Current Events — HabitableZone

Current Events » in reply to still

Never said the locals were blameless
DL — (archived)

However, at some point you have to accept a simple fact: if NO is wiped off the map, at what point do you stop blaming NO for not 'coping' with the disaster well enough?

Its not like they sat there playing Eskimo Nose Flutes- they got 100,000+ people who had no way to get out of town into the superdome and convention center, and evacuated 300,000+ people out of the city.

Thats a hell of a lot more than what the feds did all the way up[ through 4-5 days after the storm.

But you are also propagating one of the Big Lies:
"t is not the nature of the Fed to grab control of a situation from locals unless their help is demanded or at least requested."

The governor of LA WROTE to the Bush administration BEFORE the storm requesting a full federal response. She directly told bush in the immediate aftermath: 'Give us everything you've got'.

Maybe no official forms were signed in triplicate, but its clear that the locals were asking for federal help long before the storm hit.

Like I told Tom: When a governmental agency starts offering its legal limitations of powers as an excuse for failing, worry. Nobody is asking for a more authoritarian FEMA, just one that will do its job.

DL

Log in or register to post.

The whole thread (84 posts)