They always eat their own.
I dont know if this is the same hotel but...I was told the other day that one of the hotels had arranged a fleet of buses to come into to New Orleans to rescue the people stuck in their hotel. Each resident paid $45 as part of the cost to bring the buses in. When the buses arrived, they were commandered by the Mayor to pick up people at the Superdome. If he allowed some later buses to pick up visitors at the hotel, he may have been paying them back for taking their privately funded buses.
Not so fast... My understanding is that the W Hotel PAID for the buses to evacuate their guests. It is entirely fair for the Mayor to commandeer the buses with the understanding that the hotel guests would be evacuated ALONG WITH others to fill up the remaining capacity of the buses bought and paid for by the W Hotel. Those buses would not be there if the W Hotel had not provided them. It's a win-win.
My travel agent in America has cancelled my trip to New Orleans, as it won't be cleaned up any time soon. In a way, I'm relieved - I love the city, however, its government does not deserve any patronage.
Regards, Ivan
How much do think he charged them per head?
the way i see it, is the libs have no option but to present a negative picture. watching FOX and then turning randomly to CNN and MSNBC and both have "Bush's Failure" as top news. FOX on the other hand, is blaring how great the military are, how effient they worked, how they are proud and heartwarming positive stories. Doom and gloom on the left. They can't praise the military because Bush has stretched us so thin and if they did a good job, then we had enough soldiers ot handle it. If they blame the state government, that won't be acceptable because the whole world will know how totally inept the dems are in a time of crisis - who would you feel safe running the country - 2006 elections are right around the corner. They look like fools and their credibility is nonexistent! The only thing I don't get is how fast they get their talking points across the MSM and all other lefties. Could be another hand at work here? But they are going to look so stupid because the fact that the only way to prevent the suffering would have been to get them out before storm. Bush had no auth to do that.