The BOX Thinking

by Bruce H, Scroggins

I can only watch and think about what’s happening, and as I watch the approaching Hurricanes, I’ve come to a couple of conclusions. First; we are not even close to preparing, or planning, for the eventual, before during, and aftermath, of these natural disasters. Second; the season for hurricanes will end in November, and we need to get at the very least prepared, for the before, during and the after.

Now I know great minds have been thinking, and planning for all three eventualities, all over the world. But as all these think tankers, think and paln, we all can tell were failing badly, and expending obscene amounts of money, trailing late at every attempt to make a difference for our people, of all colors and age, they are all Americans, and our guest, as there caught in these disasters wake.

So lets start to look at what's happening to America, in and another way. The best minds seem to be looking, and planning for the before, as though, they don’t want to get people moving on what may be a false eventual outcome.

The before thinking, they think, should be because we thought it would never get this bad, but all along, they knew, we had cat 1,2,3,4,5,and 6 and up storms, we can’t build for these, so we threw caution to the wind, and built anyway, right on the beach, and continued form the beach building right on in, and up, with whole communities, all geared around making money, planning for cat 3 protection. Now the only structures built, close to the water should be made of bio-degradable material, nothing should be built that we cannot afford to lose, this is a big change in Americas Capitalistic ways, our profit first thinking and planning has too change… think America, the only thing that doesn’t seem to be lost, but suffers damages, but are reparable, are the OIL and Energy infrastructures.

Thinking this way means, a change in the money pit thinking that’s costing America, and Insurance companies, so much more money, that we are now today borrowing like a Nation full of drunken sailors, and Captains.

The during thinking, America is haunted by our foresight, that is inadequate, to the extremes, we can move fast after, but during a storm, we are ham strung by our before planning, and it constrains us to act, in unison, to help were help is needed, so once it sure we going to be hit, the FEMA organizations should be working hand in hand with the State and Local authorities, before with FEMA subordinate and assisting, but working alone with, at each step of the State, and Local authorities way. Never should the Local, the State, and FEMA be separated from each other, because what's is the focus is America, people firsr, structures second, and the thinking about my turf, and each acting like fiefdoms, in and emergency is absolutely stupid, and a huge wast of resource, and manpower.

It’s because of the thinking we suffer, by not integrating these organizations, not in staying in separate offices before, during, and after a emergency, only coming together when one has to take over from the other, when it’s ability to respond is over whelmed. It called a layered response, each making declarations, as each saw fit, hamstringing the next layer with worthless, decisions that only get in the way of the next layer when it has to take over from the one swept over by the intensity of the emergency.

The After thinking, Now all this thinking,involves gambeling, will it hit, and when to move the people, and planning to spend the least amount of money, each limited in what’s available to get each levels jobs done, based on this box thinking model, the Local, State, and FEMA Authority are all, saving there outside the box thinking for what they didn’t expect to happen, each thinking there planning is the best, only asking for help with the peripherals, until it’s too late, and each waiting on the other to fail, before acting.

When we had bad storms in the past we had smaller populations, and less tecnology and still some of the storms still over ran our abilities to respond. But the lessons, still weren’t learned, it was as if we planned to fail, and then respond, by rushing in to save what's left, and throwing huge sums of money at the problem, and dragging the out come from pork to pork, and arguing all the way through.

The proof of this thinking was the 100,000 people left behind, and forced out of, and sent all over America, literally, snatching the voice of the region, and stealing the voter, scattering the very workforce needed to rebuild, bussing them to the four corners of the Nation, very effective, but a Huge waste of resources, and the very talent necessary to rescue, and recover is now gone, from were it was most needed. It was as if there was a plan to leave them until they would go anywhere, and hating were they were, and saying, just get me out of here.

And when many in America saw this as planned benign neglect, in the highest order, and when the Mayor screamed after having his communications cut, and then being refused to use the cutters communication, and then, the Mayor being, forced to stay close to the Media, as his only communications, was humiliating in the highest degrees, and many in America saw this as planned as well, and the Governor, saw it as well, but was more easily bought off, and remember, the Govenor was very complimentary of FEMA, in the beginning, when she saw the truth in the begining, and screamed as well, remember.

And all this was covered by claims of it’s the mayors fault, and the Governor fault, by Republicans, but the Nation as a whole saw only Michael Brown, and Bush, and then and only then did they jump in with the General first, being gruff, and short with the Media, the General saw the same things that the Governor and the Mayor saw, but was constrained by position, but we in America know the Media’s a Corporate owned lacey of the Republican Party, yes many are Democrats in the Media, but they now know where there bread is buttered, and became as dossal as in the past, since this Administrations take over of all three branches of the Government, five years ago.

The Poor, the Sick, the Elderly, the Young, the Blacks of all ages, were left to die, and suffer, till the great Bush decided to move on there behalf, Bush looked at the Box, and said, we can move now, and I’ll lead the way, but he waited too long, and had to say, “I take responsibility for what happen.”

And it has been business as usual, FEMA, the State, the Local authorities… still looking at the BOX, and in a pinch, they employ thinking outside of the BOX, and some even think they are doing a good job, because there's not too many deaths… America looks at the BOX, and prays, America can never stop praying.


Bruce H, Scroggins http://lovethetruth.blogspot.com/