If you cut off your leg using a chainsaw in front of a bureaucrat, he would run around in a panic, yelling, "Which form do I use, the blue form or the pink form."
And that in a nutshell is why the relief effort was such a disaster in the wake of America's most deadly and costly hurricane.
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