How could anything established under the miserable presidency of Jimmy Carter be useful except as another agency to provide jobs for the dreaded bureaucratic administrators?
In the case of catastrophes the individual states need to provide the necessary emergency services. The 'central' government should provide little in the way of services or anything for that matter to the states.
Providing large and disgusting pork barrel projects to their constituents and rewards to those that finance bloated political war chests is what today's government is all about. It is what is shoving this nation into the dustbin of history so that in a few more decades this nation will be unrecognizeable from its present form....which is unrecognizeable in the form it presented 40 years ago.
Federal agencies are evil and are, by and large, staffed with mindless bureaucrats who appear to have traded their souls for a high-paying government job.
“How could anything established under the miserable presidency of Jimmy Carter be useful except as another agency to provide jobs for the dreaded bureaucratic administrators?”
Because I’ve undergone FEMA training and they were very good trainers. Really, it was a very small and very good training and coordinating agency.