Maria's Death Toll Eclipses Katrina's. THANKS, Dotard.

[Pemalite]

SuaveSocialist said:

Pemalite said:
As someone who is in the Emergency Services... It's not as simple as "Give more funding".

Trump cannot receive all the blame for the lack of a quality response, it's an issue that goes from top to bottom... From the training that personnel do every day, to the maintenance of vehicles and infrastructure, procurement of new tools, items, PPE... To even the more social side of things like advertising.

Which is precisely why I explained the current state of FEMA in the third-last paragraph, but it's Beloved Leader's responsibility to ensure that FEMA is properly staffed, trained, prepared, and equipped.  He has clearly fallen short of that minimum standard by a wide margin.

 

That's part of Beloved Leader's actual job, so he should pull himself up by the bootstraps, take personal responsibility and do it already.  The warning signs were there when he dragged his ass in appointing the head of the Agency.

 

You will also note I never proposed "more funding", though I did point out that his very first instinct was to defund them in areas necessary for FEMA to live up to its role effectively.

 

Fake leadership.

There is a ton of different levels of management... And sometimes things can take years to change for the better... And sometimes still it takes a (sadly) large catastrophic event for Emergency Services to work out where they fell short and how they could improve, that is regardless of the funding levels you have.

Trump doesn't actually manage the various rungs of Emergency services anymore than our Prime Minister does here, things have simply fallen short at every level over in the USA, which is sad to see.
Even over here we don't always get things right, but we most certainly do learn from it and get better at our jobs for next time.

With that in mind, Trump is far removed from being my favorite person... I am just speaking from my own lived experience that not all the blame can be placed on a singular person, it takes lots of small mistakes to result in a colossal clusterfuck like what has occurred.

And after the fires in California... And now this, I think the USA needs to sit back and take a good long hard look at it's emergency services from top to bottom. - It is literally peoples lives at risk here.