Re: The Mind Continues to Boggle

ing! Below. Examples of the bureacracy thingie.


Okay, so, like, there was this, um, you know, Josh Hill
<usereplyto@xxxxxxxxx>, who was all, 'You go girl,' and then went:


> 'Others who went out of their way to offer help were turned down,
> such as Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, who told reporters his
> city had offered emergency, medical and technical help as early as
> last Sunday to FEMA but was turned down. Only a single tank truck
> was requested, Daley said. Red tape kept the American Ambulance
> Association from sending 300 emergency vehicles from Florida to
> the flood zone, according to former senator John Breaux (D-La.)
> They were told to get permission from the General Services
> Administration. "GSA said they had to have FEMA ask for it,"
> Breaux told CNN. "As a result they weren't sent".
>
> [ . . . ]
>
> ' "It's such an irony I hate to say it, but we have less
> capability today than we did on September 11," said a veteran FEMA
> official involved in the hurricane response. "We are so much less
> than what we were in 2000," added another senior FEMA official.
> "We've lost a lot of what we were able to do then".'
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/03/AR2
> 005090301653_pf.html
>
>



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