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Some more helpful leadership comments /sarcasm off


FROM WWL
Updates as they come in on Katrina
06:21 AM CDT on Friday, September 2, 2005

Tom Planchet

6:20 A.M. - Terry Ebbert, the head of emergency operations for New Orleans. "This is a national disgrace. FEMA has been here three days, yet there is no command and control. We can send massive amounts of aid to tsunami victims, but we can't bail out the city of New Orleans."

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At this point officials who whine, complain, or blame are exactly like looters and thugs. Why? Because their public remarks ruin the positive efforts to help by creating animosities, impairments to decision making and misallocation of resources. They also poison the public upwhelming of support by confusing the real issues that need to be dealt with NOW -- scouting, organization, relief, provision for the evacuees.