FEMA's failure was philosophical in nature

I was watching Abramoff so closely yesterday I didn't make the normal rounds and I missed alot of good blogging. Lesson learned.

Motherlode picked this one up, a Rolling Stone piece on the failures of FEMA.

So, too, is the fact -- now plain for all to see -- that the Department of Homeland Security, the arm of the federal government responsible for ensuring our safety in times of national emergency, has become little more than an arm of big business, a radical experiment in President Bush's brand of market-based government......

Bush appointed inexperienced friends to top posts, outsourced essential government services to the party's corporate backers and gave anti-terrorism programs priority over everything else, including disaster preparedness. Homeland Security became the only federal agency ever designed to hollow out government and enrich an administration's corporate cronies.

With scandal after scandal, the older ones seem to be forgotten. Katrina was only five months ago, but since then there has been so much.