As if Michael Brown’s well-known lack of experience managing disasters wasn’t enough, here’s a really scary story about FEMA inspectors who have criminal records. “FEMA’s contract inspectors personally inspect and verify the claims. ? Our contract inspectors are our first line of accountability,” said Dan Craig, director of FEMA’s disaster recovery programs. [snip] The newspaper …

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That man recited the phrase “Government isn’t the solution. Government is the problem.” Ever since then the Republicans and many Democrats have run campaigns based on that idiotic philosophy. It never made sense to me anyway; if you hate the government, why try so hard and spend so much of other people’s money to get …

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