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Here's One Reason Why FEMA Is Doing Such a Terrible Job
« on: October 05, 2024, 01:00:11 pm »
Here's One Reason Why FEMA Is Doing Such a Terrible Job
David Strom 2:40 PM | October 04, 2024

I have long thought that one of the hallmarks of an advanced economy is built-in resilience to shocks to the system.

As with so many things these days, that resilience has eroded to the point that, except in certain areas of the country like Florida, it hardly exists.

You have probably seen many of the same videos I have, in which North Carolina residents are begging for help and wondering where FEMA is. Aside from funding migrants, that is. It seems to be doing a fine job at that, exhausting the funds that should be going to help Helene's victims.


https://twitter.com/ClayTravis/status/1842012144738443509

Why is FEMA so awful? Or, should I say, why other than the fact that Alejandro Mayorkas, the most destructive man in America, is in charge of it?

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Re: Here's One Reason Why FEMA Is Doing Such a Terrible Job
« Reply #1 on: October 05, 2024, 01:48:16 pm »
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Re: Here's One Reason Why FEMA Is Doing Such a Terrible Job
« Reply #2 on: October 06, 2024, 05:59:25 am »
"What people in need?"
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Re: Here's One Reason Why FEMA Is Doing Such a Terrible Job
« Reply #3 on: October 06, 2024, 09:03:31 am »
What, me worry?

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The leader of homeland security is shopping for expensive clothes while Americans are dying in the mountains of North Carolina
9:08 PM · Oct 5, 2024

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I would have probably held off shopping for slacks until all of the bodies have been recovered but that’s just me
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For context about all the FEMA stuff, I saw Alejandro Mayorkas this afternoon at Sid Mashburn, which is the second time I’ve seen him there on a Saturday afternoon in about a month. So, suffice to say, the guy isn’t working around the clock

6:40 PM · Oct 5, 2024

Story at Free Beacon: DHS Sec. Mayorkas Shops for High-End Menswear as Mass Power Outages Continue in North Carolina
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Re: Here's One Reason Why FEMA Is Doing Such a Terrible Job
« Reply #4 on: October 06, 2024, 09:43:24 am »
One of the glories of the administrative state is that it allows for the misallocation of huge amounts of funding ostensibly slated for something or somewhere else. Billions of dollars can be 'spent' by an agency if their mission is broadly defined, only on 'pet' projects of an administration far from what the American people believe is the purpose of those expenditures.

That FEMA would have a director of training/education for their 'pride' division, for instance, is dumping gobs of money down the transgender/alphabet rathole without spending it on the assumed primary mission of helping people in distress--but then, helping people in a natural disaster has gone down their mission list below 'inclusivity' and 'equity'.

There needs to be an accounting of who is getting paid what for what, and why.

At some point the agencies are so off-mission, so corrupted, they should simply be dissolved and their alleged duties either taken over by the States and local governments or simply left to the good will and decency of the American People.

But that would mean over a billion dollars that would not have been spent taking better care of illegal aliens imported into this country by the very agency and its subagencies that were created to secure the border, not import criminals en masse in violation of our laws.

Turns out DHS is the biggest coyote of all.
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Re: Here's One Reason Why FEMA Is Doing Such a Terrible Job
« Reply #5 on: October 11, 2024, 03:19:31 pm »
The leader of homeland security is shopping for expensive clothes while Americans are dying in the mountains of North Carolina
9:08 PM · Oct 5, 2024
DHS chief Mayorkas spends under six hours in Helene-hit NC before bolting to grab sushi at DC Nobu

https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1844785362087931947
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