Hurricane Katrina
Jarsie:
Now I know why I'll never vote Democrat again.
The finger pointing could have waited until after everything was over...not during it.
It's funny....some people are swift to say that the present United States government is a dictatorship...and then get angry because it doesn't act like it.
Now, I can't help but wonder if the press would be so likely to give the Governor of Louisiana and the Mayor of New Orleans a pass if both had been Republican instead of Democrat?
Oh well....I won't get into this argument with you folks, but really...the politicizing by both the press and the extremist Democrats could have waited until long after the fact.
Oh, and lest we forget...about going into Afghanistan and Iraq...that didn't happen over night. That took months and months of planning. And ignoring how long it took the Feds to get aid to the victims of Hurricane Andrew (what was it, something like 4-6 days?) and other hurricanes doesn't change the fact that even when the State government is responsible, it's still going to take the Feds time to set up shop. And I do believe that little brother Bush was governor of Florida then.
But then, I suppose it's easier to ignore the facts when Uncle Sugar is run by the Great Satan Bush instead of John "French Poodle" Kerry. One wonders how President Kerry would have fared in such a situation. Would he have ignored the Constitution and federal and state laws and gone in willy nilly to save the day? We'll never know. But I'm sure that whatever he did...in the eyes of the media and the rest of the world...it would have been golden.
Oh, and by the way...where is the UN in all of this? Isn't this natural disaster of sufficient magnitude for them to rush to our aid? Oh, but then I forgot...they haven't got any money to spare. They can only give us their sympathy.
kim:
Quote from: ZephyrZodiac on 2005 September 06, 12:10:36
On a more serious note, it seems odd that the US Federal government could go into Afghanistan and Iraq without permission from their Governments (ostensibly to sort out life-threatening situations) but couldn't override a state government in the US itself!
and thanks zz for answering the query about global warning denial.
state of emergency declaration by gov blanco was august 26. request from governor for federal state of emergency was august 28. even without that request, federal intervention was pretty much a mandate immediate post-event, per the national response plan of december 2004. anyone cares can find it on the dept of homeland ssecurity site at dhs.gov.
beyond that, and the negligence on levee maintenance (and other corps of engineers responsibilities, nationwide), the flooding probability should have had a specific response plan. not the same as but similar to the plan for responding to a terrorist attack on the levees. oh, right. we don't have one of those either. maybe if we had competent leadership in the department? above the department?
reggikko:
I'll be heading home today, folks. I may be incommunicado until my cable internet is up and running. So, for those who would wonder, don't worry if you don't hear from me for a while.
ZephyrZodiac:
Good luck, Reg! Hope things aren't too much of a problem to sort out!
rhodaloo:
We're begining to get displaced families in our little N. TX town. Today one of the kids enrolled at the school I was working. She said her family decided to leave two days before the hurricane hit. They were planning on riding out the storm until the police told the father, "If you don't leave now, I'm afraid you'll be carrrying out those kids in body bags." She said they think their house is under 12-20 feet of water (east of New Orleans).
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