Your analysis is just wrong. Wrong to be on the list, and wrong otherwise.
As with ANY political fiasco, there are many facets to the story. Unless
you know most, you are simply not qualified to comment. Simply sitting your
___ in front of FOX does not make you qulified in the least to comment,
although it might make you slightly more informed than the morons you are
rooting for.
1. Undoubtedly everybody screwed up.
2. This was actually a successful evacuation. You should go back and
research the recent efforts for the near-miss events of the past 3 or 4
years.
3. I doubt you know anything about the legal responsibilities of the the
levee districts and their co-ordination with the US A Corps of Engineers.
Stifle your comments unless you know the truth. Your knowledge of the the
casino is wrong.
4. The Bush administration has been exposed for it's incompetence and
willingness to appoint "Nothingburgers" to office. I offer Chertoff, Brown,
as well as Rice, maintaining Tenet, etc. For more, see the articles in the
papers today about their appointment for the head of the morph that used to
be Immigration. A 36 year old lawyer woman who hasn't held a single job for
more than 24 months... See also "unfunded mandates" such as no child left
behind, and perhaps even that little reported event - IRAQ as examples of
foresight and leadership.
5. Regardless of how the locals screwed up, the feds are part of the plan to
get relief in after the storm. The locals had supplies for what was planned
for, the feds and likely the state, dropped the plan.
6. Compare with the Bush administration's masterful handling of the looting
in Baghdad in the hours and days after the "victorious" conqueration(?) of
Iraq.
7. The only thing that was missing from that idiot's speeches in and around
New Orleans in the aftermath was a declaration that he was waiting for the
people of New Orleans to draft a new constitution.
8. You fail to mention what part of the country you call home. Thank your
lucky stars and hug your baby, say a prayer that YOU aren't reliant on the
FEDS for relief from a catastrophy. You simply have no idea of the scope of
the disaster down there.
9. Once the US military was finally tasked to deal with things, amazing
stuff started to happen.
10. Leadership DOES NOT EXIST in the EXECUTIVE branch.
BTW, I was a resident of New Orleans for 35 of the past 39 years. My family
made it out OK, they lost 6 of 9 houses.
Lee Estingoy
Overland Park, KS
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lighthorse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Soaring @ airage.com" <soaring@airage.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 10:51 AM
Subject: [RCSE] WHO IS RESPONSIBLE ?
I just ran across this and thought it interesting
WHO IS RESPONSIBLE
In case you aren't familiar with how our government is SUPPOSED to work:
The chain of responsibility for the protection of the citizens in New
Orleans is:
1. The Mayor
2. The New Orleans director of Homeland Security (a political
appointee of the Governor who reports to the Governor)
3. The Governor
4. The Head of Homeland Security
5. The President
What did each do?
1. The mayor, with 5 days advance, waited until 2 days before he
announced a mandatory evacuation (at the behest of the President).
Then he failed to provide transportation for those without transport
even though he had hundreds of buses at his disposal.
2. The New Orleans director of Homeland Security failed to have any
plan for a contingency that has been talked about for 50 years. Then
he blames the Feds for not doing what he should have done. (So much!
for political appointees)
3. The Governor, despite a declaration of disaster by the President 2
DAYS BEFORE the storm hit, failed to take advantage of the offer of
Federal troops and aid. Until 2 DAYS AFTER the storm hit.
4. The Director of Homeland Security positioned assets in the area to
be ready when the Governor called for them
5. The President urged a mandatory evacuation, and even declared a
disaster State of Emergency, freeing up millions of dollars of federal
assistance, should the Governor decide to use it.
Oh and by the way, the levees that broke were the responsibility of
the local landowners and the local levee board to maintain, NOT THE
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
The levee board had extra money so they bought a casino and a jet
airplane to travel around in.
The disaster in New Orleans is what you get after decades of corrupt
(democrat) government going all the way back to Huey Long.
--
Ken
York County Soaring
"Lighthorse" Team YCS
Silence is Golden
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