Wake up Washington

I read an article this morning regarding FEMA, It quotes the Chief of Homeland Security in a new Preparedness Directorate saying, that the next director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency should have experience managing emergencies.

Apparently George Foresman, undersecretary for preparedness at Homeland Security had a discussion with the DHS secretary and deputy secretary. They were confident that the person appointed FEMA director "will have the appropriate credentials" to reassure Congress and the public.

Huh? Washington never ceases to amaze me. They are the only place in America that will take an individual who has never worked within a given field, neither trained for nor ever even received training and make them the director of it.

Sort of along the lines with taking a vet, who never served in a combat unit and make them Secretary of Defense. (Gee that has never happened) Then when a catastrophic situation occurs in which nothing goes according to plan they begin their self-investigation into why it failed. Here is a tip; the boss had no idea what the hell he was doing! That’s why it failed.

This is along the same lines and makes a s much sense as taking a line-cook in the commissary and making them head of the Federal Aviation Administration, or a janitor and making them Secretary of State.

What is wrong with this picture? No experience, no training, no education and something always goes wrong, fails, does not work or is so fouled up it takes an army of experts to sort it out.

Just because someone is a great person and supported the politics that be, or worked their butts off in the primaries does not give them the qualifications to operate an agency. This has been a problem with government as far back as remembered. Granted, there have been success stories. But the fact remains that education and experience should play a part in at least some of the cabinet positions and the majority of positions that are in the same category as FEMA.

Wake up Washington, before more goes wrong.