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Posted on 08/31/2005 4:00:15 PM PDT by NautiNurse
LOL!
Thanks... I really needed that laugh. :)
Medical patients are being sent to hospitals in Alabama (Birmingham and Huntsville) and here to Georgia (particularly several hospitals here in the Atlanta area). The Red Cross and FEMA are both staging some of their operations here.
Make it a community project for each city...the churches and other organizations in each city can take care of one family each and get them on their feet.
You are stuck in the '90's. For most of the American public, the days of idealistic utopianism are either over or ending as this disaster unfolds. The message being seen and heard by the public this morning is that there are enormous numbers of persons needing to be saved, but rescue efforts are being held up by lawless thugs and gangs. Any excuse-making we might have seen for the latter from the public has evaporated, they want rescues. Thus most want shoot to kill now, to get the rescues started again. No tears for 1000 thugs when 100,000 need to get out.
I am not second guessing, nor am I faulting the Bush Administration. My only comment is that the feds have apparently been one step behind any understanding of the level of incompetence of the state and local govt in Louisiana.
They are outstanding - always. In the Northridge quake they were the ones who gave my daughter and me water and blankets and a teddy bear when we couldn't go home yet.
Lots of precious evacuation time being lost today, due to the thugs of NOLA.
I knew it was a mistake for the LA governess to make the false dichotomy between "rescuing people" and "stopping looters." As someone from any developing nation will tell you, shooting or in some way detering the looters IS a vital and necessary part of "rescuing people." If you don't stop them forcibly the looters will begin to kill and you wind up exactly where NO is right now. Anarchy.
True, but New Orleans is not necessarily representative of most American cities, maybe of some large metropolitan areas, but not most cities.
I posted earlier, that I found a website that said NO was the 3rd most stressful city in America to live in because of violent crime...and this was before the hurricane.
Apparently the levees are the responsibility of the Army Corps of Engineers, and they are already whining that their budget has been cut so much by Bush that they did not perform any maintenance on the levees in the last year. The Corps is the most self-aggrandizing and wasteful agency in the entire government. By the time this is over, the Corps is going to be saying they have been operating with quill pens, abacuses, and candles for the last five years.
Most of the criminals and predators will stay behind. You can't get on a bus with guns and loot. I would like to add that these predators PLANNED to stay in the CITY and LOOT IT THE ENTIRE TIME. This isn't SPONTANEOUS looting. They should be shot on sight.
unfortunately, the governor doesn't share that view.
Years ago my husband told me to prepare for marauding bands of thugs if ever there were a major disaster. We are on a farm and he said we'd be a prime target. So, we are very prepared! Our Farm is like a fortress, yet looks like a pleasant, sleepy little farmstead from the outside, lol!
Thank Goodness, after seeing this mess.
10:49 AM CDT on Thursday, September 1, 2005
10:48 A.M. - Davis: Schools will not open until at least October 1.
10:47 A.M. - Davis: Looting still prevelant.
10:46 A.M. - Davis: A couple thousand people still in shelters. More shelters may open up as times goes on.
10:45 A.M. - Davis: Water, food and ice available at the Target parking lot on Highway 21 in Covington, and the old Wal-Mart on Gause Blvd. in Slidell.
10:41 A.M. - Kevin Davis, St. Tammany Parish President: Cleco has 1,400 crew members working to establish power in some areas of the parish. Davis said he needs between 15,000 and 40,000 temporary housing units.
GMTA, but you were first.... ;-)
I was thinking the same...and I don't like feeling like this. So much despair...
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Could your rant not also apply to every other government funded employee? Why are you not concerned about the lack of response by all the other government agencies. Combined, all other government employees outnumber the DOD by 10 to 1.
If you think Tyndall AFB or Eglin AFB have the type of resources that are required in this emergency, then you simply don't know what you are ranting about.
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