Hurricane Katrina
ZephyrZodiac:
Well, I just hope the right people do get the blame and the buck doesn't get passed to subordinates, as is the usual case with governments everywhere!
veilchen:
You said it ZZ.
And I agree with the fact that right now the first, second, third - 100th priority are the poor people in the Gulf Coast region. They are in desperate need of help; blame pushing later - help now.
ZephyrZodiac:
However, perhaps if certain people are aware of the strength of feeling throughout not just the US but much of the rest of the world they will feel encouraged to take a lead and get things moving a bit faster!
kim:
Quote from: ZephyrZodiac on 2005 September 03, 22:37:57
Well, I just hope the right people do get the blame and the buck doesn't get passed to subordinates, as is the usual case with governments everywhere!
i don't really give a squat about blame. doesn't matter whose fault it is. this nations' federal government has been turned over to people who will not accept the responsibility of doing what the federal government is supposed to do. i don't have a link handy right now, but you could google "us constitution preamble" it's a short quick read.
what's most annoying is that those same people refuse to accept responsibility for their stupid actions and the consequent damage. shifting lies on shifting lies, and somehow, many citizens insist on being unwilling to catch the odor of what they're being fed.
we have a city and a region to rebuild right now, but i'm hopeful that, next good chance, we will choose a government that will be responsible to the needs of the nation, while we still have a nation.
so why am i writing and posting this? damned if i know. ignore it.
reggikko, be safe, be well.
it took some time but i've made my inner peace with pescado's ways. his approah is defensive, and not so terrible anyway. plus, he allows sane voices to speak here.
reggikko:
Update:
My son drove down to New Orleans from Baton Rouge and checked on my house. Most of my fence was blown over, my porch doors were torn to shreds, and my sycamore tree dropped a large branch on one corner of the roof. We lost a lot of shingles, but that was the extent of the damage. We do have water service, but don't yet have electricity and telephone service is spotty. . Apparently many of my neighbors have returned and are starting to clean up. I don't plan to go back until we have power, but i don't think that will take very long to restore. The neighboring parish has electricity, and we are the next step on the grid.
Most of my relatives have been accounted for. My elderly aunt and uncle are in Birmingham, Alabama. My best friend has not been heard from since before the hurricane.
In defense of Mayor Nagin, he did begin asking people to voluntarily evacuate before the storm. His hands were somewhat tied by state evacuation policy and the state police. How do people propose that he could have fully evacuated a city of nearly a half million people? The city does not have those kinds of resources. One other point. The city survived the hurricane just fine. Yes, there was damage and some flooding. It wasn't until the levee broke that all hell broke loose. The levee system is under the jurisdiction of the Army Corps of Engineers, not the city of New Orleans.
I don't think that blaming the victims of this is fair or rational. We all (except Pescado) are vulnerable to forces of nature. As someone else commented, last time I checked, we were part of the same nation. I pay my taxes and I expect my government to respond to the needs of my neighbors, no matter where in this country they may live.
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