[afortiori]

May have to get used to it on a massive scale, even without a storm.

[beezdotcom]

I can’t wait until The Messiah is in charge of FEMA. But then again, I really like scary movies, too.

[donna]

After the Northridge Earthquake in 1994 FEMA passed out checks by zip code, not need.

[wildbill]

Black helicopters? Are yu wearing your tin foil hat to protect yourself from their mind control machines. They brought them in by the truckloads instead of bulldozers.

Seriously, I’m a Ike evacuee from a Clear Lake condo that may never be rebuilt. I’ve had to wade through the Fema bureaucracy to get help—but some of it was caused by my own mistakes in filling out their assistance app. I think their apps could stand some tinkering and helpful comments about how to fill them out. On the insurance question, I put down that I had insurance, thinking about the insurance on the condo buildings but not about the lack of insurance on my own condo unit and personal property.

I found the FEMA people on the ground to be very helpful and sympathetic but perhaps it was because I made an effort to be charming and praised them for their efforts. I find that often works with bureaucrats. The only problems I had were caused by the FEMA folks who I couldn’t personally interface with who were simply looking at their files on line from an office somewhere. The folks at the local FEMA centers took up my problems and tried to work them out.

[PLMerite]

I can’t speak for pushy/lazy FEMA people, but as to your first case, even people with nice cars and laptops are in the same boat as anyone else when the power goes out. And the nicer my stuff the more inclined I’d be to hang around to protect it.

[IrishCatholic]

Well, first of all you lose all credibility when you use ‘gubmint’.
Next, did the people with the nice car lose their nice house? Maybe that is all they have left. Insurance companies will like them no less and no more than anyone else. Plus, only the Dems hate people who are well off. It's called the American Dream. You shouldn't think the worst of them until you know for sure.

All the rest is unreliable gossip. Uncharitable too.

Good luck on going down there and helping. Look around too. If you find firsthand valid abuses document them. But stories second and third hand are just that. Like the Katrina stories of the Superdome. They later turned out to be so much garbage.

[stockpirate]

What they are doing is typical government behaviour.

While not anti-contitutional it is stupid.

And yes these are te same people who would be running the health care system.

[RobinOfKingston]

... you don't know the bad stuff they've done ...

"I'm from the government, and I'm here to help."

[diogenes ghost]

"FEMA tactics are anti-constitutional."

Why is this noteworthy?

Over 90% of Federal programs are anti-constitutional, why pick on just one?