Reader Response

September, 1998

Fema RespondsIn your June issue, you featured a cynical article on the Federal Emergency Management Agency ("The Unnatural Disaster," The Playboy Forum). In it, author James Bovard asserts that disaster assistance is used only as a political tool that reduces individual responsibility. What a jaundiced view of one of the federal government's primary missions--to assist Americans in times of need.Bovard is particularly contemptuous of FEMA's aid to disaster victims he dismissively consi...

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