Former state legislator puts blame directly on Nagin and Blanco

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Originally Posted by PornoDoggy

To borrow from a campaign slogan, compare the response of FEMA in September, 2001, to the response in September, 2005, and ask yourself this - "Are we better off today than we were four years ago?"

My knee-jerk response would be a resounding "NO", because of the state of affairs with New Orleans (which is taking center-stage at the moment).
But then I look at how aid was implemented in Mississippi and I think "well, hold on... they were in action pretty quickly there."

We've got something like 90,000 square miles of devastation spread out over multiple states with multiple heads of state and city officials each having to request or give permission for aid/troops/etc to come in.

Too many cooks in the kitchen? The process should be streamlined? If we do streamline it, do we risk opening loopholes for government takeover at some point in the far-off (and possibly never) future?