Posted on 09/05/2005 12:47:47 PM PDT by wildbill
Let them rent limos
One of the messages I've been receiving is that those people in New Orleans have only themselves to blame. They should have left when the evacuation was ordered.
For some that is probably true. New Orleans is a laid-back city. But for many, being told to evacuate was like being told to flap their wings and fly. Nearly one in four residents is below the poverty line. Many don't have cars.
Yet the evacuation plan was based on private autos. There was no mechanism to evacuate those without cars, much less those in nursing homes and hospitals.
Have they no cars? Let them rent limos.
It is no accident that the poor weren't included in evacuation plans, if anything that can seriously be called a plan exists.
(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...
You've got to be kidding.
Uh, the Mayor.
A man and a plan
but not a clue what to do.
The tendency for those of lower income and lower IQs to place their faith in the government to assist them goes hand-in-hand with the feeling among some in the elite classes of society that only the government can perform certain everyday functions (such as providing public transportation) for these unfortunates.
Reinforcing this, polticians of both parties promote costly public expenditures in rail transit as a way to improve the lives of those who don't own cars. In New Orleans, they also justify these projects as a way to attract tourists.
Not that anyone is seriously proposing it, but the money the nation's taxpayers and corrupt New Orleans politicians have dumped into just five miles of streetcar lines since the mid-1980s could have bought every low-income family in town a car -- and to heck with waiting for the bus that never comes.
There were not just "200 buses". There were 200 buses in just one photo and Freepers studying the post-Katrina satellite images have counted over 400 buses altogether at other city parking.
At 70 people per bus that is 28,000 people per round trip that could have been taken out of the storm surge area in the 48 hours prior the Katrina striking.
After the storm hit, what makes you think that buses sent from outside of New Orleans could drive through the flooded mess any better than the 145 New Orleans city buses that were parked 1.2 miles away from the Superdome?
Was Scotty supposed to beam the outside buses to the Superdome and them beam them back out so that they would not have to drive through impassable roads?
The time to evacuate those 200,000 low-income people on public buses OUT OF THE STORM SURGE ZONE was BEFORE the Category 4 storm struck.
That was what the Southern Louisiana Evacuation Plan for New Orleans specifically called for.
The Democrat Governor and the Democrat Mayor did NOTHING to carry out that portion of the plan. They left 200,000 low-income resident abandoned and they now blame the Federal Government for not having Scotty beam down a massive logistics effort after a human disaster of their own making.
Indeed. So there was a comfortable way to get out!
"You've got to be kidding."
Wish I was. In Somolia, I witnessed some poor creature hobble across a wasteland into Baderra to have a wooden *stake* removed from his foot. So I'm not very sympathetic to the "plight" of America's "poor" during Katrina - spoiled brats is more like it.
As another poster noted, thousands of *real* poor find a way across the Mexican border every year. So how hard can it really be to evac into Baton Rougue.
Simply unbelievable. I remember having cold MRE's that tasted like filet minot, LOL.
The Mayor was thinking about how many millions of dollars in lawsuits would result if one of these volunteer drivers ran off the road. Our legal system kills again.
-ccm
Mr Casey's "talents" are well-known to those unfortunate enough to read his columns in San Antonio as well as Houston...
http://www.publiustx.net/index.php?itemid=1115
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