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To: GovernmentShrinker

Your complaint is with bureaucracy in general and its inevitable inefficiencies whether public or private. If you are really a government shrinker you should be complaining about the very existence of FEMA, period.


44 posted on 11/02/2006 12:29:55 PM PST by Mind-numbed Robot (Not all that needs to be done, needs to be done by the government.)
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To: Mind-numbed Robot
If you are really a government shrinker you should be complaining about the very existence of FEMA, period.

I'd shut it down in a second if I could. But for the time being, the infernal thing exists, and the more demonstrations there are of how utterly incompetent it is at managing resources, the sooner it will get its budget clipped and hopefully be on the way to eventual oblivion.

The sale of the trailer that was trucked to Louisiana begs the question of why there are still people in Louisiana willing to shell out money for these rickety trailers, when most people who have no better place to live are entitled to get one free from FEMA. And while FEMA has thousands of the trailers unused and self-destructing in soggy fields in the middle of nowhere, and is emitting a laundry list of lame excuses for why the trailers aren't going to people made homeless by the hurricane, a FEMA trailer recipient in Texas who no longer needs his demonstrates the technique: Find somebody who wants one, and haul the thing over to them. Maybe the buyer wanted it for recreational purposes rather than as a primary residence, but so what? If there's actually a market in Louisiana for cash sales of flimsy FEMA trailers for recreational purposes, why isn't FEMA finding those people and selling them the trailers that are currently being left to self-destruct?

56 posted on 11/02/2006 12:57:02 PM PST by GovernmentShrinker
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