Why couldn't these school busses be used to evacuate them to another city? That would have solved several problems. First it would would have evacuated people out of NO. Second it would have prevented water damage to those vehicles. Third, it would allow those busses to be used after the hurricane to bring in aid workers.
"Why couldn't these school busses be used to evacuate them to another city?"
And people were asking that before that picture showed up.
Probably too many people concerned with union and school board regulations;but basically just Americans have a crazy belief that bad things hapen somewhere else,not HERE!
The problems here begin at the city level, and a I believe any truly objective analysis would confirm that. The mayor lost all credibility with his defeatist "blame everyone but me" tirade. It was the transparent rant of someone who knew he'd f'ed up.
But don't you see, this way the school board got to save all those fuel and depreciation costs that they would have had to shoulder had those buses been used, the Teamsters who would have driven those buses full of storm victims would still be able to collect their overtime and hazard pay without having to actually do anything, the city can now demand that the feds replace all of those buses by sending them a blank check so they and the unions have ample opportunity to skim off a big fat "bonus" for all their "hard work" (and then whine that the feds didn't send enough), and finally, the Dims get to blame President Bush for not lifting a finger to help those people in the Superdome.
It doesn't get much better than that if you're a democrat!