FEMA's Brown Was Warned Early of Shortages

gotcha prose.

the reason nothing works is, among other dysfunctions, that intra-agency goals come first in every agency ever created on earth.

when that happens, if the agency has to turn a profit, it simply disappears, having lived its useful life.

if it has taxing power, it grows, and it grows by encroaching.

see John Gall _Systemantics_ (best in the original small 1975 edition, before it grew like topsy like every system).

"However, FEMA's systems do not support effective or efficient coordination of deployment operations because there is no sharing of information," the audit found. "Consequently, this created operational inefficiencies and hindered the delivery of essential disaster response and recovery services," it said.