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Replies to '09/12-13 Hurricane Katrina: Rescuing the Rescuers and Rebuilding'
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September 13, 2005, 6:45 pm PDT
 Quote From: aspiemom1 It's easy for people to sit back and expect others to take care of them. Then if it doesn't happen, they have someone else to blame. People should have evacuated the area when told to and the local government should have had a plan for those who were too poor to leave of their own accord. The Mayor was shown telling each family to have a plan for such a disaster, but evidently the people didn't.
I don't see this as the Presidents fault. I think the problem that followed the days immediately after were due to the people themselves and the local government that should have had a plan and carried it out.
ie. We are told to wear seatbelts. It's the law. So when we're involved in an accident and someone thrown from the car and killed, is it the fault of the car that hit them, the fault of the car maker, the fault of the parent? We're each responsible to a certain extent for ourselves and our family. Stop blaming the President for everything! I do think that the local and state government bears a good deal of fault too. They have known about the levee situation for years. And a city that sits below sea level should have had a better evacuation plan. But when a major US city turns into a third world country, I expect the federal government to act...reasonably quickly. Its scary to think that if a terrorist attack were to hit a major US city today and the water supply was compromised or a dirty bomb was exploded that it might take the better part of a week for the feds to act. And this is 4 yrs post 9/11. We had several days warning that Katrina was going to strike and still all levels of government seemed to fail.
Plus most of these people didn't evacuate because they didn't have a way to evacuate. If you don't have a car, relatives or money for other transportation...where do you go? What if you were in a wheelchair and had no one to help you other than to drop you at the convention center? What if you had a newborn baby and not a drop of water for 4 days? It was the poorest of the poor and the elderly who got stuck there (well okay, along with a few people who thought they could ride it out).
And for those who say I'm a democrat...you are totally wrong! I am very conservative, but I'm also intelligent enough to look at the facts. I don't vote for a political party...I vote for the most qualified person and there's no way in the world that would ever be George W. He is the most ignorant person ever to hold the office of president. I used to dislike Clinton because I thought he acted without personal discretion and embarrassed the office of the presidency. But Bush is so incompetent that I long for the Clinton days. We will be lucky if we can last until Bush is out of office without getting involved in another war over WMDs that don't exist or whatever the next fabricated thing is on the agenda. |
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