[lit-ideas] Re: Fairness Piece
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 08:54:54 -0400
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The Family Research Council is one of the most conservative groups and I was
around when they were being formed...remembering the grassroots efforts and the
planning, now, makes me pause. Though Tony Perkins, actually, is one of the
more 'balanced' souls involved in that group, it is still stunning to see them
facing and acknowledging the difficulties of working with FEMA
A.A. Why was FEMA not difficult to work with for other administrations? Maybe
because Bush sets the tone for not caring about the country? He downsized and
wants to privatize FEMA. Before Bush, when government was solvent, FEMA was an
effective agency. Today, government is bloated and insolvent, and FEMA
suddenly is bureaucratic.
Maybe there is hope, but not before Bush is gone.
Andy Amago
Maybe there is hope, yet...
Best,
Marlena in Missouri
?CHURCH / STATE? RED TAPE HINDERING RELIEF EFFORTS
Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council reported this afternoon that, at
one site in Louisiana alone, there are hundreds of volunteers forming "chainsaw
brigades" to remove fallen trees, clearing the paths for relief and repair
efforts. He has also observed firsthand the bureaucratic obstacles in working
with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Red Cross. While
FEMA has directly asked churches to become shelters for victims of Hurricane
Katrina, yet they are offering no support to these churches because of their
general reluctance to work with "uncertified" faith-based organizations.
Survivors are sleeping on church floors while thousands of cots are reportedly
unused in FEMA warehouses, due to red tape. The Red Cross, in turn, is
reluctant to work with non-FEMA-approved organizations. In the meantime the
churches carry on with their mission, as they always have. Please open up your
hearts and go to prccompassion or katrinaresponse or other sites you a
re aware of to donate supplies or whatever you can directly to the effort.
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