Truth? MSM & race hustlers, you can't handle the truth about Katrina.
Posted on 08/27/2010 4:51:13 AM PDT by Kaslin
How come there are no rallies or speeches in any of the other affected states? I haven’t heard anything about Mississippi, Alabama or Texas. They suffered too. Is the difference because they picked themselves up by their bootstraps and did most of the heavy lifting on their own?
/dripping with sarc/
I live in post-racial America — I really, really, really don’t care anymore.
Katrina remembrance gatherings are just yet another vent for the left to bash Bush yet the same bashers are awfully silent about the incompetence of Mayor Nagin and especially the about President Obama’s summer of 2010 handling of the gulf oil spill.
Hypocrisy is thy name.
As Rush put it yesterday, “Katrina; the disaster that keeps on giving.”
It is so amazing to watch the professional LeftStreamMedia
(previously MSM) purport “news” consisting only of reruns
from 5 years ago. 50% of the evening “news” this week
is their antiBush agenda/stories —— from 5 years ago.
No wonder they are dying as an industry.
They live in the past, and when they happen to talk about the
present (ie, real news), they just lie from one of their
tightly controlled ‘talking points’.
As other posters mentioned, Katrina didn't just hit New Orleans. And most of the other people affected by the storm have moved on with their lives.
Katrina is the CliffNotes version of Black America since The Great Society and the War on Poverty were instituted.
Just wait until they become the Gatekeepers of our health care... they show us whose boss. Check out the reports on the Health care strike in S. Africa where a seven percent pay hike in a worldwide recession wasn’t enough for these marvels of humanity.
See Post#7 by SueRae
Katrina was followed by Hurricane Rita that same year, which did serious damage to east Texas.
Ike made a direct hit on Galveston Island two years ago. There are still some signs of damage, but as a whole, the island is back in business and booming.
The difference? Texas didn't wait for the federal government to come to the rescue.
The difference is that they had elected remotely competent leadership and weren't so corrupt that their emergency system didn't completely collapse in the face of a true emergency.
FEMA is not meant to be a first responder to a major crisis. It takes a lot of time to move vast numbers of people and materials into an area that has been devastated.
It is the local government that needs to be able to coordinate the efforts because they know where the local resources are and where the areas are that are most likely to have the worst problems, not some federal official who doesn't know the area.
It was made worse by the fact that Katrina cut such a wide swath that neighboring areas couldn't step up and lend a hand and people and materials had to come from farther away, but it was essentially a failure of the local emergency response that left these people without help for so long.
The federal government's worst mistake was assuming that the local and state governments were remotely complicated and would have some resources available since the risk was well known.
You don't organize and move food, medicine, and other needed items for that many people from a thousand miles a way or more over a transportation system devastated by the storm in a matter of hours. It takes days get get enough resources in the area.
This is why the area itself needs to be prepared and have such resources locally.
In a disaster as bad as this one the local responders are bound to be overwhelmed. The next step up is the state government which should be the next most familiar with the area and it's resources, and has the responsibility to make sure there are a reasonable amount of resources in the area and a plan with which to utilize them. The state governor also directs the national guard in that state to respond to emergencies. The state's efforts were an epic failure.
It was the federal government which had to step in and take over what should have been local and state operations that FEMA should have been helping to coordinate and provide resources for. Instead the federal government had to organize things almost at every level.
So the federal government stepped up and did a pretty good job of responding in a horrible situation where the local infrastructure and resources turned out to be if not useless, nearly so. What was done well at the local level was done by some extremely dedicated and overwhelmed individuals who should be incredibly proud of what the accomplished with what they had to work with.
However as a whole, New Orleans' and Louisiana's response was far worse than it should have been even considering the disaster they faced. It is not surprising that they couldn't handle a disaster of this size on their own, but it is appalling how little they were able to do on their own.
Houston took in the biggest share of the ‘refugees’- reported to be over 100,000, and got shot up and vandalized as payment for their efforts.
In other news a “Salon” liberal wrote up about his muggings, but of course never mentioning the race of the perps, other than that the liberal was not happy about NOLA returning to its pre-Katrina glory.
Why does the media focus on New Orleans,the eye of the storm hit Mississippi.
Who was the MSM reporter who started talking about McCarthy during one of his New Orleans Katrina reports? I thought it was really bizarre.
And although you'd never know it by watching media coverage on each Katrina anniversary, so have the majority of the citizens of New Orleans.
While that may be true, we have a butt load of "Katrina victims" STILL living in Houston FEMA trailers - after FIVE friggin' YEARS !
How about taking 'em back ?
Those who have not returned for the most part have not done so because they can't afford to return. They don't have the money to rebuild and the rents are much higher than before the storm.
I was in a hotel room in Birmingham Alabama with my family watching the aftermath of Katrina unfold on CNN when Governor Perry announced that he was taking many refugees from the storm. I looked at my daughter, shook my head and said,"I'm afraid that's one decision he'll come to regret." That comment was mean of me but, in my defense, I was very tired and extremely worried about what I was seeing on television. Your governor was being a true Christian. I'm truly sorry that things have worked out the way they have and that the good people of Texas have suffered because of it.
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