Scrapping FEMA

This fits in quite well with Republican efforts to destroy the government (our ability to control our own destiny). Calls to scrap FEMA are really about the radical republican agenda of governmental destruction coupled with a desire to recreate a buraucracy that looks, on the surface, as a new agency to help people. In reality any new agency will be designed to funnel US tax payer dollars into the hands of corporations or NGO's answerable to no one. That is what will happen if FEMA goes away. They will attempt to subcontract it out (money launder) to the point where it will be impossible to know where all the money went. Just look at Iraq.

All that is needed for FEMA is to restore it to a cabinet level position and staff it with people who know what they are doing instead of political cronies.

I wish this were simply a conspiracy theory and nonsense. But saddly it is par for the course. Here is what Grover Norquist had to say about the American peoples ability to control their own destiny...

"My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.”

Again who is he talking about? Well in the United States of America the Government is We The People. So when men like Norquist talk about making us less dependant on ourselves who are we being dependant on? Hmmm? Norquist, like most neo-cons, or simply cons, is basically an anarchist. He believes in the principle that he and his freinds should be left alone to do as they please. This is conservatism distilled down to its simplest form. His way of thinking is objectivist in the extreme and is unworkable in the real world. Like the lunatic Ayn Rand, in Norquists world, everyone is a worker or captain of industry. This is not the real word. There will always be millions of people either unable to be captains of industry or unable to work. Societies that ignore the millions that fall through the craks make the cracks bigger and bigger until you end up with a society akin to Somolia. The rich a terrified and armed to the teeth, the poor or terrified and armed to the teeth. There is no structure left to govern the baser nature of man, so the anarchic state devolves into a failed state. This is the end game for Norquist and the neocons. It is plain to see if you simply take their stated goals and think far enough down the line. Norquist and his ilk are an ill wind blowing up from a damned future.