FEMA is Lord of Darkess

http://mobile.nytimes.com/article?a=213495&f=19

Last I checked the e in fema stood for emergency, so I have a hard time getting mad at them for not being good at running social service programs three years after Katrina.

On some levels this story is a good one of what happens in a society where personal responsibility is thrown by the wayside. If someone wants thinks they can make $20 thousand a month selling energy drinks over the internet that is their call but I am not sure why I should be paying their rent when they aren't as successful as the infomercial promised. But there are also a lot of little bureaucratic snags far more central to the story than anything FEMA has done - from the woman who can't prove she owns her house following her husband passing away to the man who can't get to any decent job in the city because the public transit system is laughable.