Posted on 01/21/2009 6:45:30 AM PST by Ebenezer
Indeed. Our new president seems most keen on expanding that program, too. Non-minorities need not apply.
I will agree that Bush tried to be a middle-of-the-road President. And when you are in the middle of the road, you get run over.
katrina was the first example in recent memory where the democrat party put people in harms way to get political power.
can you say unused school buses?
the second was the 2006 election and the dem effort to keep the iraq war from settling down.
Yes, and I lived through it in Rocky Mount, NC.
Some of my friends lost everything they had.
Did we sit around waiting for the National Guard, the Red Cross, or maybe Superman to come save us? NO!
Instead we did what neighbors are supposed to do - pitched in and helped, pooled our resources, and got back to normal the best way we knew how.
A notable exception after Floyd was Princeville, NC, a town down the Tar River from Rocky Mount.
Princeville was the first town chartered by freed slaves in the US.
The conspiracy theories were flying that somehow, Rocky Mount had "deliberately flooded" Princeville...which was settled on swampland and eventually surrounded by a levee. Gee, I wonder if that's why it really flooded?
Now it's nearly 10 years later, and they're still trying to rebuild and are still pointing fingers in the process.
But that's another story in itself.
Never figured out how New Orleans, the most Democratic area in the South, became Bush’s problem.
It was, and remains, a cesspool of corrupt and failed liberal policies.
It was unprepared because of its own corruption and stink.
Not. Our. Problem.
“the response was horrendous!”
It was a local issue.
The local people failed to prepare, spending money on corrupt PC crap, instead of levies. That’s their problem.
Too bad they spread the disease to Houston.
I wish Texas had refused to take any of the Katrina refugees.
>>>>> GWB failed when he appointed a crony to head FEMA <<<<<<
Rubbish. Mr. Brown did an excellent job the previous year with the 4 hurricanes that Florida experienced.
The Federal response to Katrina was the biggest, most massive and quickest federal response ever. They were also very innovative.
I appreciated the Governments help very much.
Me and my daughter sheltered out the storm in the Monroe Civics Center. We were well cared for, there was plenty of food. Monroe was a very welcoming town.
Immediately after the storm, the Coast Guard initiated a massive helicopter rescue effort. Something like 30,000 people were rescued.
Now just how exactly do you find a house, a street address when all the street signs are underwater?
I have a friend who worked at the Louisiana Department of Transport. A company, I forget their name, donated a large number of GPS systems to them. They uploaded the cities maps and gave them to the Coast Guard pilots. The pilots used those GPS systems to find the houses where the people were trapped.
I don’t have much sympathy for the people who gambled with their lives and stayed in the City. Bush requested a mandatory evacuation of the city. The dithering mayor and governor reluctantly and finally agreed (although they had called for a voluntary evacuation several days earlier). That was the first ever mandatory evacuation of the city.
Unfortunately, tens of thousands of citizens chose to ignore the request. Their fate is on their own heads. The government had done all it could do.
The Superdome was NOT the disaster that the media made it out to be. There was food, water, medical teams and shelter for the citizens that went there.
Yep... what you say is true.
LLS
"GWB failed when he appointed a crony to head FEMA in lieu of promoting from the agency within where there is vast experience in moving supplies and anticipating situations."Total BS. Brownie was in charge of FEMA during the four hurricanes that struck Florida the year before. He was widely praised for his response. The difference was that Florida had a Republican governor who did what he was supposed to do.
They are written by others and managed by a group of people in the education area that are left wing. That is why they have so many errors.
W will be treated quite well by historians.
I’d give them a month clear out, then blow the Mississippi levee.
Ever hear any griping from Iowa? How About Galveston? How about Hurricane Rita?
No you didn’t. People got out their chainsaws, bulldozers and the bare hands and got to work cleaning up the mess.
In Humble, TX, the damage was not ovewhelming. The winds died down about 12:00 noon on Saturday, and people came out of their houses and and began the clean up. Most houses and yards had been cleaned up by 2:00 PM Sunday afternoon. Even some very long stretches of fencing had been rebuilt by that time.
I had to hurry and get with the program to clean up the yard.
Why keep dragging this BS into the site?
Complete BS.
Things you know will happen in a disaster:
4 days for federal response.
Immediate from local authority
Salvation Army will be there before the Feds
Red Cross will follow a few days later. Lotsa red tape in that organization.
A Southern Baptist organization will be on site just about as fast as the Salvation Army, cooking up some reat barbeque.
4 days of food is the rule and it will keep you in good shape.
Brown was good enough to handle the aftermath of every previous disaster...including 9/11. The Democrats were determined to use Katrina as a club to defeat and destroy Bush and they succeeded.
BS. You’re just repeating Democrat talking points. Brown oversaw the aftermath of every previous hurricane and disaster during the Bush administration, Including 9/11. I am so sick of these repeated lies.
see #49
see #49
Oh, I agree about that.
Republicans have to FORCE the MSM to report news; they certainly won’t do their jobs.
I went to Bush’s homecoming here in Midland yesterday. He gave a great speech. Witty, charming, relaxed, well-spoken.
The whole time I got mad at Bush, thinking, “where was THIS guy for 8 years?”
Worst communication — EVER.
Its all about spin. The MSM, liberals, and Democrats successfully portrayed the Katrina debacle as ALL GWB’s fault. That’s it, in a nutshell.
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If the governor and the mayor had been one tenth as resourceful as the young man who commandeered ( I prefer that word to stole) a bus and drove a load of people to safety things would have been much different. I have never imagined there existed such a bunch of helpless nitwits as some of the people of Nawlins who showed up to complain on TV.
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