Nobody here cares what Ron Fournier has to say.
And this most certainly is NOT breaking news.
Gee, ya think the MSM would like a plate of the crowpie too..
FoR not more aggressively reporting the behind the scenes games that were played with people's lives , if at all.
If folks only knew what and how their taxdollars were bartered, allocated and spent on and for..
But that's another story the MSM will not want to do,, it involves all parties, including them, imo.
How come nobody ever mentions the word GOVERNOR - if this was happening in TEXAS, you can bet the first word on anybody's lips would be "the GOVERNOR is to blame".
But the first word is the WH - the Congress - but the Governor gets left off the responsibility list. Sad!
Especially state and local. It was their primary responsibility.
Breaking news? Give me a break.
Fournier and another one of his "head up his rear" 20/20 vision pieces.
MSM fails America by its blatant political bias.
I was just watching MSNBC and the situation is horrible. Babies dying in the New Orleans convention center (where people were told to evacuate) because of dehydration as there isn't any clean water to drink. Rotting corpses being eaten by rodents.
The GOVERNMENT is to blame. They should have had everybody evacuated from New Orleans already. I don't care if they had to use every schoolbus in Texas and Louisiana.
Now, the primary is the incompetent Democrat-controlled state government of Louisiana, and secondarily the Republican-controlled federal government. But you can bet your last dollar that the Republicans will get ALL the blame in the media.
We shouldn't forget that the inept response to Hurricane Andrew was a significant factor behind George H Bush's defeat in 1992.
**It wasn't a secret that levees built to keep New Orleans from flooding could not withstand a major hurricane**
But they did, the major breech is not on the levee's that took the worst of the storm on the lakeside but on an internal canal. If the levees is as bad as Liberals are charging then the entire levee system would of failed instead of just one or two breaks.
An unbiased view WOULD still blame government, but 100 years of government that continued to allow building in land mass that is under sea level and bordered by an enormous lake on the north and the largest river in North America on the south.
But unlike Ron Fournier, I haven't gotten the Bush Culpability Exaggerator chip implant yet, so I'm still looking at things the old fashioned way.
What a load of horse manure.
The anarchy, looting, hopelessness, and helplessness we are seeing in the aftermath of Katrina is the result of too many people always believing that government is watching out for them and will always be there to help them.
This master of the obvious would, obviously, have every contingency for every possible occurrence well in hand if he were in charge, rather than in his official capacity in the Judgment Seat over what others do wrong.
Hurricanes are forces of nature-period! Who ever the idiots are who seek to fix blame for the death and destruction along the gulf coast on politicians at any level of government or any political party whatsoever, are exposing their own adolescent perspective.
When man trys to corral nature, nature eventually exposes man for the puny pipsqueak he is.
Fournier and his ilk are in the way of those working to assist the victems and begin the recovery and rebuilding. Such bastards deserve no air time, ink or paper upon which to spew their poison of negativism.
So, it is up to the government to prepare for every possible disaster that may occur anywhere in the country, say, a comet hitting Chicago or a major volcanic eruption at Yellowstone which covers the entire western half of the country with ash and debris.
And, if every survivor is not rescued within 24 hours and provided w/ a hot meal, a new wardrobe, a new house, and a new job, it's the fault of the government!!
There is no way every disaster, natural or man made, can be prepared for. If we all knew what was going to happen next week, we could prepare for it, but we can't. Bad things happen and there is nothing anyone, including the most powerful people in our government, can do about it.
Wait a minute. Lake Ponchartrain is MAN MADE. Created in the 1920s, this lake is due to forcing the route of the Mississippi River.
Gee, whoever thought that up should........well, sigh.
http://www.stphilipneri.org/teacher/pontchartrain/section.php?id=79
What a bunch of crap...Just the Headline alone...
More of the entitlement headcase claptrap...
As if 'Politicians' are the Damn answer...
What a joke
If I was in NO and faced with that reality...I would blame myself not some IDIOT politician...
Just wondering how many articles Fournier penned over the years about the dangers of the levees in New Orleans.
This is not the fault of the government. Period, not federal at least.