Or they could have used these and saved people AND their buses.
Posted on 09/01/2005 9:33:54 PM PDT by PhilipFreneau
Tonight on Nightline, during an inteview with the FEMA director, Ted Koppel demanded to know why the Bush Administration did not send fleets of buses into New Orleans to evacuate those too poor to evacuate themselves -- PRIOR TO KATRINA HITTING NEW ORLEANS.
For previous hurricanes the Federal Government did not participate in evacuations, only in clean up and recovery. That did not seem to matter much to Koppel since he obviously knew that Mike Brown was too much of a gentleman to smack him for attempting to deceived the American people.
However, Koppel does have a point, in a way. The Bush Administration should have known the Louisiana and New Orleans governments would be too incompetent to do anything right, and should have planned for it.
Disgusting . The best the libs can do in a disaster is to play politics..USELESS
LOL! Yes ... and new Nikes to walk out of town!
"It is the responsibility of the States and local governments to plan for disasters. FEMA is invited in and is really only suppose to serve as a back up not first source of aid. Poor evacuation planning is not the fault of the Federal Gov't. How are they suppose to know the needs of every community?"
You're absolutely correct; but demrats and libs NEVER let truth stand in the way.
Maybe someone at Emergency Management should of subscribed to National Geographic:
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0410/feature5/
Even better, though, was Koppel's interaction with the reportette who was detailing the many private acts of charity in the area. He looked stunned and actually asked her if she had any idea why people were being so generous. That question alone just shows how out of touch the Beltway and NYC people are concerning the people who really make the country work. In their minds, it is only the Government that will be able to provide the answers. Yes, the Federal government will be greatly involved in repairing roads, helping restore the port of New Orleans and providing quick supply relief. But it is the people in the immediate area and the nameless public across the country who will provide the long term solutions these people will need to establish themselves again in the long term.
Also, a thought occurred to me regarding this charge that the damage is due to the cutting of FEMA and Army Corps of Engineer money that could have reinforced the levees. Perhaps there is some truth to that. The warning for this disaster have been coming with increasing urgency for 40 years. But.....even if the money had been in place, does anyone think they could have even started construction on reinforcing the levees by this point? Of course not - they'd still be in court fighting the Sierra Club and the environmental leftists wailing about the potential threat to the Gulf or some species no one has ever heard about or would miss if it was gone. We'd have impact study after impact study followed by lawsuit after lawsuit followed by bewilderment at dead bodies caught up in trees after the hurricane that didn't wait for the resolution of the legal battle!
Well said .
Congressman Billybob
Latest column: "Tide of Lies Swamps NY Times: Employees Riot and Steal Office Supplies"
On all the carpers whining that the national guard isn't there yet, which part of the roads being out because the bridges are gone don't you understand?
The government did its job, the people did not do theirs. The blame belongs squarely on the shoulders of the rioters, nowhere else. I repeat, nowhere else.
Stop the blame games and the averted eyes, stop the useless whining, stop the backbiting. Pitch in yourself or shut the fuck up.
I emailed him. He all but came out and said blood on Bush Admin hands since they let people die after hurricane.
This is the worst attack. EMAIL HIS SORRY BUTT!
I did!!! He is pathetic. This is a taste of what is to come tomorrow and in the days ahead. This is the libs next attempt to destory our country! Ted did not even mention the heros who were shot at. Or the rapes that happened in Dome last night. Sick Sick LIBERAL MEDIA!!
Or they could have used these and saved people AND their buses.
This is quite the exaggeration. It didn't even exist a week before it hit. Advisories were started on it as a Tropical depression in the Bahamas at 5PM on August 23rd, and it hit the morning of August 29th.
Exactly ... I don't know how he takes all the blame for everthing. I'm wondering if he gets in trouble at the WH for not taking out the rubbish on pick up day.
Not that what Koppel thinks matters for anything, but why do the Democrat Mayor of New Orleans and the Democrat Governor of Lousiana get a pass on the blame game? Aren't they supposedly the first line of defense for citizens there?
Can you imagine if Bush went before a TV Camera blubbering his eyes out like Blanco did?
>>> "Oh, brother. Right...Bush should know exactly which cities will have the commonsense to respond to which emergencies and with 24 hours notice have buses down there. Get a grip!" <<<
I was being facetious, Siena.
I would love to know how people would look at this if Clintoon was in office?? Just a thought.
LOL, so YOU'RE the guy who watches Nightline.
LOL!
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