“The people who should be in jail over Katrina all hold or held government positions”
“How silly. For one, there were looters.”
Are you kidding me?
All the money earmarked to upgrade the levies that was siphoned off to fund other things over the years.
The failure of local and state governments to make the evacuation order when they should have.
The abject failure of the local and state governments to follow and execute their own emergency evacuation plans.
The failure of the state and local governments to ASK for federal help, when it was obvious that they could not handle the situation.
The failures of execution by the Federal government when they were finally engaged.
Yep, people were dying in the brackish water of NO, but the person swiping a few dozen beer bottles and wading through the sewage were the problem.
Unbelievable.. there would have been none of what you saw go down in NO had the people in the responsible government positions at the time DONE THE JOBS THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO DO.
This doctor would not have been placed in the position he was in had the powers that be actually done their jobs effectively.
Obviously this was a huge natural disaster, and nothing could have prevented everything, but the overwhelming culpability for what happened in NO falls squarely on the folks who were in government positions, and more than a few still are, failing completely and utterly to do their jobs.
The storm didn’t take out NO, it was the failure to deal with it afterwards that created the mess. Had things been mobilized properly before the storm hit, and had things mobilized properly after it was gone, most of what you saw in NO would have never occurred.
Trying to morally equate the guy with a few beer bottles in brine water, the utter failure of politicians and bureaucrats to do their duties and then play blame game to cover their own butts is pathetic.
“Yep, people were dying in the brackish water of NO, but the person swiping a few dozen beer bottles and wading through the sewage were the problem.”
I didn’t say they were the main problem, Thick, I said that more than government people belonged in jail contrary to your narrow view.