Occupy Wall Street is outperforming the Red Cross and FEMA in NY

Occupy Wall Street is outperforming the Red Cross and FEMA in their response to hurricane Sandy. They've been fast, scarily competent, and flexible, and gone to the hardest hit areas FEMA has ignored.

They receive high praise, and in the hard hit areas like Rockaways, volunteers from Occupy are the only help they've seen. Occupy members say that they feel capitalism is broken, and so they've stepped up to attend to community needs.

I'm totally pro-Obama, you know that, but this disaster has disappeared too quickly from the news cycle. From what I've heard, I'm getting the sense that there's too much crowd control going on, and not enough help.

The word is that it's really bad up there. People have lost everything, absolutely everything, and in the rubble -- with no infrastructure even -- must somehow rebuild their lives from scratch.