Posted on 10/20/2009 8:13:57 PM PDT by james500
Under Cuba's communist system, the government calls all the shots all the time — but during monster hurricanes that may not be such a bad thing, New Orleans' mayor says.
In an interview during his six-day trip to Cuba's capital to study the island's disaster-response system, Ray Nagin told The Associated Press that "one of the biggest weaknesses we had during Hurricane Katrina is it wasn't clear who was the top authority."
"The president and the governor were going back and forth. ... in Cuba you don't have that problem," Nagin said Tuesday evening. "The government says, 'This is what we're doing, these are the resources we are going to deploy,' and it pretty much happens."
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"I think they do a much better job than we do on knowing their citizens at a very, very detailed level, block by block," Nagin said.
In Cuba, Revolutionary Defense Committees on nearly every corner watch their neighbors. They help with evacuations and provide social services such as vaccinations, but also are supposed to report any behavior considered subversive.
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I am speechless. Totally speechless at Mayor Chocolate city praising a communist totalitarian government.
Though it confirms one thing, namely, that he wasn’t taking charge of anything during Katrina. He looked to the governor and the president to make decisions. He took no initiative for his own city, and we see that he didn’t think he was supposed to; that it was somebody else’s job.
Nagin: I didn’t know what decisions I was allowed to make, therefore, I didn’t make any.
Governor Blanco - never heard of him/her, governor of what state? No, I didn’t call her, I called Ghostbusters.
What is it with these damn democrats and their attraction with communism?
They are NOT democrats ....
Universal and equal misery is the outcome of Communitarionism!!!
It kills the human spirit and freedom!!!
But you already knew that, right?
He still doesn’t understand that the governor is in charge at the state level, until she picks up the phone and calls the president and says, “Mr. President, I need your help.”
The worst thing that happened to Lousiana was not Katrina, but Nagin and Blanco. And unfortunately the people of New Orleans were not smart enough to remove Nagin when they had the chance.
They deserve him.
LOL!!! Gee, Ray. Ya think?
“He still doesn’t understand that the governor is in charge at the state level, until she picks up the phone and calls the president and says, “Mr. President, I need your help.””
I completely agree. It must have taken a lot of effort on the part of the MSM to avoid this undeniable fact.
“And unfortunately the people of New Orleans were not smart enough to remove Nagin when they had the chance.They deserve him.”
There are conservatives in New Orleans, they’re just strongly outnumbered by plantation democrats. They don’t deserve Nagin any more than you deserve Obama.
They the conservatives of New Orleans should have seen the writing on the wall and left New Orleans.
If the atmosphere of a community is so distasteful and hostile, how can they possibly live there?
It was bad before Katrina. How can they stand it, today?
They saw how bad it was before, and he is still there.
The New Orleans that they loved will never return. It is lost.
Nutless Nagin should look at Houston’s example, not Cuba’s. Mayor White (Democrat) worked with the county and state authorities to make Ike as painless as possible.
Nagin sat on his thumbs while thousands died.
He should do the honorable thing and MOVE to Cuba.
And take his Katrina criminals and parasites with him.
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