the point i was making about lowry's piece is that he excuses the fed response by saying
But, in fairness, FEMA is not organized to handle a catastrophe of this size.”
what if we had a dirty bomb attack? are we not prepared for a large scale catastrophe? only little ones, in this great nation of ours?
Why after Billions of Fed dollars pumped into the State of Louisianan to prepare for this type of disaster did the 1st Responders and 2nd Responders so totally fail to do their part of the job? How is FEMA responsible for the failures of the Locals? The are the 1st and second responders to ANY crises. FEMA is a THIRD responder. Not only do they have to manage resources everywhere, they have have to GET across the devastation zone TO get to NO. Things were actually moving along until they start shooting at the Rescuers! That is a Public Safety issue that the City of NO and the STATE have responsibility for under the plan.
I know a LOT of people do not want to believe this but the Govt cant do everything for everyone right this second.