Re: Who is to Blame for the Katrina SNAFU?
- From: D. Wells <dwells38@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2005 17:36:36 GMT
On Sun, 04 Sep 2005 14:18:21 GMT, Voter <voter1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>On 4 Sep 2005 06:19:29 -0700, BrianEWilliams wrote:
>
>> I hear the usually liberal suspects bleating that Katrina is President
>> Bush's fault. Well let's take a quick look at this thesis. Last time
>> I checked, first responders are locally based. That means Democrat
>> Mayor Nagin was in charge of the first response, and that first
>> response sucked. Second responders are state-based, and Democrat
>> governor Blanco was in charge of the second response, and that second
>> response sucked. Third responders are federally based, and President
>> Bush is in charge of them. It is now less that 1 week after the storm,
>> and it does not seem unreasonable to say that the first response is the
>> first two days, and the second response is the next two days. That
>> means the federal, third response is less than 3 days old.
>>
>> Now you can definitely argue that an effective federal response was
>> probably about 24 hours too late, but you CANNOT ARGUE THAT THE THIRD
>> RESPONSE SUCKS. Our federal response might be slow, but it is not
>> incompetent. That argument cannot be made for the Democrat-controlled
>> local and state governments. They could have all the time in the
>> world, and their response would still suck because they are
>> incompetent, corrupt, and Democrats. I look forward to the
>> Congressional hearings, which will expose this truth to the light of
>> day.
>
>Then again, the Bush administration cut funding to those very programs that
>would have helped in the disaster. The money was taken from the flood
>control projects and spent on tax breaks and the Iraq war.
>
>It seems that your primary goal is to shift blame from Bush and the feds
>and place it on the locals.
>
>Bush, FEMA (brown), and the Department of Homeland Security (Chertoff) were
>well aware well before the hurricane hit that the results could be
>catastrophic.
IT's not their job to study New Orleans! That's the job of Louisiana
government. And that's why they were in the middle of a study to see
what it would take to beef up the levees to withstand a category 5.
That was supposed to be done in 2007.
>They did nothing. It is the responsibility of the federal
>government to be at the ready, prepared before hand for a disaster that
>they knew was imminent. But they did nothing.
What a dumbass. New Orleans is 300 years old. The Bush
Administration is 5 years old.
>
>If it makes you feel better to blame the local governments to make Bush
>look better, then go ahead.
If it makes you feel better to blame President Bush for acts of god
then go ahead.
>
>Those more responsible will ask why the federal system failed and try to
>fix it.
You aren't interested in fixing anything.
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