FEMA is broke and can't help disaster victims?

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Indoctrinated federal pinheads have zero common sense nor critical thinking skills. Most have never been in the field. Just mindless drones following orders from other mindless drones to implement nonsense green and dei policies over actually doing the mission.

Anyone with common sense would know that battery/electric powered tools are dumb in a disaster. Not just from lack of power, but from being tethers to a power source. Gas tools are mobile, instantly rechargeable. A few gallons of petrol can last far longer than even the newest battery tech.

Yup. Amazing when people jump to conspiracy when really, its a combination...

You have a majority of two kinds of employees in the kind of entity that FEMA is:

1. Young fresh-faced interns that are fresh out of school and need some checkboxes checked but have no common sense.

2. Old MF curmugeons that ultimately settled into gov work for the stability because they are not competative or bright enough for the commercial side.

To couple it together, these gov agencies are primarily great at inefficiency. I hesitate to call it entirely unnecessary, it's just something that comes about as a by-product of unnecessary people developing justification for ongoing employment. On the commercial side, fat is trimmed for profitability. On the gov side, especially depending on how they contract (Cost+ for instance), the ongoing development of justification for continued employment ultimately results in ongoing hiring of unnecessary people whom then have to stretch to create their own necessity for sake of job stability, which ultimately creates a feedback loop of inefficiencies requiring additional employees that, while yes, they do work, don't accomplish much per capita in the sense of a narrow mission.

Example: Health and safety in an agency that is office jobs develops a lot of programs and training, lots of reports and meetings, lots of metrics, tracking, meetings, etc....

At the end of the day, 12 people would be replaced by one in a commercial setting. That doesn't mean the dozen people are lazy.

If you want a correct, appropraite response in a very short timeframe, you want the one guy. The dozen WILL fuck it up between all the meetings, metrics, hands in the pie, reports, sign-offs, etc.

And FEMA is not just a dozen. It's a couple thousand.

Reminds me of project management guys in agencies. Want to take something that two guys could finish in three weeks and legitimately make it take two years? Project management, FTW.

I'm amazed chainsaws were delivered at all, to be honest. Could've easily been a 20 pallets of tampons and toothpaste instead.