This created a "consultant culture" that crippled FEMA's effectiveness, Georgia State University disaster expert William Waugh told the Durham, N.C., Independent. "Governments can't do things because they've given up those capabilities to the private sector. And private corporations don't necessarily maintain those capabilities." |
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