[Kackikat]

The author of a book accusing FEMA of paying him $250,000 for a house he built right on the water that was destroyed by hurricane and he knew it would, and they paid him not once but twice. THAT IS OUR MONEY FOLKS. In light of the fiasco caused by local and state officials in Louisiana, which has caused FEMA to become the scapegoat tells me that we need to re evaluate having such a beaurocratic organization in the first place. The Coast Guard, National Guard and other military groups have done most of the evacuation. The local police are responsible as first responders, as well as firefighters etc. The red tape prevented THE RED CROSS AND THE SALVATION ARMY from responding, is this what we want in future? I think the Coast Guard, militaries and others who get in ahead of them can accurately evaluate any situation as to whether they can come. I certainly don't want my tax dollars paying the rich so they can build beach houses at my expense, when insurance companies want insure them. That is ludicrous. I want to know if anyone else has though of this??? Please give your opinions and why you have those opinions. This is not a criticizm of OUR PRESIDENT, it is a questioning of massive control the state had in preventing FEMA from operating. If they can't respond, why have them?

[Jim Noble]

The opponents of creating FEMA in the first place have been proven exactly right.

When the suffering victims of Mississippi and Louisiana needed a general, we sent them a lawyer.

FEMA should be dissolved.

[CharlesWayneCT]

Those other groups did what they are trained to do. FEMA is a coordination organization. The coordination needed for this storm is unlike any other.

I do have to wonder if we spent so much effort on planning for a tight coordinated response to a localized problem (terrorist attack) to the detriment of a generalized and widespread response to a storm like Katrina (which hit an extremely LARGE area, knocking out all "nearby" response centers -- some military bases which might have been used if New Orleans had a levey breech without warning were down for two days because of the storm).

[zzen01]

FEMA was a Jimmy Carter created cluster-F$CK! It hasn't improved with age.

[Mike Darancette]

If the welfare pukes at the Superdome were as bad off as they screamed they were I would have expected a lot more dead.

Notice how uniform their piteous stories were?