Re: OT: Re: Additional info on funds reductions for NO flood projects

Susan <nevermind@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
|| x-no-archive: yes
||
|| BJ in Texas wrote:
||
||| At least my cites and factual newspaper articles printed
||| before
||| the current situation.
||
|| Well, data are data, no matter their date, right? They're
|| either accurate or not.
||
|| That said, I have no love for
||| politicians, nor
||| do I have any love for those that try of distort fact for
||| their
||| own
||| political or financial gain. Checkout the background of your
||| cite.
||
|| I did check out their backgrounds, that's why I posted it.
|| Not politicians, for whom I have a healthy distrust as well.
||
|||
||| My point being that funding in 8 to 10 years ago could have
||| had
||| some impact on the current situation.
||
|| Could have, sure, I didn't debate it. I think, though, that
|| a) this is OT on this group and shold be labeled as such and
|| b) it's not as simple as Dems/Reps, which is where the
|| point/counterpoint seems to lead.
||
|| It's about a nation ignoring the crumbling infrastructure
|| that engineers have been warning us about for decades at
|| least. We just got an enormous tax cut with more to follow,
|| blew through a surplus at the expense of public safety in
|| this critical area.
||
|| Funding in 2003, while
||| important and needed, would not have even been in the
||| implementation
||| phase at this point and would have likely had little impact
||| on
||| the current
||| situation.
|||
||| Checkout the following link, sorry you will need Quicktime
to
||| access it.
||| http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/video/3204/q02.html.
||| Despite the information presented here. The city, state and
||| federal
||| governments had no plans in place to deal with the situation
||| This information
||| was old when the video was made last year I believe due to
||| the reference
||| to last years storm. There should have been plans in place
to
||| handle a
||| situation such as this many years ago. The FDR, Truman,
||| Eisenhower,
||| Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Bush(41), Clinton
||| and
||| GWB
||| administrations all dropped the ball in planning, along with
||| the
||| state and local
||| politicians, and the local people themselves. The mayor of
||| Baton
||| Rouge
||| put in nicely when he admited that he would wait for the
||| federal government
||| rather than impact the city budget.
|||
||| The national media is running around ignoring the many
||| private
||| and small
||| organization efforts. They want to know where are the
||| marines,
||| the federal
||| government (fema) and red cross can not move as quickly as
we
||| would like.
||| They also conviently ignore the fact that many
||| military/national
||| guard resources
||| are tied up doing rescue work in the flooded areas. It is
||| easier
||| to get fodder
||| for the national news by filming at the Superdome. The
||| Superdome
||| which
||| without the flooding would have likely been adequate, but
||| when
||| the flooding
||| started quickly becase a failure. Where was the local
||| evacuation
||| plan.
|||
||| BJ
||
|| Our national guard and all our resources are in Iraq. Small,
|| private and local organizations cannot be expected to meet
|| the needs of those affected by such a huge disaster, that's a
|| federal job.
||
|| You can't avoid being shocked that only 4 days after the
|| disaster we're just *beginning* to make efforts at
|| *organizing* a response, can you?
||
|| It's a horror, there's no excuse for it in America, I don't
|| care which color state you're from or how you voted.
||
|| FTR, I won't ever contribute to the Red Cross until there's
|| some centralized auditing and accountability. I will
|| contribute to Catholic Charities and Habitat for Humanity.
||
|| Susan

The response has been organizing since before the storm hit.
Granted the type of response needed and the magnitude was
not understood. Much has been in place since before Monday.
Many resources have been occupied in aiding those the most
in need, those stranded by the flood. Those you see whining on
the news get the press because they are the most available. They
have needs and will be tended to as soon as those with greater
need are tended.

I was kind of sickened seeing a fat but otherwise healthy lady
with a
camera stuck in her face yelling because she had not ate in
5 days, that was 3 days after the storm struck. What did she do
to tend to her own short-term needs? She didn't care about those
in more need.

BJ
--
"If English was good enough for Jesus Christ, it's good enough
for Texas." - Miriam "Ma" Ferguson, Texas governor (1920s)


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