to refugees. There's no place to put people. There's an
underwhelming military presence.

There's little evidence that the US can adequately handle an emergency of
this scale in a timely fashion in the 21st century. This has zero to do
with politics--I'm not sure any administration could have done better.
Certainly, every administration since Kennedy has done little to beef up
the levee system. That said, the underwhelming Guard presence can be traced
to current policy, and much of our other military services have their eyes
elsewhere.

It is comforting to know, though, that those flying commercial airlines to
go down and lend a hand, will not be able to clip their toenails while in
flight. Unfortunately, it takes a disaster to show us just how misplaced
our institutional priorities are. The irony is that the TSA is the result
of an overreaction to another disaster.

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Scott
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