FEMA to take over mass care role formerly held by Red Cross

FEMA to take over mass care role formerly held by Red Cross

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A recent report by the Government Accountability Office raises concerns about the new arrangement, however. While GAO supports FEMA's role as the primary agency for providing mass care, it questions whether it has the staff and resources to do so adequately. Additionally, neither FEMA nor the Red Cross nor other volunteer organizations are sufficiently prepared to support the elderly or people with disabilities during a disaster, auditors found

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Please read this article...........

They have no way of taking care of the elderly or the disabled??
Why is that??
Do they not intend to care for them??
Sounds like a NWO situation to me.


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I have heard more than a hundred times now that should there be an "emergency" you more or less have to fend for yourself because there is not the man power to ask for help.

Now this.

Oh yea, conditioning for NWO and they want the Red Cross out, they MIGHT HELP.



Edit to add: The world saw first hand the exemplary job FEMA can do in an emergency!!!

[edit on 10-3-2008 by dgtempe]

Another question...... How are they going to have "mass care" without a place to care for people?

Oh wait I guess FEMA will use the camps that they have, SHHH don't tell anyone.

reply to post by freedomataprice



i read the article, the American Red Cross (as opposed to the International Red Cross) has agreed with FEMA,
that FEMA should be the agency in charge of disasters---
basically because FEMA has the ability & resources to be a pro-active
leader in marshalling resources for the walking-wounded and to
organize mass evacuation for any approaching calamity....

things that the Red Cross, a 'response' organization, is not capable nor authorized to do.


as far as i know first hand, emergency shelters are there for the disabled,
as long as they bring their wheelchair/crutches, medications, etc....
the more severely disabled, i.e. bedridden, are advised to seek assistance at hospitals or other facilities which can accomodate them.

There is way too much 'reading-into' the Elderly-Disabled component
as a forgotten segment of society than there should be in this case.
The initial stages of a program in development should not expect a
'every situation is addressed' solution to every need, to be ironed out on day one. The elderly & some disabled (i.e.: challenged) will fit nicely in the
mass exodus scheme models being planned... it is only the extreme cases & personal situations which do not as yet have a protocol or procedures to follow.


If hospitals, hospices, clinics, elderly care facilities, do not have set-aside
a few beds or spaces for a community that finds itself the bulls-eye of a cat. 5 tornado or hurricane... maybe it should be legislated that these types of places should be able to accomodate a minimum of 5 bed-ridden persons at each facility... we know that these types of places are usually scattered throughout any community, town, city.

so the non-ambulitory elderly or disabled, who would otherwise be left to their own devices or hunker-down in family residences, not be left abondened by either the hired nurse/caregiver or any reletives that might
have bugged out.


way too complex an issue for easy answeres



in an emergency evacuation order

Great... First Formaldehyde in the trailers...

What's next... Phtalates in the IV tubes?

Why should we be so concerned about the elderly and disabled in a situation X?

I am disabled though not yet elderly though I'm getting veeeeery close.

IMO the resources and necessities available should be used for the survival of the young and able citizens.

Care for the elderly and disabled involves an extreme amount of time , medication and other things to sustain life.

The impaired among us are not going to live long. Let us die with dignity serving our fellow man by refusing to be a burden.

There are worse things than death. Sometimes it is a blessing.

Dizzie

Why should we be so concerned about the elderly and disabled in a situation X?

I am disabled though not yet elderly though I'm getting veeeeery close.

IMO the resources and necessities available should be used for the survival of the young and able citizens.

Care for the elderly and disabled involves an extreme amount of time , medication and other things to sustain life.

The impaired among us are not going to live long. Let us die with dignity serving our fellow man by refusing to be a burden.

There are worse things than death. Sometimes it is a blessing.

Dizzie