Hurricane Recovery: State and Federal Government Inefficiency (Video)

Actually, the title is too kind. The word ‘inefficiency’ denotes a lack of ability.

What America has witnessed is the Federal Government having attacked the people of North Carolina via weather warfare and now the state of North Carolina and the Federal Government are working against the people of North Carolina.

This from hotair.com.

We the People have seen precious little coverage of the hurricane recovery efforts, and we all know why. Appalachia is still digging out from the mudslides, floods, and destruction.

The number of people who died or are still missing is unknown; government reports have been few and far between, few corporate media reporters seem interested in digging into the reality, and reports from people on the ground strongly contradict what the authorities have told us.

We cannot assume the on-the-ground reports from individuals are accurate when it comes to things like the number of missing and dead, just as we must not trust the government numbers. Governments and nonprofits have the advantage of having the ability to collate information from around the region but they have a strong motive to downplay the disaster and the “inefficiency” of their recovery efforts.

Locals may have a stronger motive to tell the story of their experience but they do not have the advantage of a synoptic view. Private efforts to find the missing show that hundreds or more people remain missing, and the government claims fewer than 100. The truth is somewhere in between—likely closer to what the locals are reporting.

We the People can see that even government efforts to show how great a job it is doing actually make the government look bad. For instance:

It is the perfect metaphor for government inefficiency. It shouldn’t take 20 people to cut up a tree and move the logs.

A tornado hit my neighborhood in 2011, and three of our spruce trees that stood 50-70 feet tall were felled. A friend of mine–a farmer in his 60s–asked if he could have the wood.

Sure! He came with a chainsaw and a truck with a trailer and, by himself, cleared the trees in an afternoon.

If you had a wheelbarrow in that video, you could let all but one or two of those expensive federal employees go help someone else.

Of course, efficiency was not the point: demonstrating effort was—and the more employees, the better—to present a false impression, that is.

When the tornado hit our neighborhood–an urban area very dense with houses and trees–it took about two afternoons for private tree services to clean up the majority of the damage. They had an incentive to do as many trees as possible, regulations had been relaxed, and they cleaned up the neighborhood (and cleaned up with money, too) lickety-split.

The disaster area from Helene is exponentially worse, of course, but at the current speed of government, the job will still be ongoing in the year 2100—and the sad point here is that there are people who are desperate and need to be dug out of the mess quickly.

Given this level of inefficiency–about which they are BRAGGING as an example of providing “help”–why would you trust the government with anything? They cannot remove a tree–a tree!–without 17 people who stand around 90% of the time.

Imagine, should Elon Musk actually take time to run the Department of Government Efficiency–what could be done.

If Customs and Border Patrol actually believes people should be impressed with this effort, Elon will have his work cut out for him.