Can FEMA Be Saved?
The roll of FEMA has been debated over the past few years, especially after Hurricane Katrina. Here is an interesting article from the Washington Post (via Fire Engineering) about the future of FEMA.
Who should be in charge of domestic disasters in the United States? Should power be centralized in the White House or spread out to civilian agencies, the military and the states? And for what kinds of emergencies should FEMA prepare -- a nuclear strike, terrorists using weapons of mass destruction, or natural disasters?"Spinning off FEMA doesn't really get to the root of the real problems," said Frank J. Cilluffo, director of George Washington University's Homeland Security Policy Institute and a former special assistant to President Bush. "It's a politically expedient solution . . . that would give a false sense of security that FEMA was 100 percent effective."
Good points. Read the article to get a sense of where things are headed. Whatever happens to FEMA will directly affect the USFA which in turn will have an impact on the AFG program.
Posted June 28, 2006 09:16 AM · Link
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