They were warned??? So was our federal government!!!

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

Saturday as I read the threads I read where a church had received federal funds (faith based) and they called their congregation and made sure people had rides. I remembered thinking to myself "no wonder these people consider themselves saved>"

But wait??!! What about the rest of their neighbors? Did they worry about them?

Our GOVERNMENT knew the devastation from Camille. Our GOVERNMENT knows better than anyone on this board the wealth statistics of any given region...hell Karl Rove can point out all the Republican households on an aerial map!!

Why were busses not made available to the people who had no cars? Why was shelter far NORTH of the city not made available?
WHy was there a traffic jam on Saturday? There are fewer people in NEw Orleans than there are on Los Angeles freeways every day of the year and plenty of roads out of the area?

So when you say, the poor people of New Orleans were warned...so was our federal government...but they were busy staging a show full of paid operatives in Carwford the weekend before this parade of horribles!

[blm]

1. BushInc was also warned Jan 30, 2001 that a major terror attack was coming

soon.

It was in the Hart-Rudman Report on Global Terror that Bush rejected even without reading it first. He trashcanned a 2 1/2 year study of the global terror threat, its root causes, and URGENT proposals for homeland security.

[durablend]

3. See the connection?

A hurricane at least people have some (albeit maybe small) warning that SOMETHING is coming. If the government isn't prepared for that, how in the hell are they going to protect against a terrorist attack that they may have NO advance warning of?

[dogday]

6. Bingo, we have a winner folks

:bounce:

[lildreamer316]

12. Correction: we have a

talking point.
SORRY to be using this horrible tradgedy like that; but I'm just saying. It's the truth.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

8. That's a damn good point

[durablend]

10. And THAT'S the point that needs to be drilled through

The American sheeple and those on "our side" that are hiding under the table in fear of being yelled at by *.

When you come down to it, this is NO different than a terrorist attack (aside from the fact that there's nobody to "go invade" to get retribution)

[Nothing Without Hope]

16. EXCACTLY! You win the prize. It's so blatant, *'s utter lack of concern

about the hurricane areas and indeed his marked cheerfulness as he ate cake, posed with John McCain, and posed with his guitar, I am even beginning to wonder if it was DELIBERATE. The lack of preparation, the lack of relief efforts, the huge slash in funding for projects to protect from exactly this kind of damage...

Where were the sandbagging teams at the levees? The helicopter that was supposed to be dropping those 3500 lb sandbags was "diverted" and the mayor was not able to reach the president, who obviously had other priorities.

There were no witnesses of the breaching of the 17th st Canal levee. Not only had it not been sandbagged, I have to wonder in retrospect - was its breaching a natural event?

Is this LIHOP? The lack of prepration, relief, critical sandbagging, everything. Maybe even the levee breach - did anyone see it happeining? Why were the first reports of it already talking about such a huge, irreparable gap? The events are so extreme, and * is so cheery and unconcerned, I have to wonder. Already the oil prices have risen. What else might he gain? Horrible to even suspect another human being of being capable of such evil, but we already know that he is.

[dogday]

2. There should of been, it was a mandatory evac

There were sick and elderly and poor who were left behind and could of been helped had troops deployed and gone house to house. Who thinks the poor has the money or opportunity to pick up and go and pay for meals and place to stay or even vehicle.

[beyurslf]

4. They didn't have time to bring the National Guard home from Iraq

to help out.

[wtbymark]

5. It's part of the administration's policy of social Darwinism

no car? no cash? too bad for you, drown.

[Imagevision]

7. Moore's F9-11 should be re-released again!

http://downingstreetmemo.com/

[Historic NY]

17. It was on tonight on Showtime here in Ny.

I actually watched it for the first time complete.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

9. kick

[Pobeka]

11. They (Rove et. al.) worked the numbers up.

More dems would die than repubs.

It may sound nuts but they're killing people in Iraq right now so they can stay in power and bring in the profits for Haliburton.

You think they wouldn't calculate that they'd come out ahead and get more LA seats/votes if NO suffers a lot of human casualties?

[Old Mouse]

13. Don't make this a class issue

This monster formed directly off of the US coast. It didn't have to travel thousands of miles to gather strength before making Continental landfall. After a year of false alarms authorities suddenly had hours instead of weeks to make life or death decisions far beyond our experience to judge.

The Governor of Louisiana and the Mayor of New Orleans did the best anyone could to evacuate such a densely populated area with so short a notice. It's unrealistic not to recognize the hard work the State and City government did and are doing to preserve life.

Your anger would be better directed at the administration that stopped discussion of catastrophic climate change,.. or the complete absence of the Commander-In-Chief at a time of national disaster.

[SharonRB]

15. I agree this was a federal issue

It might also have been a class issue, but not on the local level -- on the national level.

[SharonRB]

14. I thought the same thing

They should have brought in busses or planes when they had the chance, before the storm hit, to get the people out who had no other way out.

[NVMojo]

18. There is no Homeland Security. It's just a funding program for

the places that kiss Bush's ass.