Most Americans want FEMA fixed, not abolished like what Bush wants

Most Americans completely reject the idea fronted by Senators Susan Collins and Joseph Lieberman to abolish the agency of FEMA, according to the latest FNC Poll:

"Thinking about FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, do you think it would be more effective and efficient to abolish FEMA and replace it with a new agency, or do you think it would be more effective and efficient to fix FEMA?"

Replace - 31%
Fix - 58%
Unsure - 11%

The problem with FEMA is not its workers, but rather its incompetent micro-managers at the very top.  Hard-working FEMA employees, many of whom worked 20-hour shifts during Katrina without the resources they needed, should not be the scapegoats.  By doing away with FEMA, as opposed to firing people like Chertoff like they should, the Senate is going to put hundreds of dedicated employees out of a job and do nothing to address the over-arching reality: Americans will be safer with FEMA as its own cabinet-level agency with the power to independently lobby Congress for money without being under the the restraining blanket of Homeland Security.