Posted on 08/27/2006 9:38:53 AM PDT by screw boll
The Media coverage regarding Katrina was all about Bush's incompetence. The state and local government, under Democratic control, got a free pass.
Well, according to a recent New York Times poll, the American people saw the facts the way they were, and 81% say that the state and local government "could have done better." This number is similar to the 80% who say the federal government could have done better.
How did I miss this on the NYT front page?
Hurricane Katrina HIT the Mississippi Coast ... New Orleans damage was a result of man-made failings. Too much MSM distortion imop.
Lets go to our ace reporter on the scene.
Rattler: So Citizen Claxus, give us your thoughts on the disaster.
Citizen Claxus: Silence. (He's dead, Jim. You can't speak with a mouth full of ash.)
Rattler: They you have it folks. 80% of all citizens say Local and State government could have done better.
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It was a natural disaster folks. In hindsight, everybody could have done better.
Question is, are we ready for the NEXT one?
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NOLA was on Katrina's west wall, so she was hit with a moderate Cat III winds. Biloxi, Gulfport and Pascagoula were on the east wall, the worst place to be and suffered near Cat V winds. As already mentioned, NOLA's real troubles began when the levees failed. I still go back to that image of all those drowned schoolbuses and wonder "why"? All the people that were unable to leave, for one reason or another, could have been put on those buses and evacuated. Blanco and Nagin, not the President and FEMA, were responsible for the destruction and death toll in NOLA. But as always, it's Bush's fault.
There's no lack of trying on the part of the media to blame Bush, of course. In one documentary after another the question that never arrises is "Why weren't the poor, the elderly, etc., gotten out when there was time? In the PBS version Nagin was asked why the famous schoolbuses weren't parked on higher, dryer ground, not why the buses weren't used before the ground became flooded. The Dims supposedly had a plan and even sent out informational DVDs beforehand, trumpeting it to city residents.
After the RE-ELECTED mayor made the "hole in the ground comment" I could care less if all of NOLA was taken back by the swamps
Waiting for union-sanctioned schoolbus drivers? Anybody who can drive, can drive a schoolbus. They might run over a few curbs, but they could have gotten themselves and their neighbors, and anyone else they found along the way, out.
With out state of the art levees, NOLA shouldn't even be a city nor should it be rebuilt. Let another hurricane knock out the city to have the bonehead Government realize that a city shouldn't be 15 feet below sea level. If anything, put a prison there.
State and local government officials were too busy doing news conferences and playing the race card to get involved in petty stuff like getting the people out of New Orleans.
Network news flash....Noah reports worldwide flood...asks, upon docking of the ark, "Where was the gubmint when I was up to my ears in animal dung?"
Or, like the mayor, moving his family to safety in Dallas.
Poeple problems, right on.
A set of D9 cats with some cnchor chain could pull down most of the standing trash for burning or removal.
Make most of N.O. a large park or golf course. Make a one time payment and tell people to get on with their lives.
A year later and folks are still on the dole waiting for the FedGov to build them a house. My grandfather would be disgusted.
Notice how the "victims" bare zero responsibility?
Yeah from what I was told that in Mississipi bodies were strewn for several miles. And lots of bodies were found in the river.
I hope that's sarcasm?
What kills me is that when the tsumani hit WE were the ones who were supposed to save the day. Nobody blamed anyone for that disaster, it was viewed as just that...a natural disaster.
If we have a tsumani disaster like that, the coverage will be spun to blame Bush. I'm so sick of this it's time for .......
No I really did hear that.
I'm still mad at my parents for that that cotton candy they didn't buy me at the carnival when I was 10; my mom told me later that when she asked me if I wanted one, I said uh-huh and she thought I had said, huh-uh.
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