Federalism In Hurricane Katrina

After reading the article, I believe it is the battle of federalism that contributes to the problems of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Both the federal government and local government should be able to fix problems as such together. It is impossible for local governments to do what needs to be done to help their city if the national government is not agreeing. The federal government should be at blame for not helping the cities effected by the disaster. The policies and procedures enforced by the federal government failed to be resourceful to the victims. It kept the victims in unhealthy living situations because their procedures were not efficient. Based on the article, many local people of power were given the run around by FEMA when
it came to rebuilding the city. FEMA did not put up much effort to helping the people and kept pushing things back. It was a troubling process to rebuild the cities that was effected. In class, we learned that federalism has not been proven to be efficient for our country. The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina is an example.