FEMA ranks at bottom of public approval.
By on Dec 20th, 2007 at 6:24 pm
FEMA ranks at bottom of public approval.
In a public approval poll of federal agencies, FEMA came in last, followed by the IRS. Two years after the disastrous response to Hurricane Katrina, FEMA’s distribution of toxic trailers was labeled one of the top ten worst ethics scandals of 2007, and the agency’s staged press conference ranked as the year’s top PR blunder.
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I'd ask the American people for help before I would
December 20th, 2007 at 6:32 pmask FEMA. Now they said you should learn from
the pass. Bush waited 5 days to acknowledge the Blacks in Katrina needed help. Let's see the
American people and foreign countries acted
quickly. Thousands died within the fives days or
got shot. I'll take my changes with the American
people and foreign countries. Look even Putin
give help before Bush. If I waited on FEMA or
Homeland Security or the White House I'd be
800 years old before they sent the memo for help.
Does approval rating really mean anything anymore? We can't get anyone in Congress to consider what is right for The People so, sorry, rankings are completely meaningless. If they did mean anything, the Congress would actually do something other than let a minority stall everything.
It's sickening what has happened to our country.
December 20th, 2007 at 6:50 pmi thought brownie did a heckuva job......i just don't get why everyone is upset with the death trap in louisana, staged press conferences to hide lies....gotcha! monies missing......o and can't forget the 2,000 dolla checks given to rebuild lives......i still don't get it.....seems it was as smooth as creme bruilee
December 20th, 2007 at 6:50 pm"FEMA ranks at bottom of public approval."
And that's the good news.
December 20th, 2007 at 6:53 pmHeckova job, Brownie!
December 20th, 2007 at 7:14 pmThe Bush administration has set the bar pretty low, this is what you get with cronyism and privatization of government services.
Heck of a job Bushie.
Bush/Cheney
Hague Trails '09
Buck Fush
December 20th, 2007 at 7:20 pmOff topic but interesting - mea culpa for digressing on this but check it out: Bloomberg and Hagel talking about a run in 08! Where's that idiot troll Joneser so I can rub his face in it?
December 20th, 2007 at 7:20 pmhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/12/20/bloomberg-and-hagel-holdi_n_77734.html
How interesting would that combination be in 08?? It's got to have people like Hillary & Obama shaking in their boots. Bloomberg would take no money from any special interest group, ergo no one would own him if he's elected. And, Chuck Hagel, being a Republican would certainly pull in progressive republicans who are sick and tired of Bush and a continuation of his war mongering foreign policy. Could be an interesting combo.
December 20th, 2007 at 7:22 pmI think the 08 election will be like none other where the Independents (now 44% in New Hampshire) and 36% nationally will have their voices heard - finally a party Of the People, For the People, and By the People - something we haven't seen in a very long time.
December 20th, 2007 at 7:23 pmAnd there are a lot of disgruntled Democrats out there just waiting for the primaries to pass so they can have their say in who gets the nomination. Bloomberg/Hagel would be interesting but not nearly as uniting as a Gore/Bloomberg ticket could be.
December 20th, 2007 at 7:25 pmLook folks...
Y'all are still acting as if we, the Americans, matter.
Obviously shoring up the levee was a bad business decision. Just like letting all thems negroes come back to their OWN homes is also bad bidness. I think them in power should think of bringing in the Blackwater boys, so them boys can help out beat up them uppity black grandmas mouthing off that they are blocked from living on their OWN land.
Us elites hates them uppity negroes. Git back to yer trailer, negroes! Inhale the fumes, and die off! Heck, it almost worked for that german moustache guy, ain't tat the truth now?
http://americangoy.myblogsite.com/
December 20th, 2007 at 7:28 pmComment by Tracy2 — December 20, 2007 @ 7:26 pm
The Great Goresby HAS SHINED!
F. Scott Fitzgerald must be warming in his grave.
December 20th, 2007 at 7:30 pmit will be YEARS, possibly a generation or more, before FEMA, to say nothing of the SC(R)OTUS, the Congress, the Coast Guard, the Smithsonian, the CDC, and the whole panoply of USer institutions which it was their JOB to destroy and discredit, escape the obloquy and ignominy to which they have descended under the tender ministrations of the pro-CorporoRat, fascistic Bush cabal.
December 20th, 2007 at 7:32 pmI still remember that after its spectacular performance dealing with the effects of Hurricane Rita in Florida FEMA was held in very high regard. Of course, that was when a competent president was running things.
December 20th, 2007 at 7:36 pmTracy, thanks. I think you're right. Rita was the recent one which hit Texas.
December 20th, 2007 at 7:51 pmMost people think FEMA's main job is to deal with natural disasters. Wrong.
