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What exactly is the Peter Principle?

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The Unnatural Law of Mismanagement

FEMA was headed by a guy named Michael Brown when Hurricane Katrina hit and basically it took days for the feds to respond. I remember reading an article or several maybe where Bush was questioning whether it's even the federal government's role to help out in this kind of disaster. Well sure enough FEMA finally gets around to helping. And amid this complete cluster of a rescue humanitarian mission. Yeah. Mismanagement Totally. And every form of the word.

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