Not so fast... My understanding is that the W Hotel PAID for the buses to evacuate their guests. It is entirely fair for the Mayor to commandeer the buses with the understanding that the hotel guests would be evacuated ALONG WITH others to fill up the remaining capacity of the buses bought and paid for by the W Hotel. Those buses would not be there if the W Hotel had not provided them. It's a win-win.
Not so fast... My understanding is that the W Hotel PAID for the buses to evacuate their guests
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This is part of the problem. In a disaster you do not let a hotel pay for buses to evacuate their patrons and you do not let Jesse Jackson determine that buses will go get students at Dillard. You do not allow money nor politics to determine where the assets go.
But I guess from now on FEMA will have to concentrate its assets first where ever the press set up and the rest of the people maybe in more dire need can just die.
People needed to be gotten off roofs first in this thing. That is what I saw happening. The people in the shelters should have been safe, but since the people of N.O. could not behave in a disaster, they were not.