26 August 2008

FEMA Supports The Troops.

Not. The Federal Eternal Misery Agency sets a new low, even for them:

A wind-shredded American flag still hangs on the front of a home on 4th Street in Chalmette -- one Arnold Crabtree has struggled to rebuild.

Crabtree was deployed for a year of duty in Afghanistan a couple months ago, but in the time since he's been gone, the soldier says FEMA came by and took the trailer he had been living in.


And this:

(Kathy) Hernandez, who has been looking after Crabtree's property since his deployment, says FEMA left his possessions outside the home, before taking the trailer.

From my perspective, FEMA is the most useless, incompetent and ineffective organization ever dreamed up by the US government, period. And the US Government has dreamed up a lot of 'em. Down here they seem to be staffed by carpet-bagging contract workers, questionably competent "experts," disaster junkies, and turf-obsessed bureaucrats, who all appear more interested in keeping themselves in a paycheck than actually getting anything done (solutions mean their jobs end). And those of us affected by the "event" don't seem to matter a rat's ass to them - their rules, their regulations, their turf and our "compliance" do. If Barack Obama guaranteed he would eliminate FEMA if elected and put some of these people under some public scrutiny, I'd seriously consider giving him my vote.

Hattip: Chad Rogers.

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