I think the biggest breakdown in America is in the educational system. How is it so many people are so utterly IGNORANT of the way the Government works?
Because they have been taught to stand there with a big sob story and their hand out. It has worked for over 40 years. The welfare system and the "War on Poverty" have produced exactly what you are seeing on TV today in the shooters, looters, and the "mayor" and "governor" who are as clueless about doing their job as I would be trying to be Pope.
As a woman, I am utterly embarrassed by the chronic "deer in the headlights" posture of Blanco, and I think Nagin is waaaaayyy off his meds. Not sure if his meds are self prescribed, or if there really is a scrip involved, tho.
When able bodied men and women can lay for 3+ days next to or near dead bodies and not assemble enough of themselves to remove the dead person to a quiet corner or a higher row of nosebleed seats in the Superdome, it is beyond pathetic.
We have spent trillions of $$$ teaching these people that they can demand "services" from anyone or any part of government to satisfy their "needs", and they are mentally and emotionally crippled when the S*%t hits the moving blades.
I can still hear my dad saying: Do something when there is a problem or an emergency... EVEN IF IT IS DEAN WRONG...DO SOMETHING!!! He would be madder if we stalled out and did nothing at all. These people totally stalled out.
I don't see any reason to fire a single FEMA official or employee. I wouldn't go into what was rapidly becoming a battle zone unarmed, either. Why should I expect them to do so?
I'm with you. Common decency would be to move a dead body to a quiet corner and cover it. Make the old people as comfortable as possible. Use some of those blankets as shade for the women with children. Those big screaming men should be ashamed of themselves. Now Jesse was on tv today complaining and he will continue asking for reparations I am sure.In the whole convention center was there not one broom.