Posted on 09/03/2005 10:12:13 PM PDT by neverdem
True.
;-)
bttt
"I'm sorry that you can't take the time to read my post before attacking."
We did read your post.
Admittedly, this one 'reads' better.
Thank you.
But there was an F-117A shot down.
ONLY one though.
bttt
It should be under the military.FEMA rolls in a disaster. Our military is primarily to protect the country from foriegn invaders, but when they are let loose in something like NO or Iraq they distinguish themselves like no other org.
Not red cross or sally or any others.
A suitcase nuke would probably cause more turmoil but the damage would be minuscule in comparison.
All the Arabs in the world do not have the power to tear up 90,000 square miles of America.
Oh you mean, "Why can't we just get along?" Your post history had only two tracks. Your #2 attempted to pointedly insult and degrade the mentioned US military mission, as if one "needed to be there" for soppy understanding, Frau GerryKan. So, stick your snotty drivel back in your cocked hat...now, do we understand the measure of disdain, punk?
I will correct my last- it was your first post on this site, not the second. Now, pizz off back to FRG.
Now, that I've re-read your acrid retort- I see that you typically condescend and yet, snidely pose to be a victim. Just wondering- does your neck get stiff, along with a headache? Vision blur unexpectedly? Sporadic digital/limb numbness? Unaccountable rashes?
Our federal, state and local governments are too large and bureaucratic to help people after a disaster. There are too many military officers and civilian feds arguing over turf to care for dying people in an emergency.
With a cumbersome pile of red tape as described in this article, we should simply conclude THE GOVERNMENT WILL NOT HELP YOU until all of its forms and procedures are complete.
That we all may be dead by then is beside the point!
The mountain of procedures and paperwork must be followed and the dying be damned!
America was better prepared BEFORE 9/11 and the Dept. of Homeland Security was created!
Thanks Congress and the President for making disaster assistance more complicated and delayed than ever!
The turmoil is what we are up against.
"The government" is a united system of local, State and National governments "of the people and by the people," under the rule of law that is the Constitution.
The local and State - and even 'the people' - failed to trigger the forces available to them and refused to recognize that they were over their heads in order to call out the National forces.
Would any of us have the President of the United States move the Army into cities before *every* form is followed?
Today, the story of Mrs. Floritta on Fox showed us what a grown up, even with limited resources, can do when she determines that she is responsible for herself.
If those who could had evacuated and those who couldn't, like Mrs Floritta, had either stored up water and food for themselves or reported to the shelters with the suggested 3 days' rations, the story would be different, wouldn't it?
The only people who would have required urgent rescue would have been those who were in the path of the moving water and trapped in attics. The only ones who would have been killed would have been those whose attics actually flooded.
Go away.
He's gone.
Thanks. He was getting in the way of me praising the lady, I think it was "Eula Mae," who was just shown on Fox. She had been taking care of herself and her house all this time.
In the meantime, all these resources and all these people are sitting there gently offering suggestions as how the Guv should act and what she needs to do, but she's apparently too thick to get it (or perhaps too frightened to relenquish control).
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