Everything you ever wanted to know about FEMA but were afraid to ask is here.
http://www.freedomfiles.org/war/fema.htm
FWIW, FEMA arrived in NYC on 9/10/2001 in preparation for a biowarfare excercise called Tripod II scheduled to begin on 9/12 (not to be confused with the FEMA urban search and rescue teams who came after 9/11). More support for the Coincidence Therorists.
December 20th, 2007 at 7:55 pmThe effectiveness of FEMA is a great way to compare the approach of the two parties. Since modern Repubs don't really believe in civil government, they tend to make appointments strictly on the basis of patronage with less concern for the job itself. That's how you get a guy like Brownie or Bernie Kerik.
Democrats generally believe in civil government and take it more seriously so they tend to think more in terms of the job itself. That's why Clinton would appoint a disaster management expert like James Lee Witt to head FEMA. FEMA worked a lot better under an expert's management and now Witt travels around the world giving seminars in disaster management.
December 20th, 2007 at 7:56 pmMiMiCccs, that's pretty scary stuff. Whom do you think would fill these camps and under what pretense. That is, what legal mechanism would a government use to justify putting citizens in these camps? Understand, I'm not arguing with you that this is impossible - we did it to Japanese Americans - I'm just wondering what you think is going on here.
December 20th, 2007 at 8:01 pmAnd the IRS with their BS tax system is tied for last. Heckova job Congress stealing from the American people.
December 20th, 2007 at 8:18 pmComment by Tracy2
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So Tracy, you think that paying income taxes is "stealing from the American people". What do you think about all the contractors in Iraq who have been paid for work they never did. Do you think that is stealing from the American taxpayers?
In case you guys haven't noticed, we have a new troll named Tracy2. Should be fun goring this one.
December 20th, 2007 at 8:20 pmAt least Tracy was kind enough to correct me on the hurricane names. That seems rather civil to me.
December 20th, 2007 at 8:22 pmOff topic but interesting - mea culpa for digressing on this but check it out: Bloomberg and Hagel talking about a run in 08! Where’s that idiot troll Joneser so I can rub his face in it?
Joneser won't like that. That combination is more likely to pull votes from the Republiscums than from the Democrats. Bloomberg isn't exactly a flaming Liberal and Hagel may have some backbone when it comes to Iraq, but otherwise he's pretty much a straight ticket Republiscum.
December 20th, 2007 at 8:22 pmAt least Tracy was kind enough to correct me on the hurricane names. That seems rather civil to me.
Comment by Ret. Col. Jack Ripper
Just wait, it has been around before. Unless it is someone new with that moniker, you will find out soon what side of the fence it is on and I don't remember it to be a civil troll.
December 20th, 2007 at 8:24 pmI agree with bilbo, Bloomberg/Hagel would really take votes away from the Republican candidate. Their voters are not satisfied with Giuliani, Romney, or Huckabee.
It was funny on "Democracy Now" today when a New Orleans resident who lost her home in the projects said "They don't want no more projects. They want CONDOMS."
December 20th, 2007 at 8:58 pmCan we have two votes because, luckily, FEMA does not touch most of our lives. The TSA is an unmitigated disaster and an affront to humanity. So 9/11 happened and we have predictably overreacted. Taking your shoes off is not a small thing, it is ploy to look efficient. One hundred million to one than Richard the Shoe bomber would have been successful in any small way. But we will pay forever in the name of security. Pablum is all that it is. A walk-through screening of the the x-ray is sufficient. Let's modernize the security process and get rid of those extra government (im)positions.
December 20th, 2007 at 9:17 pmGore is too busy saving the world to waste his time to run for president.
Comment by Tracy2 — December 20, 2007 @ 7:26 pm
Yeh, its much more important that we get someone in office that wants to bomb it.
December 20th, 2007 at 10:18 pm"At least Tracy was kind enough to correct me on the hurricane names. That seems rather civil to me."
Oh, Tracy is less than civil.
December 21st, 2007 at 12:47 amread The Shock Doctrine and a little drawing gets it spot on
monday slug mondayslug
December 21st, 2007 at 1:18 amhttp://mondayslug.com/default.asp?a=26
December 21st, 2007 at 1:18 amThe funny thing to me is that I can understand why the IRS will necessarily always hold a low approval rating - their job is to collect money from me. Even if they do it very nicely and I understand that taxes are the price we pay for government services, I'll never really like having my money taken.
But FEMA is there to give me assistance when I need it. They are the knights in white armor charging into a disaster area to save me. How could they ever get a low opinion rating ?
(for the thick headed - no need to explain it to me).
December 21st, 2007 at 10:47 am