[Rhodes22-list] POLITICS - When The Levy Breaks

[michael meltzer]

I do lot of systems design, so I look at how systems
work and the players in them, and how they interact.
Spend alot of time debugging them :)

FEMA had a problem that they were "fighting the last
war", i.e. 911, mind set, spending, they forgot about
mother natrue. It lead to a bad system design, for
that he should be fired. The "top level" players in
these systems are vision, leardship and a visable
"interface" for people to see. They are long
range/long time line actors, they can have some short
term effect by "being unhappy" and trafering risk to
them selfs(i.e making a desion) but.... If they were
all shot on monday it should not have made a
differance to the responce. What I think we are going
to find when this "onion" is peeled is the GS10-GS13
level the system broke down, truff wars, stove pipe
problems, No clear chain of responiable, worst let
working outside thier desion cycle(norimaly months and
commitee considance) vs "on the spot" and "right now"
that they were put in. Also to make life "esyier" for
middle mangers allot of these agaiscy have become
simply contracting sorces to outside vendors without
resource of thier own. 

-mjm

--- ghpnn at bellsouth.net wrote:

> So sorry, but you got it backwards. The President
> writes the budget and submits it to Congress for
> approval. President Bush submitted the budget which
> cut $71,000,000 out of the Corps of Engineers'
> budget for levee work in New Orleans this year. He
> also appointed a lawyer wuth no emergency management
> experience as the head of FEMA, the federal
> emergency managment agency. Is he responsible for
> his actions?
> > 
> > From: Hank <hnw555 at gmail.com>
> > Date: 2005/09/07 Wed PM 01:03:06 EDT
> > To: The Rhodes 22 mail list
> <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> > Subject: Re: Re: [Rhodes22-list] POLITICS - When
> The Levy Breaks
> > 
> > All this talk about Pres Bush cutting the budget
> is factually inaccurate. 
> > Congress creates the budget. The President then
> either approves or 
> > disapproves. Talk to your congressmen and
> Senators, not the President about 
> > appropriated funding.
> >  Hank
> > 
> >  On 9/7/05, ghpnn at bellsouth.net
> <ghpnn at bellsouth.net> wrote: 
> > > 
> > > The head of FEMA is a political appointee, a
> lawyer, with no disaster 
> > > management experience. President Bush cut
> $71,000,000 from the budget of the 
> > > Corps of Engineers in New Orleans which was
> earmarked for levee work this 
> > > year. Is he responsible for these two actions?
> > > 
> > > Hugh Penn
> > > 
> > >
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