Comments on: This cannot be happening

By: kent

kent — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 20:08:46 +0000

It is very easy to blame the federal government for what the state of louisiana should have fixed decades ago.If you would go back and take the time to read your constitutuion, you will see that each state is responcible for fixing its own problems.The federal government was never designed to assume responcibility for fixing state problems. This is at state and local level.

Also the former administration , eight years of the democrats , did absolutely nothing to correct new orleans ethier.

where were the busses that should have taken these people out of new orleans hint….state level

where were the statewide louisiana state national guard…hint..state level.

and….we know where all of the police dept were…..Yes, they all ran….

a total breakdown in state planning, if you want to blame someone, blame the governer of louisiana, blame sen. mary landriu, state level government is scared to death that they will have to accept the blame that is so rightfully theirs. I have seen so many documentaries through the years on what would happen to new orleans if even a small storm hit. And……shamefully, the state chose to ignore…and pocket the massive gains of its casinos.

its time for the brainless to learn the facts

By: Diane

Diane — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 22:22:06 +0000

Um.

I hate to tell you this, but exactly NO ONE who reads this screed would believe you work for the Department of Justice.

The fact that you probably don’t understand why it’s so obvious says volumes.

The same goes for the rest of your thoughtless, bigoted, vile post.

By: kent

kent — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 18:55:04 +0000

Ok
I work for the Us dept of Justice.
The state is responcible for preparing for disasters, the city is also responcible for preparation.New orleans has known for decades that their levee systems needed to be upgraded.the last major hurricane hit in the 1960’s So….lets see, they have had over 40 years to correct this problem .Gambling casinos were brought in to pay for these type things for the state.Louisiana makes billions of dollars each year on their casinos.Why is this massive ammount of money not paying for proper levee systems.The United States govt. should not be responcible for paying for this. Fema should only assist in the cleanup, not fund it.Now you have all these lazy people Still living in hotels at the governments expense, and not even trying to get ajob, because 90% of them poverty pimping welfare collecting bums who could work, but Won’t. What kind of evil state government has massive casio funds, and wont even use this resource to save its people.I think the governer of Louisiana should be locked up for knowingly killing its people in a disaster that could have been prevented with proper corrections to the problem.Everyone knows that Louisiana is a corrupt state and always has been.Just look at their former governor Edwin Edwards who is currently serving in federal prison.
and…what kind of person lives in a city just awaiting disaster for decades, and makes no preparation of what to do in case of a disaster.In florida, their low income people always manage to get out before the hurricane.Most of the comments on this site are misinformed people with below average IQ’s.
I guess this is typical of a loisiana resident though.My own state of texas was good enough to take these people in, now we cant get rid of them.Most of them are cause
ing problems everywhere they go.We want them to leave, but…they do not want to leave, because they can collect more welfare money from texas than they can collect in louisiana or arkansas.
This is what the people are like that came from new orleans, or at least about 95% of them.

Louisiana should hang its head in shame, and the whole governing body of louisiana should have to stand trial for their shameful acts of doing nothing to prepare for the inevitable.They should throw all casinos out of louisiana since the government is stealing the money for themselves.

Loisiana ,you should hang your head in shame.

By: Diane

Diane — Sun, 04 Dec 2005 07:12:20 +0000

Whose responsibility is it to maintain and shore up the levees?

Whose responsibility is it to direct a large area disaster?

By: Wisdom

Wisdom — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 01:03:00 +0000

5 years? no, more like 30 years that people knew that a major hurricane would eventually find its way up New Orleans’s ass and destroy the levees(that were built specifically to withstand nothing over a theoretical category 3 hurricane storm surge). Every year hurricane season comes around and when eveyone in South Louisiana says just how vulnerable the city is, no one seems to act on it. I can’t place blame but responsiblity for the city’s safety lies with the city first, state second and lastly the federal governement. As for those who think that all the people in New Orleans couldn’t get out because they were too poor, a little advice; never corner a desperate being(man or animal) because no matter how little, weak, unprepared and easy to control it may look there is ALWAYS somthing that it can do to fight back. These are not poeple who are “unable” to do what is necessary, they are unWILLING to do what is necessary to prepare and be ready for a threat that they have lived with for years.

By: Diane

Diane — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 22:56:41 +0000

5 years.

Bush has been President for FIVE years.

Not Clinton. Not anybody else. Bush.

Deal with the fact that this concerns BUSH. Not anybody else. Sorry, you don’t get to blame ANYBODY ELSE for the failings of “Trust me, I’m the Security Guy” Boy.

They had FOUR days to prepare for Katrina and still screwed the pooch. Deal with it.

Let’s face it: if the Chicago thing had happened under Bush’s watch? You’d be finding excuses for it.

Coward.

By: the truth

the truth — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 22:09:01 +0000

750 + people died in the Chicago heat wave in one week under Clinton’s first administration. Where was the Federal response then? New Orleans/Louisiana has corrupt politicians that let its own people down.

By: Jane

Jane — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 06:18:20 +0000

“Clinton was smart enough to realize this, and that’s why under Clinton, emergency planning was primarily a local issue, not a federal one.”

So you’re saying that Clinton had it right, and Bush **CHANGED IT** for the worse by making it a federal issue? Then are you not criticizing Bush by saying just that?

And by extension, the people you’re saying are angry “out of spite” are justified in being angry because of the poor choice Bush made in changing this.

I often wonder if logic is even taught in schools any more.

By: Diane

Diane — Sun, 04 Sep 2005 17:58:05 +0000

Gosh, I’m so impressed by someone posting with a pseudonym.

Since 9/11, the primary responsibility for disaster planning and coordination of efforts lies with FEMA, which is under the Department of Homeland Security. And no, you don’t have to take my word for it — take theirs.

By: asswsma

asswsma — Sat, 03 Sep 2005 19:20:56 +0000

People are blaming Bush for this out partisan spite.

Proof: What is the ideal thing that the federal government should have done in this this situation? They should have had buses right after the hurricane hit waiting for people to evacuate them. They should have had food and water and ice waiting for people after they were evacuated. They should have had ready made shelters prepared for people to stay in. But how could the federal government respond this quickly. The most obvious answer is that they should have had food, water and ice already inside the state of Lousiana so they didn’t have to bring it in. The buses should already have been in New Orleans before the hurricane hit so they didn’t have to be brought in. The refugee shelters should have been built in advance of the hurricane. BUT IF YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE EVERYTHING DONE INSIDE THE STATE BEFOREHAND THEN SHOULDN’T IT BE THE STATES GOVERNMENT THAT DOES IT IN THE FIRST PLACE, NOT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT? Obviously the answer is yes. It is remarkably stupid to expect a quick response if you are bringing stuff into the state from all over the country. The best thing is have everything prepared in advance and housed in state. This is what state governments are supposed to do. Not whine and expect the federal government to bail their asses out when they have made absolutely no preparation for a disaster that is most properly their primary responsibilty. The federal government is only supposed to provide assistence. It is not supposed to coordinate relief efforts, do emergency planning or provide an immediate response. These are things best done locally. Clinton was smart enough to realize this and that why under Clinton emergency planning was primarily a local issue not a federal one. It seems like liberals have become to blinded by partisan spite to see the obvious.