Actually, I don”t at all hate to say I told you so; I was just listening to The Hives on the flight home today.
But loyal readers of The Wisdom will recall that back in December I suggested FEMA has no business managing the housing needs of those displaced by Katrina and the levee failures in New Orleans. Housing assistance, I suggested, should be the domain on an agency such as Housing and Urban Development, and FEMA should focus on actual Emergency Management. It”s the agency”s middle name, after all.
So now legislation has been introduced that proposes just that as part of the FEMA overhaul.
Obviously, I endorse the idea. Get FEMA focused on preparedness and response and put housing help in the pocket of the real social agencies.
Now if the feds would just work on that new hurricane rating system I”ve proposed …
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