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Please read jeffers' post#106. I wish all public officials and others would at least read it, shut up, and mull over what he says there whether they agree with it entirely or not.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1474387/posts?page=106#106

A small snippet:

This is a huge disaster, and it is important for America to learn how to think big. If you aren't capable of walking past ten dying people to save 100 dying people, then at the very least, stay out of the way of those who can.

You know what the price is, if you don't.

When you start thinking big, you start understanding that one person doesn't count anymore. Not the mayor, not the governor, not even President Bush. Bush will not fix this, the New Orleans police will not fix this, and the National Guard will not fix this.

They aren't big enough.

Three hundred million American people are going to fix this, or else it isn't going to get fixed.

So for all the sidewalk superintendents, all the finger pointers, all those who would grab political power over this, I have one very simple question.

Do you stand with us, or are you going to just stand in the way?

There's a lot of truth there. I think maybe his figures are high on the death count, because I think a whole lot more people in NO survived than maybe we thought.

But this shows so many weaknesses in our own systems.

And I knew from day one that the repercussions were tremendous. All of the gulf coast until you get to the other side of Mobile is hurt horribly.

7 refineries shut down.

Lots of oil rig damage.

The Port of New Orleans out of commission (and a huge amount of trade went through it.

I even knew that coffee would go up. I grew up near one of the largest Folger's plants in the country - one of the favorite smells of my childhood.

Where do you put the over half a million people displaced? We have never had to deal with so many people who lost their homes so quickly?

I think everybody shell-shocked. If they don't get it moving today, Lord help us.