The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is an organization that has gone past its sell-by date and should be shut down. That may seem a surprising statement to some; the primary (I would say, only) legitimate role of government is the protection of the liberty and property of the citizens, and surely the “protection” portion of that includes warnings of, and recovery from, natural and man-made disasters, yes? And isn’t that what FEMA does?
Supposedly. If that’s the case, of course, then every natural disaster before 1979 must have gone ignored and unattended, as before then, FEMA didn’t exist. But that’s not the primary argument for shutting FEMA down; the primary reason is that the agency has gone rogue, and they are committing horrendous wastes of taxpayer money.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has mismanaged tens of billions of dollars over…
