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September 10, 2005
Whose failure?
Who says there's plenty of blame to pass around? What a crock of BS.
The states are not responsible for coordinating this sort of effort because hurricanes almost alwasy affect multiple states. The city and state's responsibility is to request assistance from the Federal Agency. The city and state both met that portion of their responsibility responsibility. If you heard the governor of Louisiana didn't declare an emergency, she did on the Friday before the hurricane. It's documented. However, word got out among conservative pundits and columnists that she didn't and people have kept repeating it as the gospel truth, even though it was false. This kind of thing happens.
The state did all that it could. The city of New Orleans as well as the Governor of Louisiana begged the federal government for money to repair the levees and were turned down. Homeland Security said it was "pork barrel" spending. New Orleans couldn't possibly have done more than it did.
The blame goes entirely to the Federal government because the Federal Agency is responsible for coordinating efforts.
Michael Brown was never qualified (he was last employed as an Arabian horse show judge[?], a job from which he was fired). Neither was his predecessor Bush appointee, who is now a lobbyist for Halliburton (Dick Cheney's company). The current administration has regularly handed out positions to unqualified individuals as return on favors.
My question is how come we're just now finding out about these things? Well, today's media is either gutless or a part of the machine. The only way you get to find facts is by listening to left-wing radio or talk, which has its own share of slant, by searching on the internet, or listening to BBC or other foreign sources. You won't hear it on the evening news. (A white couple in deep water with groceries found groceries, a young black man in the same water with groceries looted his.)
I know it's hard to believe that the top level administration is fraught with corruption, graft and cronyism, because--well--we're talking about the PRESIDENT and his CABINET, right? Unimaginable. Mark my words. The wall is already beginning to come apart. Republican congressional members are quickly distancing themselves from the administration. To win reelection next year? Who knows, but it's evident that this is just the tip of the iceberg.
Michael Brown is really the first to go. Let's hope that he's not the last.
Posted by Bastique at September 10, 2005 02:31 PM