View Full Version : FEMA And The Gulf Coast Disaster


MrNaPaLm32
03-08-2007, 08:57 PM
I strongly believe that FEMA has done an absolutely atrocious job aiding those in the states where hurricanes hit on the gulf coast of the United States. I think they have failed in absolutely every way possible. During the flooding, during the post-flood aftermath, and the ongoing problem with homeless individuals. FEMA bought over 28,000 mobile housing units to provide for the homeless, who still exist in large numbers, and yet only about 5,000 are in use. And on top of that, FEMA is SELLING them. with thousands still homeless.

This is absurd. What do you guys think? I think some people need to get fired and reforms need to be made.

Heyyou27
03-09-2007, 05:29 PM
While I agree that FEMA didn't do as it was supposed to, anytime you have to rely on the government for help during a disaster, you're already have a problem; people ignored the warnings, and choose to live there in the first place. It should not be the federal government's responsibility, nor my own as an American tax payer to pay for people who choose to live in dangerous areas who are hit yearly with these types of storms.

Natus Lumen
03-16-2007, 04:55 PM
I can see where Heyyou is coming from, but it's terribly incompassionate to force people to leve their homes and find a new, maybe not as good home when the only other option is to go homeless. I think that Bush's FEMA is about the most incompetent buch of fools trying to accomplish a goal that I have ever seen and I think Bill Clinton's FEMA is sitting at home shaking their heads and sighing at Bush's. There needs to be someone in the white house to step up and prioritize all these things, but at the same time, the problem could be a lot smaller if people had listened to what the government had said in the first place.