I work for the state dick
LOL, well I wasn't actually saying that everyone working for the State are morons. In the Hawaii fuck-up it was a single State worker's screw-up that caused the false alert to go out and snafu everything.
As long as we are going to rely on humans to do things, we are going to have to realize that sometimes humans screw up, and while we do need to address the screw-ups, we don't need the Federal Government to be the sole point of remedy for every screw-up that happens. The State of Hawaii should be more then capable of dealing with an issue in the Alert system that only effected people within Hawaii.
No matter how big a screw up a person makes, if it's effect is local to a single city you don't need a State or Federal band-aid for it, the City effected should be as far as anyone needs to look for a remedy and a plan for prevention in the future.