Simmer down there Mark…I didn\’t say the Louisiana government didn\’t drop the ball…but, 35% of the Louisiana national guard was deployed at the time. That is a significant percentage.
Obviously, there were evacuation issues and what seems to be a general unpreparedness on the part of local and state government. But you\’re acting like no fault lies with the Federal government at all. And that\’s just not the case, even if you don\’t believe the recent remarks made by former director Brown.
Yes, the Fed Gov\’t could have been better organized but the state of La is notorious for rejecting input, help or meddling from the Feds. Let\’s face it, had a similar disaster occured in any major US city, to that portion of the city that is almost entirely dependent on gov\’t assistance (every city has it\’s area), the outcome would have been the same: people expecting handouts, thugs preying on the weak, and everthing being someone else\’s fault.
Mark- I do feel like the feds dropped the ball. I should have made that clearer, earlier. I personally don\’t believe there\’s much debate over that. They were unprepared, inexperienced, and woefully incompetent. I\’m not supporting their inadequacies- please don\’t feel that I am. They failed, pure and simple.
My problem is that on many websites, and in many \”news\” articles, the loudest voices slam the feds and never whisper a word about local failures.
I chose this article to say something because this article absolutely demolishes one of the biggest criticisms of the feds- \”too little, too late\”- and demonstrates local culpability and corruption all too clearly.
My basic point is that the people who love to bash the feds are nowhere to be found on this thread, and that bothers me.
Once you demonstrate that the feds WERE on-scene almost immediately and that they DID try to help residents, but that residents took gratuitous advantage, the narrow-minded haters just shrug.
The best respnse yet has been \”Bush stole our troops!\”, but you\’ve even admitted that\’s not entirely true. The \”haters\” won\’t even address the fact that New Orleans residents have clearly been victimized by their fellow citizens and elected officials. Everybody loves to bash State Farm, but no one will admit that maybe they have a valid reason for denying claims. Here we have proof of fraud, but apparently no one believes that fraudulent claims have been made.
I\’m just frustrated by the culture and mentality that spends so much effort on bashing one group without spending an ounce of time on the opposing side.
It\’s the same mentality that desires freedom of religion for moslems, and desires death by torture for secular humanists.
It\’s a total denial of reality in support of your particular world view.
That\’s your problem…you read – and obviously believe – the newspaper and all the liberal spin that goes along with 99% of our mainstream media outlets.
I bet the Walmarts, grocery stores, Radio Shacks, department stores would like to get back the money that they lost to the looters too. I watched in horror as these people broke windows and were carrying as much as they could, blue jeans, tv\’s, radios, dvd players out of these stores and the police standing by doing nothing. These are the same people that defrauded the system. Like they could use this stuff with water up to their waists and no place to plug it into.
They also chose not to evacuate the area. I blame the state government and not the feds. I agree with the one who posted that if they were found guilty of defrauding the government that they should not ever be allowed any government assistance in the future.
What Board of Directors isn\’t conservative (or \”Republican\” as you put it). The FACT is, the media is liberal. You didn\’t say anything to refute the fact that the media is leftist when it comes to reporting. I see and read it everyday in the newspaper and on TV. And that is FACT.
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Simmer down there Mark…I didn\’t say the Louisiana government didn\’t drop the ball…but, 35% of the Louisiana national guard was deployed at the time. That is a significant percentage.
Obviously, there were evacuation issues and what seems to be a general unpreparedness on the part of local and state government. But you\’re acting like no fault lies with the Federal government at all. And that\’s just not the case, even if you don\’t believe the recent remarks made by former director Brown.
Yes, the Fed Gov\’t could have been better organized but the state of La is notorious for rejecting input, help or meddling from the Feds. Let\’s face it, had a similar disaster occured in any major US city, to that portion of the city that is almost entirely dependent on gov\’t assistance (every city has it\’s area), the outcome would have been the same: people expecting handouts, thugs preying on the weak, and everthing being someone else\’s fault.
Mark- I do feel like the feds dropped the ball. I should have made that clearer, earlier. I personally don\’t believe there\’s much debate over that. They were unprepared, inexperienced, and woefully incompetent. I\’m not supporting their inadequacies- please don\’t feel that I am. They failed, pure and simple.
My problem is that on many websites, and in many \”news\” articles, the loudest voices slam the feds and never whisper a word about local failures.
I chose this article to say something because this article absolutely demolishes one of the biggest criticisms of the feds- \”too little, too late\”- and demonstrates local culpability and corruption all too clearly.
My basic point is that the people who love to bash the feds are nowhere to be found on this thread, and that bothers me.
Once you demonstrate that the feds WERE on-scene almost immediately and that they DID try to help residents, but that residents took gratuitous advantage, the narrow-minded haters just shrug.
The best respnse yet has been \”Bush stole our troops!\”, but you\’ve even admitted that\’s not entirely true. The \”haters\” won\’t even address the fact that New Orleans residents have clearly been victimized by their fellow citizens and elected officials. Everybody loves to bash State Farm, but no one will admit that maybe they have a valid reason for denying claims. Here we have proof of fraud, but apparently no one believes that fraudulent claims have been made.
I\’m just frustrated by the culture and mentality that spends so much effort on bashing one group without spending an ounce of time on the opposing side.
It\’s the same mentality that desires freedom of religion for moslems, and desires death by torture for secular humanists.
It\’s a total denial of reality in support of your particular world view.
That\’s your problem…you read – and obviously believe – the newspaper and all the liberal spin that goes along with 99% of our mainstream media outlets.
I dont know anything about politics accept for the fact that the media is controlled by about 4 large megacorporations that all lean Republican. FACT
I bet the Walmarts, grocery stores, Radio Shacks, department stores would like to get back the money that they lost to the looters too. I watched in horror as these people broke windows and were carrying as much as they could, blue jeans, tv\’s, radios, dvd players out of these stores and the police standing by doing nothing. These are the same people that defrauded the system. Like they could use this stuff with water up to their waists and no place to plug it into.
They also chose not to evacuate the area. I blame the state government and not the feds. I agree with the one who posted that if they were found guilty of defrauding the government that they should not ever be allowed any government assistance in the future.
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What Board of Directors isn\’t conservative (or \”Republican\” as you put it). The FACT is, the media is liberal. You didn\’t say anything to refute the fact that the media is leftist when it comes to reporting. I see and read it everyday in the newspaper and on TV. And that is FACT.