Hearken unto The Rude Pundit
The Rude Pundit is always insightful, and usually hilariously profane. Today he keeps it clean, and gives us an illuminating "compare and contrast" essay on FEMA - Clinton era vs. Bush era.
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So apparently, under James Lee Witt in 1997 and then under Michael Brown's college roommate and boss, Joe Allbaugh, in 2002, FEMA laid out two very different long-term plans for how the agency was to improve and how its success was to be measured. What becomes evident is a stark contrast between the Clinton-era emphasis on saving people and communities as goals in and of themselves and how the Bush administration's FEMA sees itself as serving "customers."
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