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"They did 100,000 people left in the city because this federal government won't support cities to evacuate people, whether it's from earthquakes, tornados, or hurricanes. That's the truth, and that will come out in the hearings."

Excuse me, but is anyone here fluent in gibberish?

Let me translate:

While on vacation, Bush should not have been engaging in such leisurely activities as meeting with foreign leaders and rallying out troops against the terrorists. He instead should have moved to Louisiana, obtained a commercial driver's license, and purchased his own private bus (and insure it, of course, doing all with his private fortune); he should have encouraged his senior administration officials to do likewise.

If he had done so, then he would have the resources to evacuate the City of New Orleans personally. But Bush hates blacks and despises mass transit; therefore, he did not take a second job as a bus driver while on vacation, even though he plotted the destruction of New Orleans years in advance. Bush is evil; he will be impeached and convicted for his failure to evacuate the City of New Orleans personally, and then tried for mass murder by super hurricane and put to death.

"They did 100,000 people left in the city because this federal government won't support cities to evacuate people, whether it's from earthquakes, tornados, or hurricanes. That's the truth, and that will come out in the hearings."

Excuse me, but is anyone here fluent in gibberish?"

Excuse me. I speak gibberish.

She means that the mean-spirted, racist Republicans have never offered sufficient support for public transportation so that we could have provided evacuation transportation to the disenfranchised using only municipal transit buses. To use school buses to evacuate the disenfranchised would be an insult to their dignity. As one wise woman said, school buses are for children.

Therefore, unless you have enough buses suitable for adults available (either municipal buses or Greyhound buses brought in by FEMA), any evacuation at all risks harming the fragile self image of the disenfranchised. You will end up leaving some behind, and it is wrong for some to be rescued when all will not eb rescued. Or you will end up using yellow school buses in order to evacuate soem of the disenfranchised, and this results in harm to the dignity of those who are evacuated using yellow school buses.

Furthermore, if you try to do a thorough evacuation of everyone who cannot afford transportation out of New Orleans , you will need to use many people as drivers who are not certified or licensed to drive the buses you ask them to drive. If accidents occur, as is likely to happen in so massive an undertaking, the local government and perhaps the State government are taking on liability risk that no one should be asked to take on. Furthermore, a thorough evacuation would involve using non-Union drivers, and would also inevitably involve violation of Union work rules by Union members who are made to drive longer than the union rules permit.

When all of these factors are considered, the decisions made at the local level are entirely understandable and appropriate. The job of those in local government is to stay out of trouble and avoid risk and liability. It is not to "save lives" at all costs in the reckless manner of a John Wayne.

See, I can speak gibberish very well.

When she says they "did 100,000 people" what does she mean, exactly?

Excuse me, but is anyone here fluent in gibberish?

"They did 100,000 people left in the city because this federal government won't support cities to evacuate people, whether it's from earthquakes, tornados, or hurricanes. That's the truth, and that will come out in the hearings."

According to bablefish (in french)

"ils ont fait 100.000 personnes à gauche dans la ville parce que ce gouvernement fédéral ne soutiendra pas des villes pour évacuer des personnes, s'il est des tremblements de terre, des tornades, ou des ouragans. C'est la vérité, et cela viendra dehors dans les auditions."