Posted on 09/06/2005 8:50:50 AM PDT by jbwbubba
Women, children and minorities first since they always suffer most in a catastrophe or disaster...
"I'm sure you would be happy to tell us who were going to go first..."
Allow Me. First Come, First Served.
Riots? Like there weren't any?! It was called looting, in this case.
So in your mind, the buses are knee-deep in water, and this is how you think it should be. In your mind, no attempt should have been made to use them to rescue the people who are now dead, because they might have been killed or injured in a "possible" riot.
Why doi you imagine a riot, when the people were not even alarmed enough to walk or ride a bicycle to higher ground?
The evacuation should have been mandatory.
In your mind, the buses could not have made multiple trips in the days preceding the hurricane's arrival.
In your mind, it was not worth the risk in lives to attempt to recue them. Therefore, instead of possibly being saved, they are now 100% dead.
Are you unaware that New Orleans' own guidebook required using public transportation for evacuation purposes? Would you object to using the buses to rescue the invalids, or would that pose too much of a "danger" for your tastes?
And if the police were not so busy throwing down their badges and looting the local Wal-Mart, perhaps they could have helped keep order.
Yet so did FEMA.
FEMA director should resign and if not be fired.
Make several trips in those busses. Everyone knew that Katrina was a massive storm. NOLA had time to get the job done. And I am sure they could have requested more transportation.
The mayor just couldn't use all those school buses.
He was planning to rebuild the Lousiana bayou and create an artificial 'reef' for the wildlife in Lake Nagin.
"In scripted appearances being recorded now, officials such as Mayor Ray Nagin, local Red Cross Executive Director Kay Wilkins and City Council President Oliver Thomas drive home the word that the city does not have the resources to move out of harm's way an estimated 134,000 people without transportation."
The operative words aren't "does not have the resources", it's "won't use the resources"
BTW: What's the repair bill on the 1500 or so flooded buses?
There's nothing like watching a plan come together.
Who cares? It's BUSH's FAULT!
Headline in NY Times:
It was 2000 buses.
2000 x 50 = 100,000
Two(2) runs would have been enough to evacuate ALL of them.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1478502/posts
"In the event of a major hurricane, you're on your own."
The left has successfully created an under class of citizens who rely totally on the government for food, clothing, shelter and medical care. When the city was evacuated, it became immediately apparent that there was a large segment of the population that was unable and/or unwilling to do anything for themselves, and they became wards of the state. Self-reliance flies in the face of everything the left and Democrats hold to be sacred: the government is everything and individual effort is immoral and futile. If the Democrats were in power, this would be characterized as a tragic natural event, but with the Republicans in power, it will be a rallying point for political confrontation and the promise of a cradle-to-grave, paternalistic caretaker government.
Didn't you hear?
Nagin said, just lately, that he sent buses with sirens and cops through the neighborhoods to evacuate people.
Did you hear about any resulting riots at the pickup locations? I haven't.
Anyway....If they started evacuating early enough before the storm, why would there have been riots?
Agreed.
But Adam Housley on Fox News just reported that he just talked to N.O. Police officers who were stranded in high water and asked for help from the Mayor, but NOBODY CAME TO HELP.
So..... he didn't even save his own Police Force!
Of course you're right.
It was better to leave them all there since there were no problems with doing that.
I understand they held church services in Thanksgiving for being saved from the storm after it passed.
so should that pudpounder Chertoff. Hell, they could get some other zombie to replace him, or a drunk monkey on rollerskates. What a freakin waste he has been; in fact, he's poured gasoline on the fire of the "administration is clueless" chant every time he's opened his mouth and showed his gruesome face.
Yes. Agree 100% Chertoff was atrocious.
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