Romney wants to WHAT in an age of climate change when we're seeing

This is no time to decentralize and throw all the states on their own. Are these guys' brains engaged, or is states-right ideology being applied where the most basic common sense says it doesn't belong?

This is just the beginning. Climate change means many more and worse natural disasters of the sort we are seeing right now and many others. FEMA's job is specifically to COORDINATE responses to diisasters too big for the resources of individual states. When 1000-mile-wide storms are the new reality, Romney's plan to put each state on its own is profoundly incompetent. 

Costs would RISE because of unnecessary duplication of equipment among the 50 states. Just for instance, this time around FEMA brought generators to hospitals and other important facilities in a dozen states, so neither the facilities nor the local governments had to purchase and maintain their own. Some of these generators will be on their way to another disaster somewhere else soon.

Doing it Romney's way, disaster responses would fail much more often. FEMA was created specifically because state and local responses could not meet many problems that were too large and overwhelmed them. Local emergency management is often devastated by the disaster that has struck.

FEMA not only comes in from outside the disaster area with massive equipment and relief supplies, it also provides high-grade experts to advise local governments faced with failing dams, diseased water, power outages, mud slides, need to move people quickly, and on and on. 

I swear, every week that goes by Mr. IF-You're-Going-To-Have-Women-Working shows us another reason why he should not be president of the United States. We don't need another W unable to understand what he's gotten himself into, much less one who lacks even W's basic decency and humility. At least W was ultimately capable of understanding when he was wrong (for whatever that's worth), but I'm afraid that Romney may not be.