On Oct 26, 2006, at 5:05 PM, jdiebremse wrote:
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jonathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jonathan mistergibson@ wrote:
I can't agree with you. Let me count the ways... no, I don't have
that
kind of time.
I started listing the grand follies I could foresee even watching
the
2000 campaign from Amsterdam, but the actual blooded tragedy list
out-does anything I conjured - especially the Katrina fiasco.
Oh, that's because the Katrina fiasco was the fault of:
A) A Republican President
B) A Democratic Governor of Louisiana
C) A Democratic Mayor of New Orleans
D) All of the Above
Good Grief!
JDG
The answer is "D" obviously, but it's in the mix that truth cuts the
wet mud from dried blood.
The storm hit was an event. The pre-loading {and lack} of plans and
preps were seriously hampered by the policies of this administration
from abstract thinking to executive codecs.
So, do you think it is the responsibility of the federal government to
develop evacuation and disaster response plans for every city and every
State in the Union? What level of responsibility do you think that
the
individual cities and States have?
Well, yes.
I believe the parameters are in the Preamble. Storms do not know state
borders, nor do tidal waves and earthquakes - let alone newer ills like
nuclear fallout and bird flu.
This administration was supposed to FUND those plans and procedures as
developed by local authorities. The role of the Fed is to coordinate
and mesh the regional plans into a cohesive whole for many reasons. As
the people in those regional and local work groups have written, they
were told by GwB officials the money would not arrive {drum-roll
please} because the War on Terror demanded sacrifice.
As in, "Go pray for good weather and your National Guard we're taking
to Iraq".
Seems fair to ask, "Is this an example of a 'faith-based' {lack of}
initiative?"
- Jonathan -
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