I always give to the Savation Army
Ah the Red Cross, spending money for themselves.
I have long since abandoned the Red Cross.
Once again another example of how the state of LA failed its people.
Well, let's not confuse the Bush haters with the facts okay?
One of the big problems for the relief effort is that there is no where to house the volunteers. They are awaiting Navy troop transport ships for housing. In addition all volunteers need to be innoculated prior to entering the destruction zone.
I heard that the Red Cross has a policy of not establishing shelters in areas where a hurricane is about to strike because they want people to evacuate - instead of remaining in the predicted disaster area. That sounds like common sense.
Sounds like they will only go in it when conditions merit that they are no longer needed.
I'm giving to the Salvation Army.
MARTY EVANS, RED CROSS PRESIDENT AND CEO
unreported- Marty Evans has requested/seeking about 10k body bags. Vitter mentioned it today but the RC has been quiet. Sad.
The Red Cross has a long history of embezzlement, sexual abuse, fraud, you name it. Just Google it, tons to dig through.
Obviously the Protestant aid organizations will do a better job than the others. But I don't fault the Red Cross so much in this situation.
There were a number of faults at the local and state level such as the following:
1. The mayor and governor should have made it very clear with strong language that everyone should evacuate the city before the storm.
2. The mayor should have made it clear that anyone seen that is still in the city after a certain time would be seized and taken by police to a school bus and transported out of there. The mayor explained that he didn't want to use his hundreds of school buses because they should be using Greyhound buses instead. I have never rode in a Greyhound bus, but I don't understand why he refused to use anything but the Greyhound buses that never showed up.
3. People could have been driven to a variety of locations where aid organizations and local governments could have taken care of them. This would have prevented the deaths, tens of thousands of people in a stinking superdone in New Orleans, and if the blacks were transported out of the city they would not have been allowed to loot, riot, rape, and shoot at police and others. They are still doing that and the blacks are going to fight tooth and nail to stay in the city now because they can continue their mayhem.
4. Lastly, it should have been made very clear that anyone shooting at police officers or anyone else would have immediate fire returned at them.
The above is not complicated. This incompetent Nagin (mayor) and the rest of the Democrats running New Orleans and Louisiana did absolutely nothing at all and have been just complaining that the federal government should have done it. Complete losers.
I don't respect the Red Cross at all but I wouldn't have gone in that city unarmed and unprotected either.
Boy, I'd like a more detailed explanation of that...