I agree with that 1% to the point to where the politicians do lip service.
If FEMA was treated like a normal business, than they would have been thrown out on their collective asses.
But it can never be a matter of that.
There is the blame game also, which gets attatched to partisan politics.
There are stone cold partisan types that help people in a time of need all the time.
But the finger gets pointed at them because of their philosophies.
There was a rererrendum in the 1950's by a Republican upstart congressman from Kansas named Bob Dole that created a bill so Hospitals and Public establishments would not be whites only.
Al Gore Senior lead the opposition to that bill.
I don't have to agree with all of the conservative politics to understand the beauty in some of their beliefs, just like the liberals.
But there is so much piss and vinegar, I don't know if civilization can hold up through that for very long.
I think that a vice president should be one from the losing candidate of the other party.
An example, if Senator Lieberman as the vice president of Bush.
That would have taken out a lot of the divisiveness.
But that would resemble a parliamentary system many would say.
Maybe in our current political climate that would be the best approach.
There is a time for capitalism and a time for socialism.
Even the best type of system can't get away from that.
It seems to be a matter of a time and need for it.
And unfortunately, there is not an emphasis on that.