The Katrina Problem is Government Itself

Unorganized, uncooperative, non-communicating & slow moving government agencies are the problem with the Katrina relief effort as explained by Daniel Henniger today.

"We know what to do, but we aren't good at doing it".

"We fail to use well what we know because we rely too much on large public bureaucracies. This was the primary lesson of the 9/11 Commission Report. Large public bureaucracies, whether the FBI and the CIA or FEMA and the Corps of Engineers, don't talk to each other much. They are poorly incentivized, if at all."

"Big public bureaucracies are going to get us killed. They already have."

Read the whole article here.