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Thread ID: 20072 | Posts: 1 | Started: 2005-09-07
2005-09-07 20:32 | User Profile
[url=http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/06/katrina.charleston/index.html?section=cnn_latest]Right City, Wrong State[/url]
FEMA notifies Charleston SC to prepare for evacuees, and then sends them to WV.
[url=http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_3004197]Frustrated: Fire Crews to Hand Out Fliers for FEMA[/url]
The bureaucratic mentality at its finest. What's FEMA's number-one priority at this stage? Sexual harassment training. But the real gem comes at the end.> But as specific orders began arriving to the firefighters in Atlanta, a team of 50 Monday morning quickly was ushered onto a flight headed for Louisiana. The crew's first assignment: to stand beside President Bush as he tours devastated areas. Finally, a quote from "Big Government: An [u]Un[/u]Natural Disaster" by Lew Rockwell, written shortly after the 89 quake, as a reminder that nothing has changed.> As Nobel Laureate F.A. Hayek pointed out in The Road to Serfdom, "the worst rise to the top" in government. Most officials fall into two categories: smart and despicable, and stupid and despicable. An emergency gives us the chance to pull back the curtain and see these Wizards of Oz for what they really are.
In the Bay Area, we could turn on the TV and watch San Francisco's frenetic Art Agnos and our rulers hog the cameras and fight over the microphones. We could listen to them babble the obvious, issue irrelevant orders, and announce a Master Plan worthy of Moscow. It would have been funny if not for the suffering...and the spooky look in all those elected and appointed eyes. The little dictators were actually enjoying it.