A Harbinger of Katrina's Aftermath?

You'll be hard-pressed to find a better synopsis of the political hype and resulting bureaucratic messes that follow natural disasters than this article in Reason Online by Glenn Garvin - written all the way back in 1993 as he reflected on the government response to Hurricane Andrew.

The piece is quite lengthy, but it's a must-read. The only meaningful difference between the federal government's response to Andrew vice Katrina is that when all was said and done, Bush 41 and Congress had stuffed enough pork into the hurricane aid package to total about $8 billion, while 43 has already teamed with Congress to earmark $75 billion - and the federal tab is almost sure to rise even further.