President Donald Trump threatened to eliminate the Federal Emergency Administration. He said that FEMA said, “It turned out to be a disaster,” and said that it had established a very important public council and judged an agency.
Trump and others believe that the state should be better responded to disasters. The debate is that each state knows the people and the terrain better than the distant federal agencies. The state is more agile, reducing waste, reducing fraud, and increasing the impact, can distribute money and other emergency resources faster and more efficiently. In other words, disaster victims and taxpayers will provide better services.
Or are they?
Florida’s recent records include distributing money and managing other programs to people who are in need of other programs.
Do you remember the big failure of unemployment insurance in COVID? For many years, the state leaders have impaired the system paid to those who lost their job. Audit warns an imminent issue. Later, Cobid had attacked, the economy was crashed, and money had to flow. Instead, it dripped down like a broken faucet. At that time, I explained the state unemployment system as a descendant of trains and trash bins.
Our state leaders have set to fail the system. Hundreds of thousands of people have been wastefully applied for weekly payments. Ron Desantis, even Governor Ron Desantis, finally acknowledged that this system was a disaster.
People were hurt and the nation was added to their pain.
Old news? no. It is still happening. Since the unemployment rate is about 3.4 %, there are not many people who have applied for insurance money in the middle of COVID CRISIS. Nevertheless, the system is more difficult than often useful.
Tampa Bay Times has recently reported that the residents who lost their employment after Hurricane Debbie, Helen, and Milton had to wait for a few weeks or months to pay unemployed. Arashi has destroyed some restaurants and other businesses where these people worked. In some cases, the buildings are literally no longer. However, the unemployment system is very inefficient, so these workers cannot get a slight payment. Up to 12 weeks, $ 275 a week. Some people have lost their homes.
During the COVID, the state had a hard time establishing a vaccination system, before vaccine skepticism became the entertainment of the people. The schedule website failed. The scam has bloomed. The vaccine batch has expired even if a large number of people wanted a jab.
Our leaders said that the system was supposed to succumb to a lot of pressure, as we spent many years to reduce public health budgets. Is it stupid or chatspa? Either way, that’s not what everyone wants to hear during the crisis.
More recently, the state has introduced more than 532,000 children from Medicade after health insurance in the COVID era. Florida has called for the help of the federal government to reduce the number of children who lose coverage for system error or red tape. When they tried to repaint the state of the state’s children and their families, what did their struggling families encounter? System error and red tape.
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You may claim that Republican members who control the state parliament often do not accept government programs such as unemployment insurance and extension medicade frequently. Therefore, negligence is not surprising. However, those leaders in the same state attack the school voucher. They love the idea of giving their families taxes to allow children to go to private or religious schools and to allow their children to go home schooling.
Nevertheless, the contractor chosen by their hands muttered it anyway.
In 2023, children with special needs, including autism and physical disorders, fought for a few months and rejected funds beyond delays. They rarely received a satisfactory answer to their many questions or complaints. Some schools immersed in a protected area and reduced programs because they were floating. Others were thinking about closing. In the same year, parents could not repay the items and services purchased for home schooling.
A member of the Diet intervened, but last summer the program was still confused. Parents illuminated the chat room with rejected claims, confusion rules, inconsistent advice, and terrible services, including waiting for hours. One group of families seeking support and support has doubled nearly 11,000 participants.
This is not a discussion of a small government and a large government, whether in favor or opposite school vouchers. Of course, FEMA is not perfect. However, as the nation reconstructes the disaster response, we ignore Florida’s failure to our own danger. After all, the nation was washed away by money and could not distribute funds to schools that help children with autism. It hardly gains confidence.
