FEMA is very important in their own minds.in my mind they are a bunch of expensive,arrogant,useless people who couldn’t hold a job in the private sector.they never should have been brought into existence in the first place.D.H.S. is in the same category.besides all the previous descriptions,these wannabe commandos are very dangerous to the country.these people are like janet reno who murdered all those children at Waco Tx to save them from being abused.does the govt have a need for these organizations other than to keep their boot on the neck of the people?

One fact is undeniable, if it has “Federal” in the letterhead, and it deals with social issues, it’s F.U.B.A.R.

Do you remember times in your youth and young adult life where someone had you doing some mindless job or “BUSY WORK”! You hated it then when you realized hated this mostly unproductive (usually unpaid) time.
When we find PAID workers to spin their wheels 50% to get 4% productive motion from beaurocrats that are late to respond, half way drill trained and planned by people who would write six sigma standards and require ISO certifications for a 10 year old’s Lemonade Stand, without a thought to the actual mission.
Hurricane Andrew overwhelmed FEMA whiched seemed as “shell-shocked” as the Florida residents. With Katrina, half the nation was likely screaming at the TV coverage of days before someone fired the FEMA “starter’s pistol”. As we saw, people face down in the swirling Mississippi water must be resuscitated within 4 minutes in order to survive. Being out of position for four days is akin to manslaughter. FEMA’s planning and execution was bad under Bush 41 and improved to modern day “Failure”. We loved having the ice filled trucks from New Orleans deliver their vacationing payload to Maine. It is rare indeed to have such unseasonal guest to help tourism.
Judging from some 900+ days in office, anything President Obama and Janet Napolitano are associated with, will need rescue itself. Their hope of salvation will likely come from Fool Every Moron (in) America. Yes, the whole White House and most of the Congress are oblivious to the fact that FEMA needs a FEMA of its own.

Get rid of FEMA!

new orleans and katrina should answer the question is fema viable. we have people so dependent on government they won’t make an effort to help themselves. we are probably still paying for the welfare of thousands of people evacuated from new orleans and transferred to other cities. this is just one glaring example. then to thank the tax payers, in the interim, they looted the city. so i say unless there is an invasion the government should stay out of it. if they turned their effort to protecting our border just think how much better off we would all be today.

Facts overshadow the opinions that the feds can do anything right. The federal Government has established a reinsurance fund of last resort with all casualty insurance companies who pay a premium for stop loss coverage for all disasters covered under policy provisions.Fema and the SBA look to the insurance carriers adjusters to mitigate the claims and subrogate back to the Fema and SBA for repayment of non covered claims. In a major disaster the stop loss agreement goes into affect after a huge deductible paid by the casualty companies completing the losses.Therefore Fema and the SBA become less of a constructive force and the insurance adjusters become a major claims settelment force on the street where the losses occured. Insurance adjusters are highly trained claims specialist that work in the loss world daily. The FEMA people are hired and trained by the bureaucrats that do not have a budget or authority to actually assist in the overal needs of the loss victim. Insurance adjusters have the authority to write checks on the spot, help with housing, food, transportation and most of the needs of their policyholders. They want to keep them by servicing them.Fema has no such mandate. Their policy needs to be not renewed.The uninsureds can be paid by the Fema mandate for social good. That takes a very small unit to handle that repayment to the insurance carriers. Coverage for losses are not an entitlement or a right accept by contract. Fema needs to be downsized and all disaster relief needs are to be consolidated. Stop the waste from overlapping make work programs.

Oh I see its the BiO two step, meaning its just one step and its all the same thing.

People wake up there is ONE party thats the DemoRebo single coin unit party.
Or you could say good cop bad cop – same cop – same story – same day. Its really DC v YOU and DC stands for Globlist Bankers, You means just that, your a piece of Chattel owned by the Globlist Bankers who play Pin Pong with your brains and emotioms.

As FEMA claims to be the almighty answer to all things disastrous, they tell us they have no money to do what they claim they must. Has anyone noticed how FEMA has been reassessing flood maps around the country? Areas that really have little or no flood risk are now a flood risk. And what happens next? The mortgage companies demand flood insurance on the home. Who provides the insurance Policy? FEMA. Who collects the money? The banks that have all partaken of government bribes, er, I mean stimulus money, which they use to beef up their capital numbers.

It is all a con, FEMA needs to go. The banks need to give back our tax dollars. Americans left to their own ingenuity will handle every disaster better that any bloated government bureaucracy ever could.

Well one “benefit” of the terrible Government has been to examine all the socialistic agencies that have been “created” by the bureaucrats over the past 90 or so years. The You Cut project of Eric Cantor is a fine example of searching for waste. I pray the “baptism by fire” we have experienced under Progressive Government will have inspired us to do our work as citizens and “throw the bums out”. The “silent majority” can no longer be silent. After having our calls, faxes, and E-mails ignord our one recourse is to reverse the ugly voting statistics of the Twentieth Century with say a record 80% turnout of eligible voters.

There is nothing I hate worse then seeing a National Response to a Natural Disaster by the head of Homeland Security. It makes me distrust the whole process to begin with. I’m sure homeland security tracks all those who need and get assistance and those who ask and don’t. Nothing like a federal government police entity directing aide during emergencies.

I agree with everyone so far that FEMA should not exist to begin with. If a state needs assistance during national disasters then money should be sent directly to the state from congress. That would require a congressional vote for every disaster. We don’t need to feed a bunch of federal workers.

fema is totaly useless, redundant, and not needed. get rid of fema.

People, people, people. There’s only one issue here. Why make things complicated? That’s what politicians do. Are you politicians, or are you human?
If you want a grade #1, bona fide example of what’s WRONG with relying on Uncle Scam (ala FEMA), ask the good people of Missouri. Do you remember when that state recently suffered a devastating tornado? What was their reaction? Did they beg for FEMA to come and “help” them?
Ask Missouri – and I don’t mean Kansas City or St. Louis. Ask Missouri. THEY are SHOWING America. They’re SHOWING Washington. SCREW FEMA. Stop the bickering. Eliminate FEMA.

For me, I really don’t care how effective FEMA is. Or perhaps how much fraud or waste there is. For me, the real problem is that FEMA should not exist. This is our personal responsibility to help our neighbors in need. Not the responsibility of government. By shoving it off onto government, we now destroy ourselves and our neighbors instead of building up. When Christ told us to love our neighbor as ourself, he did not say “and have government steal from the rich to do this.” When the widow gave her mite, he did not say “and the rich should support her.” He said the widow gave more than them because she gave all she had. Percentage of her income, she had given more than all the rich because she gave everything. They only gave a percentage. He did not say that this then justified taking from the rich. He held up the widow as an example for us to follow, to give all the WE HAVE. Instead we have become a den of thieves, stealing that which is not ours to give to those we choose, justifying it with calls of charity even though the government programs we create for this cause now bind us and those we claim into bonds of slavery. We have surrender our right give personal and true charity to our neighbor ourselves. And our neighbors have had their rights to true charity stolen from them. Sure, there are people that do give and do help with their own money. However, we are shifting further and further from this, even having government fine and regulate true charities out of existence for “safety violations.”