Obama promised to get FEMA and other parts of his administration to cut red tape and be quick in responding to victims of Hurricane Sandy. But He didn't.
Hillary Clinton has an explanation. That was a campaign promise. During campaigns sometimes we over do things. - As I recall her response to a student in another country.
AP/CBS/ABC/NBC might want to ask Him why he didn't do what he promised.
Storm-ravaged New Yorkers say President Obama’s promise to cut red tape and get them aid in the aftermath of Sandy has proven to be hot air.
Angry citizens vented at FEMA officials at a town hall meeting held by the disaster relief agency Thursday, with tempers boiling over. Some 1,000 people, many left homeless by the Oct. 29 storm, attended the meeting at Staten Island’s New Dorp High School. They were initially scheduled to submit written questions that would be picked and answered at random, but the session turned into an angry shouting match where residents booed FEMA officials and accused them of lying.
… Obama addressed the nation from FEMA headquarters in Washington on Nov. 3, promising to cut red tape and bring the full force of FEMA to hard-hit residents.
"What I told the governors and the mayors is what I've been saying to my team since the start of this event, and that is we don't have any patience for bureaucracy, we don't have any patience for red tape, and we want to make sure that we are figuring out a way to get to yes, as opposed to no, when it comes to these problems," Obama said.
On Nov. 15, Obama came to Staten Island, where he repeated his pledge.
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