Too many local and National politicians have been back-patting themselves for their meetings and plans, but at this stage of a crisis, the people need DOERS not planners, not politicians rushing to microphones to applaud themselves.
"This has turned into an unbelievable, incomprehensible fumble by officials/government personnel at all levels.
I can't believe the fiasco situation developing in Houston at the Astrodome. Surely, surely, the government officials could have realized the max capacity. This is turning into another example of 'stupid' on the Tex officials' parts.
These gulf refugees need a Guliani -- someone to take control and get things coordinated."
Well, the head of that stupid new agency, "Homeland Secrurity", Michael Chertoff keeps saying that supplies are there. WELL WHERE? He doesn't even have a clue what's going on. Where is the governor and the mayor? They're probably hiding out so they don't get lynched which they probably deserve. This is so disgusting and getting more disgusting by the hour!
We do need someone to take control and get things coordinated now but that's what all the planning was supposed to do. Somebody has been on the take and not doing their job and it includes not only the local and state government but the federal government as well.
Homeland Security should have been used for just terrorists attacks not national emergencies like this. There are so many people in charge that nothing is getting done.
People have lived for so long in a robust economy and market that they have forgotten what it takes to build from the bottom up without that market available to them.
Very few people consider the logistical consequences in orders of magnitude.
Instead, most people in positions of authority today, have inherited the logistical relationships from a previously built nation.