Posted on 09/05/2005 12:47:47 PM PDT by wildbill
"And Democrats cannot manage a durn thing. Worst administrators in the world -- because they don't "plan" so much as "wish" for things to work out OK."
You are close, but I think more precisely it's that the "wish" to have power, and "plan" for nothing else.
The responsibility for this situation falls entirely on those who chose to live in New Orleans. The vulnerability of the city to a Katrina-like event was public knowledge. So was the incompetence of governemnts in general, and of the State and city governments in particular.
The cold, hard truth is simply that the poor knowingly gambled their lives and property--and lost the bet.
I emailed him too-- for all of the good it will do. It's just so easy to pull the race card when you're too lazy to research the facts.
Being a Democrat is all about feeling good, and caring. As long as you vote for those who care the most and make you feel the best, everything will be wonderful. I truly believe that the more liberal (i.e. loopy) a person is, the less she or he understands the law of cause and effect. The concept of logic is as foreign as ancient Aramaic to them.
I just did; sent him Gideon 7's great compilation...
Pictures 1 and 2, and 3 and 5 are different shots of the same bus yard. That leaves the impression that even more buses were ignored than actually were.
Evidently the lie supersedes the truth when it's coming from the left.
MY STATEMENT: I'm going to save $5,000 in 10 months.
MY PLAN: I'm going to save $500 a month for the next 10 months.
The differences, a statement gives an intention, a plan gives the means to accomplish the statement.
New Orleans:
THE STATEMENT: We will evacuate when a hurricane is coming in.
THE PLAN: We will use public vehicles to evacuate people who can not use their own vehicles.
Does this guy think we are stupid???
I just sent Rick an email as well...
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005
From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: New Orleans evacuation plan for "car-less"...
To: rick.casey@chron.com
In response to your 9/3/05 article "Is Katrina
whispering in our ears?", there was a plan to evacuate
the city (including the "car-less").
From N.O. city official website on Emergency
Preparedness (small excerpts below):
"II. CONCEPT OF OPERATIONS
Under the direction of the Mayor, the Office of
Emergency Preparedness will coordinate activities in
accordance with the Comprehensive Emergency Management
Plan to assure the coordination of training programs
for all planning, support, and response agencies.
Departments, authorities, agencies, municipalities,
and all private response organizations bear the
responsibility of ensuring their personnel are
sufficiently trained."
"D. Regional Transit Authority
* Supply transportation as needed in accordance with
the current Standard Operating Procedures.
* Place special vehicles on alert to be utilized if
needed.
* Position supervisors and dispatch evacuation buses."
Source:
http://www.cityofno.com/portal.aspx?portal=46&tabid=26
There were approximately 350 city buses and 400+
school buses. Assuming a reasonable capacity of 40
per bus and 750 buses, that translates into the
ability to transport 30,000 people per trip.
It appears the Mayor had a plan on paper, but there is
a catch...for whatever reason, he decided not to
implement it.
This also assumes people would get on the buses. Even
today, there are residents of New Orleans unwilling to
leave.
Sincerely,
Frank
No seatbelts for the chirrun? How could the busses be good enough for the chirrun but not good enough for the adults who were drowning.
I am quite sympathetic to the folks of New Orleans that have now found themselves in an awful situation like the one they face now. The "they didn't have a way to leave" statements can also be very true in the cases of amny of the elderly residents or those bound to wheelchairs etc.
Now, with respect to the rest of the thousands now displaced around the country, I've one very simple question... If someone came to your home and said to you "Sir/Ma'am, we have a situation going on in which there are two choices. You must find a way out of the city of New Orleans, or you will die, period... There is no chance of surviving, you will die..."
Maybe it's just me, I'd find a way out of the city... Those busses should have ABSOLUTELY been used as transport, but even if there were no busses, I'd have found a way...
Yes, we ARE stupid! Didn't you know that?
That's what I've been saying all along. Those vehicles and their owners shouldn't have been there--they should have been on the way out of town. Many of the people who got stuck in NO got stuck because they wouldn't take the warnings they were given and use their own resources to get out of town with the rest of the NO residents. That's just made caring for and evacuating those who really need government help far harder and the lives of the most needy and helpless that much more difficult.
I sent him an e-mail with the same info.
Funny, I bet that never bothered them on election day.
You probably know this already but the statement is a derivative of a statement most widely attributed to Marie Antoinette, who supposedly replied "let them eat cake" after being told that the poor had no bread to eat, before the French revolution.
She was beheaded after the revolution at the age of 37.
You are absolutely correct, and let's not forget, that it was only a 5 mile walk to safety, only an 8-10 mile walk to the airport - I used to walk 5 miles to school when I was a kid, I am sure some of these people could have used their own god given legs to get to high ground.....and safety!!!
"Who's in charge of making it happen?" Why, the executive, of course! The mayor and the governor. Probably the mayor, certainly the governor. What happens if the mayor and the governor don't think of it, and don't have aides that think of it? People die.That's why when you elect a president, or a governor, you should demand an executive resume. In '04 we had two main choices for POTUS:
It should be no surprise that the person with the big-time executive resume won. And it is no surprise that a Democratic Party which can nominate a senator to run against a sitting president can nominate people for Governor of Louisiana and for Mayor of New Orleans who simply are not big-time executives. People who fold under pressure, and whose instinct is to criticize rather than to do - for fear that others will second-guess them.
- a sitting senator who was formerly Governor Dukakis's backstop and - thirty years ago - commanded 19 men on a small navy boat.
- a sitting president and two-term governor of Texas, former businessman (and, incidentally, an officer and fighter pilot in the Texas Air National Guard).
Incredible! No one is bashing the poor, but the sad truth is that a welfare state encourages, no decreees, that we all become dependent on the nanny State. NO like many other places has generations entrapped in that failed ideology. Are their helpless people everywhere? Certainly. And it's the responsibility of families, friends, neighbors and even total strangers,not the government, to take care of people.
A lighter side of helping: Maybe it's because some of us come from rural and even redneck parts, with a different mind-set, but Texans love to give advice to outsiders. We prefer to identify them as "Yankees," and often "damn Yankees" inasmuch as it makes us feel better after having had our fannies whipped in The War of Northern Agression," (sone are nicer and just call it "that most recent unpleasantness.")but we keep long, informative lists for those from parts further north. The best of the lot for trying times:
"If you should skid off the road and find yourself stuck up to your axels in a muddy ditch, Do Nothing. Very soon three big strong burly local guys will come along in an old pickup truck. They'll be wearing boots and cowboy hats and sporting a three day five o'clock shadow. No need to be afraid, they'll have at least a case of beer with them already half consumed. They'll then get out all their logging chains which they always carry, and have you out of the mud in no time, not to mention, sending you on your way with the remainder of the beer. There is no need to do a single thing. Trust me, we have guys here who just LIVE for this."
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