I have kept my mouth shut as long as I can. Many of you know how hard that is for me. This New Orleans fiasco has finally gone past warning level red to warning level ABSURD! If I hear one more bleeding heart liberal blame this unorganized mess on the federal government, I think I might lose my mind.
The Big Sleazy's Mayor, Ray Nagin, has to be one of the all time great tools. This joker didnt understand the economic layout of his own town. Did he actually think those thousands of individuals living in the hundreds of projects and low income housing were going hear his magical voice on the radio and hop in their SUVs and caravan out of town? It seems as though the city of New Orleans had thrown out any idea of an emergency plan years ago. Just as most partys go, everyone has a good time, then the cleanup is always left for a small handful of dedicated designated drivers. The federal government is now taking the blame for not taking care of the people that they were already taking care of.
Mayor Nagin is now laying blame on the federal government because his town was more worried about the parades, Daquiri bars and the parties than creating a viable plan for an emergency just like this. The mayor and the thousands involved complain about communication and the lack there of.
"They don't have a clue what's going on down there," New Orleans MayorRay Nagin told WWL-AM Thursday night. "Excuse my French everybody in America, but I am pissed."
"I need reinforcements, I need troops, man. I need 500 buses," Nagin said in a television interview Friday morning. "Get every dog-gone Greyhound bus line in the country and get that [expletive] moving to New Orleans ... This is a major, major, major deal. I can't emphasize that enough."
You know why we dont have a clue what is going on down there? Because the emergency service plan for the City of New Orleans stinks. It seems like the mayor and his band of city planners would have FORESEEN this. I mean, come on, that is the same idiom being leveled against the President and the federal government. President Bush should have foreseen this?? Come on, the Big Sleazy is the one that is supposed to have all the psychics, witch doctors and mojo men, maybe Nagin needs to get a few of those on staff.
At least the New Orleans governing body is handling this in an intelligent and dignified way... Oh wait ("Get every dog-gone Greyhound bus line in the country and get that [expletive] moving to New Orleans ...), I may be wrong.
"This is a national disgrace," said New Orleans' emergency operations chief Terry Ebbert. "We can send massive amounts of aid to tsunami victims, but we can't bail out the city of New Orleans."
National disgrace? One of the oldest cities in this country has no plan to insure the survival and well being of it citizens, and they suddenly make it a national disgrace.Here in Hope, Arkansas, we are feeding, housing, clothing and counseling about 400 of the refugees. The Hempstead country emergency management team has done an excellent job. Sure, we havent had a catastrophe, but our planis working and doing what it was designed to do.
I hope that this doesnt sound like I am insensitive to the problems they are having in New Orleans, trust me I cant even begin to imagine what they are going through.I just wish they would worry more about helping these people and not so much on who to blame.
manteca the insensitive
