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[AKvetch]

RE: No FEMA work force...it doesn't exist

Similar to FEMA’s funding arrangement, most of its employees are hired to perform work related to a specific, presidentially declared disaster. The majority of FEMA’s workforce is comprised of nonpermanent employees with various terms (from 120 days to 4 years), who are paid out of the DRF. As with the funding for the DRF, the number of these employees can fluctuate in response to the number and severity of disasters.7 The remainder of FEMA’s workforce is comprised of about 2,100 permanent full-time (PFT) employees, who are paid primarily out of FEMA’s nondisaster relief fund accounts. FEMA also uses contractors to administer some of its programs, but FEMA does not track data on the level of contract support it receives.

All volunteer? Gimme a break. Note the part about "contractors". I know people who work full time doing "contract" work. Heck, I've even been called. Not bad money either.

See page 11: http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d07139.pdf