It was poor planning but it was poor planning over decades that has made the situation so bad.
So, you're saying that making sure a prisoners "right" to a sex change should take a backseat to keeping up with infrastructure?
It's an imperfect world. And furthermore, I don't want the government planning every contingency for every possible event that could happen.
First, it would be cost prohibitive and second, it would eliminate what freedom that we have left.
Egggsackly. One may start by typing New Orleans Levee Board on search engine. In about 30 minutes of reading and related searches, one will be amazed at the incompetence and corruption of the state and local officials.
Yes. It is also assumed in the article that the Federal Gov't is solely responsible for Emergency Management and Planning. This is not true. Local gov'ts have a responsibility as do State gov'ts. Gov't and public service agencies usually coordinate in their disaster response planning and staging. What went wrong in N.O is that no one can truly plan for the human element. It is an individual's choice to refuse evacuation. It is an individual's choice to loot, create mayhem and threaten the safety of others. No way any amount of planning could have forseen that. If the mayor and governor of N.O had announced from the very beginning a zero tolerance for any looting and had a strong police presence. It might. I say might have helped. But bad people do bad things.
Yes. It is also assumed in the article that the Federal Gov't is solely responsible for Emergency Management and Planning. This is not true. Local gov'ts have a responsibility as do State gov'ts. Gov't and public service agencies usually coordinate in their disaster response planning and staging. What went wrong in N.O is that no one can truly plan for the human element. It is an individual's choice to refuse evacuation. It is an individual's choice to loot, create mayhem and threaten the safety of others. No way any amount of planning could have forseen that. If the mayor and governor of N.O had announced from the very beginning a zero tolerance for any looting and had a strong police presence. It might. I say might have helped. But bad people do bad things.