FEMA is not the only Miss-Managed Agency

Five of eight top Federal Emergency Management Agency officials came to their posts with virtually no experience in handling disasters.

FEMA's top three leaders arrived with ties to President Bush's 2000 campaign or to the White House advance operation, according to the agency. A former Republican lieutenant governor of Nebraska and a U.S. Chamber of Commerce official who was once a political operative fills two other senior operational jobs.

Patronage appointments to the crisis-response agency are nothing new to Washington administrations. But, inexperience in FEMA's top ranks is emerging as a key concern of local, state and federal leaders as investigators begin to sift through what the government has admitted was a bungled response to Hurricane Katrina.

Many agencies, at almost every level of government, hire family, friends, and large donation contributors rather than experienced professionals to run key government institutions.

There is not a State, County, City, or Village exempt from this abominable behavior. How many other tragedies are lurking that unqualified people will try to manage?
My guess is; MANY...

The New Orleans fiasco was not an issue of race. It is an issue of mismanagement, incompetence, and leadership failure.