[lit-ideas] Re: Fairness Piece
- From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 13:27:36 EDT
I keep reading & hearing about the mobile hospitals, cots, etc., that
aren't permitted to go into NO because of "red tape". Now I'm not a stranger
to
red tape, dealing with billing Medicare for our clients, but does anyone know
what exactly kind of red tape is stopping these emergency measures? I just
keep imagining what kinds of forms and so forth would need to be processed,
copied, faxed, signed and I don't know what in the world they would be. I
have
some far-fetched ideas but they're pretty out-in-left-field.
Julie Krueger
Whose Mother used to say "If God gave people a brain they'd take it out and
play with it."
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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
âCHURCH / STATEâ 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" fa ith-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_
(http://pull.xmr3.com/p/476-6EC2/53410803/http-prccompassion-.html) or
_katrinaresponse_
(http://pull.xmr3.com/p/476-6D02/53410806/http-www.katrinaresponse.net-.html)
or other sites you are aware of
to donate supplies or whatever you can directly to the effort.
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