Hurricane Helene FEMA and the weak Federal response

[Maxmars]

You yourself made it political in the opening thread where you mention FEMA and the Biden administration. Now you tell me that I shouldn't make it political or mention FEMA? So I offered you my opinion to the contrary. I guess I apologize if it affected your sensitivities or invaded your personal space. My bad. However RINO's or not, the affected are receiving help. The ones not receiving help are trapped behind a100 miles of missing road, not minor repairs, but completely gone. No infrastructure to speak of , all roads closed .I am really close with a few brewers and owners in the Ashville area, and our industry is rallying around several collaborations with 100% of the proceeds going to affected communities in Ashville and other places. Already have a couple hundred signed up. Don't tell me I don't know, those people lost everything, business and home, all of those people lost everything. So ya, a bit sensitive about it. If you don't want to have politics leak into a thread, don't bring up politics.

Apologies... I missed your subsequent answer before my last post.

Agreed, alluding that the story is "about" politics detracts from the point of a federal agency's management falling short of effective and satisfactory.  We presumably establish these agencies to operate regardless of political partisanship issues.  Our elected officials' partisan gamesmanship in "appointing leadership" may be to blame for the inefficiencies.  But that is another topic entirely.

But that counter point you raised is equally political.  I understand now that you may have been highlighting the 'fact that everyone always complains and lassos in a political angle.'  I'm sorry if I clumsily commented on your post, but as I said earlier, and as you well know, my concern is primarily directed at those suffering and waiting for help that our government spokespersons have publicly said "we cannot afford it, give us more money."

What isn't political is "pain, suffering, and helplessness."

I'm glad that your associates in the area can rely on support from your industry... I wish everyone had such devoted resources. 

FEMA was established to provide help and support for citizens afflicted by disasters like these... (yet I must point out that they always seem to provide it with a floor show of their 'virtue' (which politicians seize as a virtue signaling opportunity) and their perennial and instantaneous claims of 'working on a shoestring budget' with every disaster they are called upon to handle. 

Not necessarily anyone's 'fault' - except that it is what we pay them for... as they proudly claim to be 'ready' for it at every opportunity that isn't a disaster.

I am not seeking to invalidate your opinion.  Just trying to understand it.