Prs. Obama... Excellent Choice for FEMA Director!

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I'm not a big believer in the whole concept of requiring that administrators have experience in the market they are administrating. A good administrator is one who can jump from (say) the auto industry to medical to mining and back again. Administration and "where the rubber meets the road" work requires two different skill sets, and being able to produce widgets doesn't mean a person can run Widgets R Us. The same goes for FEMA. Any successful administrator can run FEMA. Why? For the same reason any successful administrator can run a hospital or Widget Factory. Administrators don't run factories, they run the people who run each department of the factory. They don't inspect widgets, they run the person who runs Quality Control. However, when you find a person who can do both, you keep them... and reward them as often as you can. This is the case with Prs. Obama's nominee for FEMA, Craig Fugate. He has experience in both in spades and has proven himself time and time again. He also seems to be able to keep up with his taxes. Craig Fugate was appointed by Gov. Bush to head the Florida State Emergency Management Office in 2001. Gov. Gilchrist kept him on in 2009. This puts every natural disaster since 2001 on his resume. That in itself gives us a good idea of his administration abilities. From the "rubber meets the road" standpoint, Craig Fugate has been a firefighter, a paramedic and in the Emergency Management Office of Alachua County, where he worked his way up to Director. In this flurry of decisions by Prs. Obama, good, bad and in between... Here's one choice this former Paramedic, Wildland Firefighter, Disaster Relief Worker, Search & Rescue trained military retiree can whole heartedly endorse.