<p>newmassdad,
Typical liberal response on your part. I tell the truth and you make personal attacks of me. The only thing liberals are good at is complaining. You think the federal government is responsible for everything that goes bad in your life. You have not had an original intelligent idea in you life. That’s why you lost the last two presidential elections, lost control of the Senate and lost control of the House. Keep making your personal attacks while the adults fix problems and improve America. That’s why I am laughting at you and your concerned peanut gallary while my side remains on top.</p>
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Not if local officials (you know, the one’s with guns, etc) had forced the people out of the city to avoid having them die in the streets.</p>
<p>Getting past the rhetoric. It’s a system problem with legal overlays.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/08/AR2005090801862_pf.html[/url]”>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/08/AR2005090801862_pf.html</a></p>
<p>What I am wondering about, is why the confusion of legal issues on all levels</p>
<p>After 4 years, realignment of agencies- ie FEMA under DHS, are legal discussion being had DURING the emergency, Shouldn’t all of that have bee figured out before.</p>
<p>Didn’t Brown go to law school?</p>
<p>Shouldn’t how to deal with bodies been figured out before- ie a national standard for all states with regards to autopsies, burial</p>
<p>And a better system for getting aid, the FEMA site is confusing and complicated and obtuse</p>
<p>And a more cohesive communication between agencies- </p>
<p>Does FEMA-DHS have a “war room” that is manned when a disastor is predicted? With thousands of employees, do they go to a central location to man phones, get data into computers, so that local agencies can put info in to a central location, especially when the local agencies equipment itself is inaccessible, damaged?</p>
<p>What exactly does FEMA/DHS have in terms of immediate organization
capabilites with regards to communications</p>
<p>How many people were on the ground in the gulf area, ready to roll? How many were called back to DC as the storms hit Florida and Mississpi?</p>
<p>This is rhetoric, this is practicality.</p>
<p>Apparently you never have worked in government or even a large organization… It is very difficult for one unified organization to repond to an emergency let alone many various groups and levels of government. Communications as we know them were basically wiped out.</p>
<p>BTW the Mayor’s estimate of many 1000’s dead was not even close.</p>
<p><a href=“http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050909/ap_on_re_us/hurricane_katrina[/url]”>http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050909/ap_on_re_us/hurricane_katrina</a></p>
<p>Well, Brown has been “recalled” to Washington. </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/050909/w090952.html[/url]”>http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/050909/w090952.html</a></p>
<p>“BTW the Mayor’s estimate of many 1000’s dead was not even close.”</p>
<p>And I for one am very happy, if the estimate turns out to be high.</p>
<p>His histrionics did nothing to help the situation is what I am saying–in case you missed my point.</p>
<p>So, many people didn’t die…and that is a bad thing?</p>
<p>Hystreonics…wow</p>
<p>I prefer hystreonics to “Good Job, Brownie” or “trying times” or wow its gotta be twice as bad down there"</p>
<p>A little over planning, a little wow, George, this is gonna be bad</p>
<p>I am sorry, as we know them? They have equipment that works in a war zone, they have satalite phones. How do the news media get out the stories</p>
<p>This should be #1 priority for FEMA/DHS- after 9-11, where communication problems were noted</p>
<p>And now a senator is blaming the National Weather Service…thinking that his this friends at accuweather will do better</p>
<p>Now that’s a stretch</p>
<p>FEMA’s Blocking
Of Relief Efforts -
An Amazing List
9-8-5</p>
<p>FEMA won’t accept Amtrak’s help in evacuations
<a href=“http://news.ft.com/cms/s/84aa35cc-1da8-11da-b40b-00000e[/url]”>http://news.ft.com/cms/s/84aa35cc-1da8-11da-b40b-00000e</a>… </p>
<p>FEMA turns away experienced firefighters
<a href=“http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/9/5/105538/7048[/url]”>http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/9/5/105538/7048</a> </p>
<p>FEMA turns back Wal-Mart supply trucks
<a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/05/national/nationalspec[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/05/national/nationalspec</a>… </p>
<p>FEMA prevents Coast Guard from delivering diesel fuel
<a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/05/national/nationalspec[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/05/national/nationalspec</a>… </p>
<p>FEMA won’t let Red Cross deliver food
<a href=“http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05246/565143.stm[/url]”>http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05246/565143.stm</a> </p>
<p>FEMA bars morticians from entering New Orleans
<a href=“http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=15147862&BRD=[/url]”>http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=15147862&BRD=</a>… </p>
<p>FEMA blocks 500-boat citizen flotilla from delivering aid
<a href=“http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/9/3/171718/0826[/url]”>http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/9/3/171718/0826</a> </p>
<p>FEMA fails to utilize Navy ship with 600-bed hospital on board
<a href=“http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0509[/url]”>Chicago News - Chicago Tribune - Chicago Tribune… </p>
<p>FEMA to Chicago: Send just one truck
<a href=“http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-050902dale[/url]”>Chicago News - Chicago Tribune - Chicago Tribune… </p>
<p>FEMA turns away generators
<a href=“http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/WWLBLOG.ac3fcea.html[/url]”>http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/WWLBLOG.ac3fcea.html</a> </p>
<p>FEMA: “First Responders Urged Not To Respond”
<a href=“http://www.fema.gov/news/newsrelease.fema?id=18470[/url]”>http://www.fema.gov/news/newsrelease.fema?id=18470</a> </p>
<p>That last one is real – not satire but straight from FEMA’s website.</p>