Posted on 09/04/2005 8:52:51 PM PDT by Jacob Kell
I'd love to see President Bush actually follow their advice... "Okay, I've fierd all the FEMA officials [show FEMA grinding to a complete halt and devolving into useless chaos] -- *now* what do you suggest?"
One thing is for sure - - I am not donating a penny to anything that benefits New Orleans.
Donations that I make will strictly benefit Mississippi, where the people are picking themselves up and doing what they need to do rather than holding out their hands and whining that "the government" isn't doing enough.
i didn't see that FEMA had done such a bad job either, particularly since local governments are told they must shoulder the burden for 72 to 96 hours before the Federal Government can get there.
Maybe if they fire their Mayor and Governor, we'll consider it then. Until then, residents should try to buy a clue.
Just tell them that now "Its your job! You take care of it."
Leave it to the RATS to try and make political hay out of something that is their sole responsibility and problem.
New Orleans is primarily an example of the failure of Liberalism and Socialism....anything else,is just an excuse to cover it up.
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Please send these pictures to all the major media outlets. At least then, they won't be able to say that they were unaware of the bus situation in NO.
I think the biggest breakdown in America is in the educational system. How is it so many people are so utterly IGNORANT of the way the Government works?
Because they have been taught to stand there with a big sob story and their hand out. It has worked for over 40 years. The welfare system and the "War on Poverty" have produced exactly what you are seeing on TV today in the shooters, looters, and the "mayor" and "governor" who are as clueless about doing their job as I would be trying to be Pope.
As a woman, I am utterly embarrassed by the chronic "deer in the headlights" posture of Blanco, and I think Nagin is waaaaayyy off his meds. Not sure if his meds are self prescribed, or if there really is a scrip involved, tho.
When able bodied men and women can lay for 3+ days next to or near dead bodies and not assemble enough of themselves to remove the dead person to a quiet corner or a higher row of nosebleed seats in the Superdome, it is beyond pathetic.
We have spent trillions of $$$ teaching these people that they can demand "services" from anyone or any part of government to satisfy their "needs", and they are mentally and emotionally crippled when the S*%t hits the moving blades.
I can still hear my dad saying: Do something when there is a problem or an emergency... EVEN IF IT IS DEAN WRONG...DO SOMETHING!!! He would be madder if we stalled out and did nothing at all. These people totally stalled out.
I don't see any reason to fire a single FEMA official or employee. I wouldn't go into what was rapidly becoming a battle zone unarmed, either. Why should I expect them to do so?
That paper is irrelevent now""
They have been holed up too long together and smelling each other faaaarrr too long now.
Failure of leadership at the local level.
But! But! But! I thought New Orleans was under water and most of the living have been evacuated.
Are they going to load these newspapers in boats and deliver them to the dead so in the after life they will know IT IS BUSH'S FAULT. < /sarcasm off >
The media just can't see that Mayor Nagin and Gov. Blanco didn't have one person in their combined administrations that were as resourceful as this one kid. Too easy for them to ask for the federal gov. to bail them out and take all the heat for what went wrong.
I'm tired and that's a horrible run on sentence, but that's what is plainly apparent from anyone looking upon this from a distance.
Hearings are in fact coming, and in the words of that smarter than Nagin chimp Dr. Zaius, "You may not like what you find."
Gee, I wonder why this rag did not encourage their mayor to go get those buses, or I wonder if the "reporters" flew down to their thirsty citizens to bring some water.
If not, then they hate blacks, that's what I heard on TV.
Pardon me, but how the F#CK can it have a print edition when it's city is under water because its mayor is an idiot?
Responsibly starts at the local level, then moves to state level and finally to the federal level. SO what did the local DEMS do for the people?
Listening for an answer or at best an answer that saved lives...
FEMA should not exist.
The Office of Civil Defense should be reinstated, and FEMA eliminated.
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