I don't think it is a hit piece.
I've read a lot of hit pieces that I wouldn't post except to ridicule but I would not call this a hit piece.
We need to ask our government to function.
It functioned in Texas, so we know states can react to an emergency but the coordination between different levels of government needs to be set on a clearer course.
Our ancestors didn't ask the government to save them. They knew better. They had the skills and common sense to take care of themselves. What they didn't have is modern satellite weather forecasts of hurricanes and television sets to warn everyone.
I can only imagine our ancestors' opinions after realizing we were clearly warned as to what was coming and thousands did nothing to escape the slow-moving storm. After those thousands ignored such disaster warnings, they sat paralyzed and helpless and waited for somebody else to do something to ease their plight.
Able-bodied men refused to help their grandmothers and children to evacuate a city clearly in the path of a killer hurricane. If necessary, thousands of these people could have easily outwalked the approaching storm while it was hundreds of miles away.
This is a national failure of self-reliance on a massive scale.
Our society does not have much of a future when huge numbers of our people cannot save themselves from dangers known well in advance.
This story is not about government at all. It is about generations of sloth and irresponsibility.
A country founded on self-reliance and independence has become a nation shamed by a massive, helpless and ungrateful underclass who apparently cannot wipe their own rear ends without government's help.