Today’s Chicago Tribune had an article on the length of time it took for some recent Illinois disasters to warrant a presidential declaration allowing the area to receive aid from FEMA. Many affected communities had to wait more than a month and even more than two months. I think this is too long for suffering families to wait for relief. Government’s most important role is to assist our citizens in times of disaster. There needs to be better collaboration between FEMA and state and local agencies to speed up the relief process. Suffering families cannot wait for the bureaucratic wheels to turn.
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