Re: FEMA Chief - totally unqualified?? NBC

[Gooserider]

"Sock Puppet" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> On 4-Sep-2005, Rich <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> Neil Brooks wrote:
>> > Yikes.
>> >
>> > http://snipurl.com/hfjo
>> >
>> > NEW YORK So who is Michael Brown, now catching all kinds of criticism
>> > for his handling of the catastrophe in New Orleans? It seems his
>> > primary career experience before nabbing a Federal Emergency
>> > Management Agency (FEMA) post was running a Arabian horse association.
>> > An article by Matt Stearns and Seth Borenstein for Knght Ridder
>> > Newspapers observes, "there was little in Michael D. Brown's
>> > background to prepare him for the fury of Hurricane Katrina."
>>
>> FEMA was for the most part was dismantled under the Bush Admin. Below
>> is an article I got via email (if I know the URL I'd have posted that).
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> Some of us have been saying for the last 4-1/2 years that the bush
> administration is a bunch of incompetent ideologues.
>
> TOLD YOU SO!
>
That is true, but you cannot absolve the New Orleans government of it's
incompetence. New Orleans has been a hotbed of corruption and crime for a
LONG time. Nagin is just the latest incompetent.