bureaucracy is a wonderful thing!

Well, I said I wasn’t going to write anymore about Hurricane Katrina and the monkeyfuck of an aftermath she left behind. Unfortunately, I find government mismanagement is a <"never-ending source of ire. And if it’s not bad enough, that the bloated bureaucracy is preventing the receipt of foodstuffs to people who might die tomorrow (or next week) without it, what about this documented case of FEMA mismanagement— forbidding a physician from administering CPR on someone who would very likely die immediately without it, on the basis that said physician had not registered with FEMA. There were no “registered” persons able to give aid in this situation.

FEMA’s response:

“We have a cadre of physicians of our own,” FEMA spokesman Kim Pease said Thursday. “They are the National Disaster Medical Team. … The voluntary doctor was not a credentialed FEMA physician and, thus, was subject to law enforcement rules in a disaster area.”

To quote Milton Friedman: “You can always excpect government to behave exactly like government.” (or something like that)

Ladies and gentlemen, this is what bureaucracy does. This is all it is capable of doing, and all it ever will do.