Huckabee would revamp FEMA

From WCF Courier:

• DES MOINES --- Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, speaking on the two-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, said Wednesday that federal disaster relief needs to slash bureaucracy and become more sensitive to victims' needs.
• "When you have a catastrophe, you shouldn't treat people like boxes. They ought to be treated with respect and dignity. You shouldn't put paperwork above people," Huckabee said in a telephone interview.
• One way to cut bureaucracy, Huckabee said, is to make the Federal Emergency Management Agency a free-standing agency that reports directly to the president, instead of its current status as part of the Department of Homeland Security.
• He said his state was overwhelmed by federal bureaucracy after Katrina. Basic decisions needed to go through several levels of approval, which caused a backup in the delivery of services.
• "I quit even expecting to get answers. In fact, that's what I said FEMA stood for: Forget Expecting Meaningful Answers," Huckabee said.
• "I told our people, 'We're rowing our own boat. We're going to get forgiveness, not permission. We're not going to sit around waiting on some bureaucrat in Washington to tell us what we can and cannot do. We know what we need to do,'" he said.

This folks, is proof what a true leader Mike Huckabee is. A true leader will put people and morals ahead of red-tape. A leader knows what is right and what is wrong. That is Mike Huckabee.

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