"The good outweighs the bad" in flood relief despite greed and disorganization

Pickett complains that the county commissioners were too slow to contact FEMA and that FEMA moved too slowly, although the Red Cross and Salvation Army stepped in to help. The work of these aid groups, however, was hobbled by "greedy" people who applied for and got money they should not have gotten. This is another passage in which Pickett shows his conflicting responses, and the conflicting responses of other members of the community, to this disaster. He concludes, though, that "the good outweighs the bad."