Calling FEMA Into a Mess

 For those who haven't noticed....along the border, in the past month....there's a new crisis brewing....migrant children arriving in massive numbers and the Border Patrol guys in dire need of help.

So the Homeland Security folks got a order (apparently from President Biden)....yesterday.  It was handed down to FEMA (your Federal Emergency Management Agency).

Normally, they handle floods, hurricanes and earthquakes.

This order basically says “to help receive, shelter and transport the children" over the next three months. 

Lot of journalists this morning are scratching their heads and trying to figure out what this means.  The directive given?  Provide some type of medical care, water, shelter and food.

So, here's the way that FEMA typically works.  They have people who carry credit cards and the ability to write non-compete contracts on the spot.  We aren't talking about the expenditure of a thousand or ten-thousand dollars.  They could walk out at 7 AM and spend half-a-million by lunch.  By 10 PM, as they enter the hotel room....they might have spent ten-million dollars. 

Poor oversight and misuse?  Well....yeah.

But at this point, the Biden team is desperate because of the huge number of migrant kids crossing the border.  

How will FEMA handle this?  

If the Border Patrol says they have 500 kids more than their shelter will handle....the FEMA lady will find someone who owns a hotel, and rent the entire structure.  Need child-patrol folks to supervise the kids?  The FEMA lady will find some group who will supply fifty folks around the clock to supervise and manage the kids.

If the Border Patrol needs 3,000 breakfast trays?  The FEMA guy will find a catering group to deliver the 3k trays.  A juice, an apple, a ultra-muffin, and candy bar.  

If the Border Patrol needs a on-site medical staff of fifteen folks....around the clock?  FEMA will find some clinic that hires out and sells their services (even if they exist in Idaho, and need to be in Texas in 24 hours).

Tens of millions to be spent weekly....over five to ten thousand migrant kids?  Yeah, and after three months of this....the expense report will be handed to the Biden team....to be utterly shocked over.  

If you wanted a five-star scandal for the 2022 election, this is the beginning of that effort.  

Math Being Racist?

 Around 2,600 years ago....the Greeks woke up and did something that no one really expected...they invented math.

They, more or less, said that space, structure, quantity, and whatever is left over (the change or difference)...mattered.

Maybe other cultures had suggested this, but the Greeks sat down and defined the path ahead.

In their mind, predictions were now possible.  You could define a garden and suggest the potential coming from the fruits.  You could define a barrel of wine, and suggest a price to that barrel, or your entire production cycle for the year.

Around 2,000 years prior to this....the Egyptians had dabbled in the 'art' (mostly for construction purposes)....it was the Greeks who took it entirely to the next level and finding formulas for just about every single situation. 

I reviewed this whole history discussion, and the recent garbage going on about math being racist.  The Greeks defined math as a simple tool to explain facts.  Without facts....you don't have much to really gauge reality upon.

So this chatter in the past month....that math might be racist?  It's hard to imagine someone starting a fake agenda like this, and thinking it'd lead anywhere.  

The heart of this racist argument?  Well...in inner city schools....kids are crapping out on math skills.  You might have a 18-year old kid in front of you....who can basically do third-grade math, and that's the reality of poor schools existing now.  So you have people standing around and suggesting that maybe math doesn't matter as a skill.

Dropping math entirely?  It's on some agenda but I think it's opening a pretty bad Pandora's Box, if you engage in this stupidity.