similarities
the similarities between our government’s handling of Iraq and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina are becoming more and more clear. Is there anything that our government can manage correctly? According to the report, the State Department paid $43.8 million to contractor DynCorp International for the residential camp for police training personnel outside of Baghdad’s Adnan Palace grounds that has stood empty for months. sounds like... Layers of bureaucracy prevented some of the basic emergency procedures from working quickly. For instance, much of the aid for Katrina sat idle because no one knew where it was. However, the fault lies largely at the very senior levels. Michael Brown, the director who later resigned, was unqualified for his job and is known to have lied on his resume... All of these are vital steps to ensuring an effective response, but FEMA also needs good partners in the local and state governments. The agency has been criticized for having hundreds of empty trailers that still have not been distributed. FEMA has been hindered by local governments who refuse to rescind restrictions on placement of the trailers. Louisiana is infamous for having one of the most corrupt and least efficient government systems in the union, and this incapacitates FEMA’s post-disaster management. if neither our federal or state goverments can govern us correctly, who do we call?
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