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In reply to the discussion: President Obama’s Creepy Executive Order: "Putting the economy on a permanent war footing" [View all]truedelphi
(32,324 posts)So the FEMA authorization via the Executive Order had no impact?
It was discussed ad nauseum on talk radio in the nineties, long before Bush was in office.
And it was proven that what some of us worried about came to pass when Katrina occurred:
http://thinman.com/studies/katrina_and_the_new_model_site/katrina_hurricane_forum_reference.html
Above includes topic about how Canadian workers reach devastated areas five days before FEMA
Above topic also includes the following topics about FEMA: (The words of the index - not mine):
FEMA camp conditions
FEMA Communications Neglect and Sabotage
FEMA Corruption, Checks
FEMA Debit Cards
FEMA Fraud, prior to Katrina
FEMA Incompetence
FEMA Neclect, Medical Professionals
FEMA Neglect becomes homicide
FEMA Neglect
FEMA Neglect, Burying British Food
FEMA Neglect, Firefighters held in Atlanta
FEMA Neglect, Michael Brown
FEMA Neglect, Plaquemines Parish
FEMA Neglect, Weather Specialists
FEMA Public Relations
FEMA Refuses International Help
FEMA scraps debit card program
FEMA sends away Red Cross
FEMA, Animal rescue permission slips
FEMA, Communications Sabotage
FEMA, Deliberate Neglect, report by Animal Group
FEMA, List of Negligence
FEMA, Michael Brown Lies
FEMA, Neglect, Supplies sitting
FEMA, Push blame to later
So now we can get screwed over by Homeland Security, as soon as Obama is out and whatever Republican replaces him. Probably not in 2012, but later on certainly. The country goes 8 years of one Party followed by (usually) eight years of the other.