The blind leading the blind

[unixronin]

From docwebster:

DENVER - Former FEMA Director Michael Brown, heavily criticized for his agency's slow response to Hurricane Katrina, is starting a disaster preparedness consulting firm to help clients avoid the sort of errors that cost him his job.

"If I can help people focus on preparedness, how to be better prepared in their homes and better prepared in their businesses — because that goes straight to the bottom line — then I hope I can help the country in some way," Brown told the Rocky Mountain News for its Thursday editions.

Well, I suppose as long as his list of clients is made public, so that anyone in any kind of disaster-relief position of authority who goes to him for advice can immediately be fired .... if for no other reason, then because seeking advice on disaster relief from the architect of the biggest and most publicized disaster-relief screwup in recent US history displays excruciatingly poor judgement.

Comments

[jmkelly.livejournal.com]

Mark Twain once wrote that the best person for the job is someone who screwed it up already -- has made his mistake, and knows the consequences better than someone who hasn't yet.

Maybe that works for some jobs.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

I expect in this case he will prove to be adept at repeating his mistakes.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

I think he has a point, but that for it to work requires that the person (a) has to be competent in the first place, and (b) has to actually learn from their mistakes. I see little evidence of either in Brown's case.

[bbwoof.livejournal.com]

Since the lovely and talented zoethe doesn't appear on your list of friends, I just have to point you to her take on this.

http://www.livejournal.com/users/zoethe/426339.html?

Enjoy!

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Much on the mark, indeed :)

[olafthunderfoot.livejournal.com]

i wonder how much $$$$$ he was subsidized by bush and fema?