--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In a message dated 9/4/05 5:50:55 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > So neither the governor nor the mayor had a plan to rescue or > > evacuate NO poor. > > Oh, how odd, somehow everything else in my post > must have dropped off somehow. > > > > > Yeah , I saw the whole thing the first time. Still , they never had a game > plan other than saying"you're on you own, get out". Somebody drives those > school buses five days a week. Saturday could have been a mandatory work day in > an emergency for those drivers or there could have been designated drivers > preplanned to drive preplanned evacuation routes. Still, they wouldn't have > saved everybody because people are stubborn , stupid or hard headed and just > aren't going to leave. However, it would have given those that did want to get > out, but had no transportation or money or whatever a lot of the other excuses > were, an opportunity to get to a public shelter out of the city. With proper > planning they could have moved tens of thousands in a 40 or 45 hour period. > Buses could have even been brought in from out lying school districts if the > governor ordered it. Still a lack of planning.
You know, a moment's reflection should tell you that, given they knew how many people there were without transportation, and that they *did* have plans to deal with the problem, it isn't very likely that there were better solutions of the kind you suggest that they hadn't already considered and rejected for good reason, or that were clearly not feasible in the first place. They know what their resources are and what's possible and what isn't; you don't. If we had some kind of evidence that they had simply brushed the problem off, or hadn't known it existed, you might have a point. But not only do we not have such evidence, we have very solid evidence to the contrary. This is just common sense, which seems to be in extremely short supply on the wingnut side of the equation. Moreover, increasing numbers of *responsible* conservatives, including previous fans of Bush, are recognizing where the real failure lies and aren't attempting desperately to pin all the blame on local authorities. The knee-jerk wingnuts like yourself and Shemp who continue to maintain their state of denial are becoming more and more isolated. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
