Originally Posted by
Calcoran
Jalu3: Which message? That from Dax, or mine? I did not consider mine political, in the sense that it is just a statement about how things are (admittedly with a feeble attempt at humour), rather than a rant about how things ought to be. That said, if this falls under the moratorium, I'll just keep those statements to myself
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Cybrludite: I just read something on overclockers.com about technology being able to help with a lot of things but not with . I had no idea there was such a thing in the US. I guess this only applies to troops that do not originate from the disaster stricken state. However, this does a lot to explain delays that most of those who are not US citizens had trouble to understand.
That's okay. American Federalism is designed deliberately to strangle the federal governments ability to interfere in local state affairs, as well as check it's ability to change it's own laws. By in large this works out well, but there are certain instances where the whole system falls apart. FEMA and other Federal Level agencies have to be asked to come into a state to assist in disaster and civil disturbance releif operations.
I got this drilled into me when I worked for Public Policy in the Public Safety Division at our Governors office back in 1999. FEMA cannot initate operations until the Governor asks for it. Which is why the President was asking Governor Blanko to ask to get the ball rolling before Katrina hit so the ball could get rolling as soon as the storm passed. The fact that she and the mayor did not put in the request is inexcusable. There's already a movement to impeach both of them over here for incompetence. Fine by me.
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