Yeah, a lot of people in America see any disaster as a chance to fleece the benevolence of their fellow tax payers and the Government is hardly the most competent at disbursing funds in an emergency. It's so frustrating.
You only get the government you elect; so if you vote and elect people to government who are dysfunctional and have dysfunctional belief systems, you're going to have a dysfunctional government.
The lesson isn't to get rid of government, the lesson is to get rid of the people who make government dysfunctional, and today, all those people are on the Right.