Re: [Fwd: The Mind Continues to Boggle]

In article <11huvk265u88i31@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Bob (this one)" <Bob@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: The Mind Continues to Boggle
> Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 18:47:02 -0400
> From: Josh Hill <usereplyto@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: joshuaphill@xxxxxxxxx
> Newsgroups: misc.writing
>
> '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/AR200509030165
> 3_pf.html

Total control yields total paralysis.

Perhaps enabling local response is the way to go.

If you see a problem fix the MTF.

Bill

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