underthedome
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Tue Aug-30-05 08:45 PM
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What has the Louisiana Governor done?? |
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Edited on Tue Aug-30-05 08:46 PM by underthedome
I see alot blaming Bush but I think the first stop should be with Louisiana's Governor, why wasn't this state more prepared?
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Tue Aug-30-05 08:47 PM
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1. you can't prepare for something like this |
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Tue Aug-30-05 08:58 PM
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9. You could at least had a plan and some funding |
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Of any natural disaster in the US there are none as locked-down as NOLA flooding at some point. Where the heck is FEMA and the DHC?
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Tue Aug-30-05 08:47 PM
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2. She was out there asking people to get out before the storm |
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She got what was left of her Guard and equipment called up. She leads a rather poor state. What else was she supposed to do? Budget cuts due to Fed Dollars slashed were NOT her doing.
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Tue Aug-30-05 09:13 PM
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10. Something seemed wrong with the evacuation plan |
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Plenty of people in NO dont have cars and were stranded there.
I dont know who is responsible for the evacuation plan, but other plans in other cities should be revised in this regard.
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Tue Aug-30-05 09:42 PM
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18. plenty of people purposely decided to stay. |
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Tue Aug-30-05 10:17 PM
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22. May be, but this w-end, they were also showing plenty of people that just |
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could not leave because they did not have a car. This was even quoted by AP, who typically does not care about these details and the object of plenty of threads here.
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Tue Aug-30-05 09:43 PM
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19. In any disaster, the poor will always suffer most |
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Society just gives lip service to care and is not set up for reality. The whole culture just isn't working. We are gonna see more and more proof of it.
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Horse with no Name
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Tue Aug-30-05 08:48 PM
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3. Read it and weep. Really. Fault not at the state level |
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Tue Aug-30-05 08:49 PM
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underthedome
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Tue Aug-30-05 08:56 PM
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7. Can't read it, one link works out of those posted at that thread...nm |
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Tue Aug-30-05 09:34 PM
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14. Really? If you go through the whole thread, there are lots of links. |
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Tue Aug-30-05 09:39 PM
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17. I just checked 'em; they all work but one. |
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They seem to work for EVERYONE ELSE, too. You seem to be experiencing a unique problem. Which leads one to wonder whether you cannot read them, or don't want to.
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AX10
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Tue Aug-30-05 08:49 PM
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4. Hey, Hey, Bush cut the funding for these types of Crisis. |
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Blame Bush! The government can do little good for the people because of Bush's budget cuts.
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Tue Aug-30-05 08:55 PM
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6. FYI one link works out of those posted at that thread...nm |
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Tue Aug-30-05 08:57 PM
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8. Everything that Bush should do and hasn't done |
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Tue Aug-30-05 09:16 PM
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11. Don't blame the governor. Bush not only slashed... |
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the disaster relief funding, he also cut levee-strengthening projects and -- worst of all -- privatized the whole New Orleans FEMA operation, turning it over to one of his (Halliburton-like) friends, thereby perverting emergencies into opportunities for special profiteering.
The extent to which this president has unleashed the most savagely Tryannosauric forms of capitalism is truly unspeakable, and its horror is nowhere more obvious than in what is happening in New Orleans.
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Tue Aug-30-05 09:22 PM
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12. Here's a recent DU link that contains particularly eye-opening... |
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reports on how Bush has vindictively slashed federal disaster and levee-improvement funds for New Orleans: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4517048
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Tue Aug-30-05 09:25 PM
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13. Homeland Security is in charge of disasters now a days |
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I'm sure the Governor is doing her best but without an adequate response on the Federal level there probably isn't all that much she can do.
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Tue Aug-30-05 09:35 PM
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15. It really is a national issue |
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so yeah, responsibility belongs at the federal level.
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Tue Aug-30-05 09:37 PM
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16. Because Bush took away all the money they were using to prepare |
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Edited on Tue Aug-30-05 09:37 PM by Walt Starr
That's why.
the governor of New ORleans did everything possible with the resources she had to prepare for this. There were federal funds to shore up the levees, but Bush cut those funds. There was a plan to prepare the city for this to survive a cat 5, but Bush cut that money and all they had left prepared them for a Cat 3.
Governor Blanco is a DAMN FINE GOVERNOR!
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Tue Aug-30-05 09:52 PM
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20. she did the best she could |
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the storm turned, originally it was to hit alabama/florida panhandle
it turned quite suddenly & also when it hit florida it was a cat 1 or 2, a small storm of the type we laugh off all the time in louisiana
no one can prepare for a disaster that is greater than anything that ever occurred in all of human history, we have never experienced a hurricane of this size and strength -- and it hit a strategic location
jehovah himself couldn't have done anything
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Tue Aug-30-05 10:10 PM
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21. she was at the superdome twice today |
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on wwltv.com now live stream
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Tue Aug-30-05 10:19 PM
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23. The levy system is the responsibility of the Army Corps of Engineers. |
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Not the Governor of Louisiana.
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Tue Aug-30-05 10:27 PM
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24. Last time they showed her, |
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she was wrestling an alligator that was trying to swallow a baby puppy which Kathleen had rescued from the jaws of a shark only moments before as she was swimming down bourbon street.
She has a lot on her mind right now. Can we give her some slack?
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Tue Aug-30-05 10:34 PM
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Tue Aug-30-05 10:38 PM
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26. I think the OP is more interested in cutting bush* some slack |
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Tue Aug-30-05 10:57 PM
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28. I felt sso sorry for Kathleen Blanco and Mary Landrieu the past two days |
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You would have to live down here to know a South Louisianian's love for our magic New Orleans. Kathleen is from Lafayette and Mary's family are well known New Orleans' natives. Nobody alive wishes the survival of NO more than these two women. Just sayin'.
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Wed Aug-31-05 12:13 AM
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29. I believe you completely |
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I haven't lived in NO, but I have been lucky enough to visit a few times.
My response was questioning motives of the origional poster, who seemed to want to villify Ms. Blanco, and give bush* a pass.
I'm on your side :hi:
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Tue Aug-30-05 10:42 PM
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27. The state was as prepared as MS, and AL |
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Talk about the administration cuts to emergency management funds for the states.
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