Re: The NO post in SF...
--- In nigglybits@..., Paul Sauberer <paul.sauberer <at> g...>
wrote:
> On 9/2/05, windopaene <windopaene <at> y...> wrote:
> >
> > How can this be happening? I think was the statement I saw in there.
> >
> > Easy
> >
> > #1. Gut FEMA, (it's an entitlement program and should be privatized)
> > #2. Put your buddy, (and former campaign manager), with NO emergency
> > preparedness experience in there, and then when he leaves after a few
> > months, he can put his buddy in as the head of it, (who also has no
> > experience)
>
> IOW, "It's all George Bush's fault."
> Of course, if a Democrat had been in charge, everything would have
been
> taken care of by Monday afternoon and no one would have died.
> Personally, I think that a lot of the critics have some sort of
notion that
> New Orleans should have had their problems solved within a couple of
hours,
> that this was something like a TV movie. Real life doesn't work that
way.
> This was an unprecedented disaster. Even the best plans were untried
and
> bound to have shortcomings. The responsibilities for preparation and
relief
> are not entirely federal, either.
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