Would you want to move back into this city?
Flooded New Orleans
Posted on 12/09/2005 4:56:02 PM PST by digger48
CHARLOTTE, N.C. —
The nation's local leaders must press Congress and the Bush administration to improve the federal government's response to disasters before the lessons of Hurricane Katrina are forgotten, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said Friday.
"Everybody in this room should be concerned," Nagin told about 1,500 local officials at the annual meeting of the National League of Cities. "Everyone knows there's a certain amount of constipation in Washington. We need to be the Ex-Lax to bust through that."
Nagin said he worries that the federal government's attention has been diverted less than four months after the hurricane.
"Congress is focused on Iraq, budget deficits and they're making some very dangerous decisions" that are discouraging the reconstruction of New Orleans, he said.
New Orleans, state and federal officials have engaged in months of finger-pointing over the response to the Aug. 29 storm, which killed more than 1,000 people in the city and left tens of thousands more without food, water or any way to get out. About 80 percent of New Orleans was underwater at some point, and only about 100,000 of its 460,000 residents have returned home, Nagin said.
Speaking at a panel discussion along with a top Federal Emergency Management Agency official, Nagin repeated his charge that the federal government failed to help him after he did the best he could to evacuate the city.
Michael Lowder, FEMA's deputy director of response, said his agency "probably could have worked a lot closer, directly, with the mayor's office and the state" in evacuating people before the storm.
Lowder said the magnitude of the storm overwhelmed FEMA, even though it had much emergency aid ready in Louisiana and Mississippi before Katrina hit.
The man's utter class.
Here also (different title):
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1537285/posts
And yes, they are both Dems.
I gotta get my Jones off.
There is no reason the federal government should supply bail-out money while the corrent corrupt officials remain in power.
What an A.. Hole
Should know a lot about laxatives
Dang! How could I search to catch a different title like that in the future?
Nagin would be dazed and confused as to what to do with an 8-pack of crayolas and coloring book.
Sounds to me like Nagin is trying to shed the "School Bus" nickname and switch over to Ray "Ex-Lax" Nagin. That'll look better in campaign ads.
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No problem! (I'm not the thread police. Just thought folks would like to see the earlier responses.)
I find that instead of trying to search on a complete title, it's better to try on just a major word in the title, like "Nagin". You have no control on how local papers rewrite headlines, so the same article could turn up with dozens of different titles.
It has happened to me, too, and is sometimes unavoidable.Now I usually click on Katrina [for example] to do a quick check of the recently posted threads to the relevant topic.
This particular article was so revolting that a second posting will insure that more people will see just what a POS Nagin really is.
Here is a guy who cant keep his school buses from flooding and he wants to offer advice to the Feds.
He should just shut up.
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