Even better, though, was Koppel's interaction with the reportette who was detailing the many private acts of charity in the area. He looked stunned and actually asked her if she had any idea why people were being so generous. That question alone just shows how out of touch the Beltway and NYC people are concerning the people who really make the country work. In their minds, it is only the Government that will be able to provide the answers. Yes, the Federal government will be greatly involved in repairing roads, helping restore the port of New Orleans and providing quick supply relief. But it is the people in the immediate area and the nameless public across the country who will provide the long term solutions these people will need to establish themselves again in the long term.
Also, a thought occurred to me regarding this charge that the damage is due to the cutting of FEMA and Army Corps of Engineer money that could have reinforced the levees. Perhaps there is some truth to that. The warning for this disaster have been coming with increasing urgency for 40 years. But.....even if the money had been in place, does anyone think they could have even started construction on reinforcing the levees by this point? Of course not - they'd still be in court fighting the Sierra Club and the environmental leftists wailing about the potential threat to the Gulf or some species no one has ever heard about or would miss if it was gone. We'd have impact study after impact study followed by lawsuit after lawsuit followed by bewilderment at dead bodies caught up in trees after the hurricane that didn't wait for the resolution of the legal battle!
The failure was guaranteed decades ago, when Democrats in Baton Rouge and in New Orleans (all Democrats) decided to build the system for a Category 3 storm. What is happening now, was guaranteed from the moment that Katrina came ashore, when the Mayor of New Orleans had failed to urge all citizens to get in their cars or on the buses and trolleys that were still running, and GET OUT OF TOWN.
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