That has been my point all along about the size and structure of the federal bureaucracy. There are too damn many agencies, too many paper-pushers, too many heads to the hydra.
Last I saw there were over 50,000 National Guard and active duty Army and Marines in the disaster zone along the Gulf Coast. Add in Coast Guard, local and state police, firefighters, and relief workers and I heard some huge number of people were involved in the effort- well over 100,000, I think. So who is in charge of all those folks? The Pentagon manages the Army and Marines. The Coast Guard and FEMA are managed by Homeland Security. The National Guard are managed by the governor of each state. Local and state officials - police, firefighters, etc. - are managed at the local and state level by their own agencies. Then you have a slew of private relief agencies- the Red Cross, for instance- with their own command structures and private management. Normally, coordinating all of these folks in a single effort would not be an issue, but the vastness of the devastation has created a challenge that the bureacracy clearly wasn't ready to handle. >I want to drop the subject and get back to work. But take a look at this.... >and there are a thousand marines down there and nobody is giving them a >mission. For God's sake. >http://www.nola.com/weblogs/nola/ > >-- >...as scenes of horror that seemed to be coming from some third world >country flashed before us, official Washington was like a dog watching >television. It saw the lights and images but did not seem to comprehend >their meaning or see any link to reality - Bob Schieffer, Face the Nation, >9/4/2005 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:172812 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
