Sunday, September 18, 2005
Even the 3 Stooges could have done better.
The Washington Post has a rundown of the continuing confusion in the disaster relief efforts. If nothing else, this great mess shows the need for an overarching Federal control of the effort.
"I don't see much evidence of overall planning and guidance," said Richard Murray, a public policy expert in Houston, which is hosting thousands of evacuees.I do believe that P.J.O'Rourke said it best: "Republicans keep telling us that government doesn't work, and then they get elected and prove it."
In an e-mail, Murray, who is director of the University of Houston's Center for Public Policy, wrote: "Couple a multi-state disaster of Katrina's magnitude, (including some of the poorer and less well-governed states in the union), add on a dysfunctional federal bureaucracy that had deteriorated in recent years, and a chief executive whose motto seemed to be, until yesterday, the buck stops there, and we get a helluva mess."
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