Re: OT: followup on New Orleans - disgraceful

On Sat, 03 Sep 2005 01:50:45 +0000, Michael A. Terrell wrote:

> Jesse Jackson was running his big mouth that there was no planning.
> Where was his fleet of chartered buses? Where are his thousands of
> tractor trailer loads of food, ice, water and medicine? Oh, yeah, he
> never does anything except bitch about what others don't do.


> As far as the mayor, why didn't he make the evacuation mandatory?
> Why didn't he fill warehouses full of food and water? Why didn't he
> tell FEMA that he was using their convention center to house refugees so
> they could bring in supplies? Oh, yeah. They claim that it wouldn't
> matter because they were black and no one would listen!


Why didn't the mayor save the school busses by driving them a bit
up-river? ...full of people, of course.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/050901/480/flpc21109012015

> IOW, its another case of passing the buck and shirking
> responsibility, as usual.

Don't forget to add "for political advantage" after that.

> The electric utilities, phone companies, and all other utilities
> should just tell people that they WILL NEVER PROVIDE SERVICE to the
> flooded area. Not for any reason, ever again. There should be no
> federal money to rebuild on the current site, and insurance companies
> should not have to pay out if someone insists on staying. If someone
> insists on rebuilding there will be no businesses to provide jobs, no
> grocery or convenience stores for supplies allowed to rebuild in the now
> flooded area. The levee facing the gulf should be torn down and a new
> city built on higher and drier land where this can never happen again.

The problem I see with that is that the Port of NO is still needed.
SOmone has to do the work.

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Keith
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