Hurricane Helene FEMA and the weak Federal response

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Well of course its a failure. Bureaucracy can't deliver compassion. All it can do it stamp the foot down in one place, and perhaps sometimes the ground pops up in another.

Why do people even think it could work? Government doesn't relieve, it imposes constraint, for those who can't self-govern. Actually fixing problem is best done individually, then via community, then via local government. By the time national government gets involved, you'll usually only get some kind of nightmarish facade. For example, peace and freedom.

In fact, in some ways a failure for bureaucracy is a win for authoritarianism, because every instance of failure being pointed to carries with it the implicit assumption that this is something the government should succeed at.

Well, if this is something the government can not handle, then why in the hell are we spending so much money supporting FEMA when it's unprepared for one of, if not the primary mission of its department?

Regardless I know the attitude the government can't is wrong as there are plenty of times historically when effective leadership federal, state, and local, made the situations less and were more immediately helpful and less chaotic.

Ive mentioned this elsewhere, in the Carolinas some of the problems were it's taken so long for FEMA to get to other areas, they set up shop in Asheville and expect the rest of western Carolina to be able to come to them. When these people were isolated and cut off, so other local volunteers arrived got set up, and went to work independently of FEMA

Not to mention Florida has become much better at handling these situations and with a fraction of the budget since Andrew in 92

It doesn't have to be a cluster---- when it is its poor leadership and planning combined with a widespread every 100-year event