With all the oddball things FEMA and the United States have done about the disaster in New Orleans over the last week, perhaps there is a simpler explanation than the desire to eliminate a blue city in a red state.
Perhaps some of the private contractors associated with FEMA and Bu$hCo have noticed there are tens of millions of dollars laying around the drowned city.
Perhaps they regard this cash as perks of their business, and are willing to do anything to get it, and want no witnesses.
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I have an education, thank you.
This is even more ridiculous than your previous post.
Disasters, like war, are good for those in the business. The worse the better.
Just like that nine billion dollars worth of the Iraq war chest that nobody can account for, right Anonymous?
Funny thing is, if it was Bill Clinton, you'd have no problem believing he'd ordered the black helicopters in.
But you can not bring yourself to believe fine upstanding private contractors like Halliburton or DynCorp would think about making a steal.
You're a great compass, Anon. When you find something ridiculous it is very likely right on target. Hang around, we need the laughs.
Thanks for the comments, too, spartacus!
I'd say the no-bid contracts alone should keep numerous Bush rangers and pioneers in high cotton for a good long time.
What does Bill Clinton have to do with anything?
I think Bush is an inbred idiot, I don't however think he's willing to kill a few hundred thousand people for either political and/or monetary gain.
Speaking of idiots, the politicians in charge of New Orleans are black and democratic. It was their lack of planning, along with the feds lack of timely response that caused this mess.
Why does everything have to be along party lines? Why is everything the fault of the Republicans in the eyes of hard core Democrats, and the other way around in the eyes of hard core Republicans?
And by the way, I sent money to the Red Cross for disaster relief. Did you do anything other than place blame where it clearly doesn't belong?
I'm pleased I make you laugh.
Lack of planning? Are you kidding? It's the Army Corps of Engineers that build the floodwalls, not the city of New Orleans.
The Corps wanted to reinforce them.
Bush stopped that.
No, Bush didn't plan the hurricane. He just didn't give a damn about it, or the loss of life, or the loss of property not controlled by his Party, that's all. He is waiting in the wings to make a significant billion or two off the disaster for his friends.
As I told you in another post, opportunism is a strategy most predators use.
Don't make the mistake of believing Bush an idiot.
He's a crook from an inbred line of aristocrats but smart enough to be a very convincing figurehead.
The evacuation plan called for all public transportation and even school busses to be used to get people out of the city that had no other way out. It is the mayor's job to get that done... not the federal government. When Mayor Nagin issued a "mandatory evacuation" I guess he thought that leaving 150 school busses in the flood plain was the best use of resources and that "mandatory" means leave if you feel like it... we'll blame the Bush Administration of anything goes wrong.
This is my first response to any of this... but I will sign my name so you don't have to call me "Anon" should you choose to reply.
I'm not a huge Bush fan... but this is about 15% federal government fault and 85% local and state government fault.
Why were people not forced out of town during the first "mandatory" evacuation? Why did the governor not declare marshall law immediately? Why, also, did she not ask for federal assistance until Wednesday? FEMA has no juridiction, neither does the federal government, until the governor relinquishes control of the National Guard.
Blanco refused to do that.
Peace,
Doug
No peace from me.
That is emphatically not what happened, as covered here.
MCCRUMMEN: Well, right now, people are in shelters. And we prefer hard structures like that that we can—that are easier to maintain than a tent city.
MATTHEWS: Right.
MCCRUMMEN: But I think the federal government and the Red Cross are working through some of those issues right now to ensure that people have safe places to stay.
MATTHEWS: Look at these people right now. We're just seeing this footage. It's depressing. Look at the age of some of these folk here. They're fragile to begin with.
What would—what would you like to be able to do in the next week, with the help that the money people give, to change that situation to a more hopeful situation?
MCCRUMMEN: We have got to ensure that those people that are vulnerable right now have safe places to stay, food to eat and life-sustaining things that the whole coordinated effort is trying to bring to them. That's what's most important right now.
MATTHEWS: Do you have helicopters?
MCCRUMMEN: Red Cross does not. But we rely on our partners to bring those to us when we need to get supplied in and out.
MATTHEWS: What's going on right now? If you want to give me—give me a visual picture right now of what the Red Cross is doing, now that you've got this $72 million pledged.
MCCRUMMEN: Right now—before the storms hit, we had things prepositioned all throughout this area, because we knew it was going to be bad. So, right now, we're moving that stuff and volunteer—disaster-trained volunteers into those affected areas to make sure that those people get what they need.
(CROSSTALK)
MATTHEWS: Tell me what you had ready to go.
MCCRUMMEN: We had millions of heater meals and cleanup kits and hygiene kits and the kinds of things that people are going to need just to survive for the next two, three days, until federal assistance can get there and until people can get through the bad infrastructure and get the things they need.
FEMA and Homeland Security won't let them in. They won't let reporters in. That asshole Michael Brown blames the victims, most of whom were stranded. They are following federal, not state orders.
The City and State assumed authority, and evacuated as much as practicible on very short notice.
So, where is the first point of failure? How can you look at pictures of school busses sitting in water up to the roof and suggest that the mayor and governor did their jobs?
Like it or not, until the governor relinquishes control to the feds, they have no power. That's the way it is and Blanco didn't do that.
FEMA is absolutely unprepared for this type of catastrophe, but it is compounded by the mess made by the people who were supposed to prepare the city in the first place - Nagin and Blanco - and their obvious lack of leadership to get the job done... or even started in most cases.
The truth is that racism charges are being hurled at the Bush administration because the mayor of New Orleans didn't follow the evacuation plan for the city... and why is that? He was either unprepared, uneduated, or unconcerned. Any of the three reasons are unacceptable.
Peace,
Doug
No peace for you from me.
Giving lies like that the benefit of the doubt has cost thousands of American lives, since November 2000.
The simple truth is, the City did everything it could do.
Bush mandated control and co-ordination of the situation to FEMA 48 hours before it happened. That's on the record at the White House.
Read it and weep, sir. Take your disingenuous claim to not support Bush elsewhere. The number of people willing to believe republican lies is shrinking every minute.
So, the authorization from the President was done prior to the storm. When did Blanco say "Come on, boys, the National Guard troops of Louisiana are all yours"?
You look different than you did when you were a kid, by the way.
Peace,
Doug
So do you, I imagine. Is this Woody's brother I'm speaking to? Forty plus years does that. Still, I am what I am, changes and all.
I wish you well, but I do not yield this point.
You need to realize Bush heads an administration full of criminals.
Brown is history, now. Frankly, I can't wait for the rest of them to get canned, too. Because when the Imperial President says he takes charge, one supposes he means "take charge", since you do anything different and you get in big trouble.
In case you didn't notice, the Pentagon has control of much of the movement and action of the National Guard. States' control- like Louisiana- can be pretty titular when the D.o'D. controls all the troop movement. In case you didn't notice, states' rights is a dead issue in America when it crosses the will of the Republicans.
Something like 30% of the Lousiana Guard and over 60% of their equipment is now in Iraq.
Blanco did what he was legally required and able to do for the evacuation.
Like the terrorist disaster of 9-11, what happened on 8-29 was largely due to the arrogance of the administration to assume total control, and the unwillingness of the administration to be bothered to do anything about the situation other than make noise.
If Katrina had hit Miami as a category 5 hurricane it would be an entirely different story. That's a fact.
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