Yeah...I have a pissy attitude. It's because I have to deal with folks who can't think beyond the cast of a 25 watt bulb. What's your excuse?
Dealing with people like you who say I did what I had to so I really don't own those that didn't a damned thing.
So...you don't really propose a damn thing. Eliminate it? Brilliant. That would really move things along. That is the "you built it" philosophy. Screw 'em...they can do it themselves. Let the states do it? Louisiana is poor. New Orleans still isn't rebuilt 7 years later. Note. 7 years. Then we have redundancy issues, as has been pointed out to you. It simply makes no sense whatsoever and would cost each state many millions to keep the equipment at the ready. We have no idea when or what disasters will arise.
I made a proposal, just because you don't like it doesn't mean it won't work. What would you do, allow FEMA to continue down the path they are on and make more lives miserable? When something is broken you either fix it or get rid of it. In the case of FEMA it is time to get rid of it, it is beyond fixing.
So you want everything restored to normal in a week...after one of the largest storms in the history of the nation rolled through the densest population centers. NJ was hit the hardest...and Governor Christie disagrees with your every assessment. The weather service warned and warned and warned people about the destruction that was going to come. Millions took the warning seriously. I was one of them. Isn't that what you damn righties preach? Accountability. But now...when people failed to heed warnings...you state FEMA does not work. FEMA is not perfect...and there is no private concern...or state concern that would be satisfying you in the face of this widespread misery.
I never said that, but it would be nice if the government agencies would do what they are paided to do instead of taking off due to a snow storm and leaving those in need to fend for themselves, now wouldn't that be a novel concept.
Millions of people were prepared...but damn...look at the scope of the storm. 8.5 million lost power. Seabright NJ is destroyed. Breezy Point is gone. Rockaways devastated...Boardwalks all over the seaboard ripped from their pilings...thousands of houses ruined. The people on Staten Island were not for a minute disconnected physically from the rest of the world. The bridges remained intact...and those that made the proper preparations as per the week's worth of warnings aren't suffering the same as those that didn't.
The left is always talking about the insensitivity of the right and look what you write here. It doesn't matter that some or most didn't prepare, what matters is that they need help and the federal agency has not done a damned thing, it's been two weeks now.
Blame, blame, blame, that is all the left does is look for someone to blame as long as it isn't their liberal govcernmnet agencies or their tin god president, both of which have not done anything to elievate the suffering.
