Rather than add to the chorus of criticism, here is a proposed solution for FEMA’s recurring history of incompetence: abolish FEMA and remove the federal government from the picture except as the funding authority.
Slow response, permission paperwork, turf battles, bureaucratic regulations, and shocking incompetence were evident (see, e.g., here, here, and here), especially by the Transportation Department and by FEMA.
When Hurricane Helene ravaged the Southeast recently, horror stories of ineptitude by federal government agencies abounded.
There should be training and rehearsals for each state’s response team.
These organizations responded with aid days before “disaster areas were proclaimed,” and FEMA mobilized itself.
Each small state response team should incorporate local first responders into the command-and-control organization.
To truly help Americans victimized by disasters, we should privatize the emergency response logistics by contracting the responsibility and authority for quick emergency response to organizations like Samaritan’s Purse and others.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/10/it_s_time_to_abolish_fema.html
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