In an emergency, who is quicker to respond, the government or private charities?

Answer 1

The Katrina tragedy, and the genocide in Rwanda showed us that private charities will go early and stay late as opposed to government organizations that go late and pull out early.

Answer 2

maybe you should look into the red cross, who is usually the first response, and tell us if you really htink they are a private charity.
They operate as one, and even started as one, but the are more like a little chick under the wing of the Department of defense.

do you really think the red cross had all those nice maps so they can respond fast, off yahoo maps? hardly.

little do many people know, that should the entire united states be declared in a state of disaster, the department of defense will dump HUGE sums of cash into the red cross for disaster services.
when i say HUGE sums of cash, i mean war-size funds.

the red cross stopped being a private charity when that disaster related initiative was approved.

so to answer your question, the first responders, is the federal government, or the department of defense.


private charities are always on the scene, so the limited response isn't any more than they usually are doing. it takes them a long time to get things approved and organized to fully respond to severe disasters. By that time, the national guard, and reserves should already be in route.

without federal and state government funding, and federal and state government donation of surpluss equipment, those private charities wouldn't be able to respond nearly as well as they do.

Answer 3

Private charities. Not only did private charities arrive before anyone else but they are still there doing what they can for the Katrina survivors. Some charities that are still doing work: Salvation Army, Operation Blessing, Catholic charities, various church denominations such as Baptist, Methodist, etc., Samaritan's Purse. The people there would have starved if it had not been for these charities and more. Most of these helped in world wide disasters too such as the tsunami.

Answer 4

An honest, efficient government should always be the first to respond.

If the people have to resort to private charities to fix a national emergency, then the government is doing things wrong.

Answer 5

Private Charities were you not around to witness Katrina. The government has too much red tape.

Answer 6

Obviously its private charities. Just ask some of the Katrina victims who are STILL waiting for some of that promised federal aid. But, Trent Lott got his right away so he could rebuild his beachfront home. Amazing how that works.

Answer 7

Private charities hands down. Ask Katrina survivors.

Answer 8

Private charities. Also, the government and their 'employees' will take the biggest bite first and then dole it out to those they favor.

Answer 9

The charities you would still be waiting if your were waiting for the
government.

Answer 10

private charities