FEMA still can't perform its principal function on the ground, but by golly it's gonna get its PR act together:
FEMA, realizing the need to shore up its public image, has issued a call for help on the spin front. Butch Kinerney of the FEMA headquarters public affairs office has asked flacks at agencies around the country for help, "especially folks with emergency management backgrounds who can travel quickly to DC and/or to affected areas."Right now, "FEMA will pay for all of your transportation and lodging, but we can't pay your salary," Kinerney said in his e-mail, adding that perhaps "your agency [might be] willing to donate your time and pay your salary."
Your options, he said, would be to "work in relatively comfy FEMA headquarters and stay in a hotel. Or you can sleep in a tent and work out of the trunk of a car in the most stricken areas."
I'm running out of things to say about that agency that are suitable for a family blog.
Posted by Linkmeister at September 19, 2005 03:33 PM | TrackBackHow about their lovely plan to house everyone in mobile homes near Baton Rouge instead of shipping them out to various unoccupied apartments around the country? A million-person mobile home park! Congress is against it (both parties). Even the mobile home manufacturers think it's a dumb idea, because there's no way to make that many. Yet, still FEMA presses on...
Posted by: Solonor at September 19, 2005 04:16 PMThese clowns never read Santayana's line about history.
Hoovervilles did not work out well.
Posted by: Linkmeister at September 19, 2005 04:26 PM