[StBernard] Stupid FEMA Tricks
Westley Annis
westley at da-parish.com
Thu Jun 29 23:23:02 EDT 2006
Just remeber its alway, they said, he said, or its policy. That is until
you want to talk to they, he/she or let me have a copy of the policy. Then
it becomes a completely different story.
Personally, most of what has taken place is a big scham.
George
>-----------------------------------------------------
>This is in response to the article about rebuilding the schools from a
>few days ago.
>
>Quotes from the article:
>"Donors showered St. Bernard with enough supplies to fill a spare
>classroom floor-to-ceiling and FEMA will cover 90% of rebuilding. But
>Voitier can't financed the other 10% - strict rules forbid using other
>relief money to make up the 10%."
>
>"She says the rules sometimes border on comical: After she put together
>the laundromat - a fire marshal had declared the trailer unfit for
>classroom use
>- FEMA reported her for misusing federal property."
>
>As long as it is not FEMA money, who cares how they make up the other 10%?
>This is like telling a man dying of thirst in the desert, I'll give you
>all the water you can drink, but first you must have a Waterford
>Crystal Goblet to drink it from. It just seems at times you need to
>have "three Philadelphia lawyers" with you at all times when dealing with
FEMA.
>
>I wish the article gave the name of the fire marshal. I would love to
>know who declared for all that you cannot use a Laundromat for a classroom.
>From
>what little I can see, it looks like there was no intention to use it
>as a classroom to begin with.
>
>Perhaps we should start sending letters to the editor. Don't give us
>positions without giving us names. Who is this genius of a fire marshal?
>
>By the same token, who is FEMA? SBA?
>
>Collectively, I think we need to stop accepting a generic answer, "The
>rules say we can't do this." Everything FEMA and SBA does is governed
>either by a Congressionally passed law or an Executive Order signed by
>the President, usually the former. Last time I checked, it was all
>public record (I realize some Executive Orders are sealed, but I can't
>see how anything pertaining to FEMA or SBA would be considered
>something that needs to be sealed).
>
>Don't accept handbooks as a final answer any more. Ask for the law
>that governs any decision made by FEMA, HUD, or SBA and look it up
>yourself. If it is too complicated to understand, ask others. If need
>be, visit one of the local law schools.
>
>Until someone starts questioning their interpretations, we don't know
>if they are right. If they are right, but stupid, we can then working
>on getting them changed.
>
>Westley
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