Dana Mathewson

This man has some very intelligent comments about the government's response to Harvey as opposed to Katrina. I thought you might like to see them. He also excoriated the media, but we needn't concern ourselves with that -- we all know the media are determined not to say anything good about the president.

"I hate to defend the federal government, but in this case, I shall. There are two, maybe three, main differences between the federal government’s reaction this time than in Katrina. The first is the law was changed to allow FEMA and other agencies to pre-position material and get moving in advance of being requested by the governor. The second is that this time the mayor and governor both had plans for lesser disasters that could be used as a foundation for this disaster and were not trying to make the President look bad and worked with the federal government to ask for aid in a timely manner. The possible third is that there seems to be better coordination among federal agencies than there was last time. Partly a lessons learned thing, and partly a President who is more used to pulling together lots of different elements for large projects. (Not to put down President Bush, but his business experience was different.)"

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