I feel sorry for what Mr. Broussard is going through, but he is a fool.
He gives example after example in his TV interview of how FEMA is incompetent, nonresponsive, and counterproductive. He says that "bureaucracy has committed murder here this week." And what is his solution? To shuffle boxes around on a bureaucratic organization chart. "Make it a cabinet-level department! Give it more funding!" Puh-leeze.
Government is the only entity for which people think the appropriate response to failure is to reward it with more money and power.
He is right about people having to be fired. Some — especially the ones who ordered aid turned back — quite possibly ought to be shot, at least in my opinion.
But anyone who expects to be bailed out of a life disaster by the Hand of God (or government) is living in a fantasy land. One of the reasons rescue was so long in coming is that people have centralized the bail-out agency as far from their local control as they could possibly put it. Of course it is nonresponsive!
America was built on the principle that local problems should be addressed by local authorities — not passed off to the Great White Father in Washington. Nowhere in the US Constitution is the federal government empowered to bail citizens out of a natural disaster. FEMA is not just incompetent, it is also entirely unconstitutional, and today we see the reason the constitution was designed that way. Anyone who depended on FEMA to save his life or property was fooling himself.
I feel the same way for Mr. Broussard and his neighbors as I would feel for any other citizen who fell for any other con game. It’s a real shame that they lost everything, but you know, they knew the deal was crooked when they bought into it, and they really should have known better. It’s a shame that some people are incapable of learning a lesson until the consequences happen to THEM personally.
The real solution to this morass is to cut federal government to the bone. Make FEMA a cabinet-level department? Hell no — fire FEMA and close its doors forever! Delegate all its power and money back to the local states and counties, where local people can address local problems with their own local money, instead of sending it to Washington where they skim their salaries off the top and then fail to spend the rest on your problems. Because nobody has more incentive to make neighborhoods, counties, and states safe than the people who have to live IN them. For sure Washington doesn’t — we’ve seen that proven this week.
I feel sorry for what Mr. Broussard is going through, but he is a fool.
He gives example after example in his TV interview of how FEMA is incompetent, nonresponsive, and counterproductive. He says that "bureaucracy has committed murder here this week." And what is his solution? To shuffle boxes around on a bureaucratic organization chart. "Make it a cabinet-level department! Give it more funding!" Puh-leeze.
Government is the only entity for which people think the appropriate response to failure is to reward it with more money and power.
He is right about people having to be fired. Some — especially the ones who ordered aid turned back — quite possibly ought to be shot, at least in my opinion.
But anyone who expects to be bailed out of a life disaster by the Hand of God (or government) is living in a fantasy land. One of the reasons rescue was so long in coming is that people have centralized the bail-out agency as far from their local control as they could possibly put it. Of course it is nonresponsive!
America was built on the principle that local problems should be addressed by local authorities — not passed off to the Great White Father in Washington. Nowhere in the US Constitution is the federal government empowered to bail citizens out of a natural disaster. FEMA is not just incompetent, it is also entirely unconstitutional, and today we see the reason the constitution was designed that way. Anyone who depended on FEMA to save his life or property was fooling himself.
I feel the same way for Mr. Broussard and his neighbors as I would feel for any other citizen who fell for any other con game. It’s a real shame that they lost everything, but you know, they knew the deal was crooked when they bought into it, and they really should have known better. It’s a shame that some people are incapable of learning a lesson until the consequences happen to THEM personally.
The real solution to this morass is to cut federal government to the bone. Make FEMA a cabinet-level department? Hell no — fire FEMA and close its doors forever! Delegate all its power and money back to the local states and counties, where local people can address local problems with their own local money, instead of sending it to Washington where they skim their salaries off the top and then fail to spend the rest on your problems. Because nobody has more incentive to make neighborhoods, counties, and states safe than the people who have to live IN them. For sure Washington doesn’t — we’ve seen that proven this week.