Friday, January 21, 2005
FEMA: Let's Make a Game out of Tragedy!
The Federal Emergency Management Agency was originally created during the Cold War. The agency's main mission: Provide a framework for keeping the US government in the event of a nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union. They were given hundreds of millions of dollars, and didn't do diddly except agitate for infrigements on our civil liberties.
When Clinton became President in 1993, he immediately refocused FEMA to be the Federal government's first-responder group in case of natural and other disasters -- and as such, FEMA earned a stellar reputation.
When Bush the Dumber entered the White House, he tried to shift FEMA back a bit towards its old mission. He didn't quite succeed, but he apparently did pack the place with political cronies who think that making a game out of the recent earthquake-and-tsunami tragedy was a really neat idea.
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