Originally Posted By: Jeff_McCann


Not to be political, but the current administration has done a pretty good job of trashing the nations ability to respond catastrophic emergencies. This started with the creation of the Department of Homeland Security and the massive bureaucratic reshuffling that entailed. Add funding problems, inexperienced and unqualified political appointees, privatization of key functions to wholly inept contractors, etc, and you end up with an entirely different sort of disaster.



I'll just say +10 to what Jeff just posted on this. Unless you're in it, you can't begin to imagine how much the bureaucrats have mucked things up. I have long been aware that if I actually followed all of the regulations that are imposed on us by DHS, NFPA, OSHA, NIOSH and the rest we would not be able to respond to a call, but we'd have a really nice powerpoint slide show and a 25 page report on why we didn't show up for the call.