FEMA needs to go.

According to the statement from Senators on Thursday, Hurricane Katrina turned FEMA in a symbol of a bumbling bureaucracy and it should be scrapped. Personally I don’t feel Katrina turned FEMA into a symbol, I feel it had been living on borrowed time for many years and Katrina only served to bring this bureaucratic trash into the eyes of the media and showed it for what it truly was – a nightmare.

FEMA should be replaced and it should be accomplished quickly before anyone else has the misfortune of having to deal with it. The agency has no idea what is going on in this country and no concept of how to handle things if a catastrophe occurs again and if history has taught us anything, it is the fact that it is not if, it is when.

Documents and transcripts released from the onset of Hurricane Katrina has proved beyond any reasonable doubt that not only did the powers that be have prior knowledge of what was happening, not one of them took any action to prevent the tragedy that was the final outcome. Something must be done to correct this and insure it never happens again and this something needs to be done now, not after twenty government panels have studied the problem, now.

The citizens of that state are still scattered about the country trying to figure out what to do and how to begin anew while the people that stayed are hoping it never happens again. Washington needs to get off their collective “pass the blame” butts and take action to insure FEMA is placed out to pasture and a new agency with the proper people, resources and knowledge to handle a problem replaces them.