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To: combjelly who wrote (248550)	9/1/2005 6:20:24 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1574004

"The administration's response to this crisis has been swift and surefooted." Bullshit. They didn't even twitch until yesterday. A lot of stuff should have been going on before Katrina even hit shore. That was the IMPACT plan that got ditched. They did nothing but sit around with their thumbs up their butts. Over and over, they expect to get a free pass for their mistakes. Its infuriating because we all pay for them.....one way or another.......worse for some than others. BTW some good news...........a helicopter pilot is saying that it looks like the water is starting to recede in NO.

To: combjelly who wrote (248550)	9/1/2005 8:03:37 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1574004

>>> Bullshit. They didn't even twitch until yesterday. This remark is insane. Never in the nation's history has a relief effort geared up so quickly. Idiot media accounts based, not on fact, but on emotion, have totally muddied the perspective. The Administration got in front of this situation by effectively declaring it a disaster before the disaster happened. The storm left 72 hours ago. It was another 24 hours before the scope of the crisis expanded to include the REAL crisis -- a flood of New Orleans. In that 24 hours there have massive evacuations of people stranded in the floods. Including the evacuation, now underway, of tens of thousands of people from the Superdome -- a place which the locals had deemed appropriate for dealing with the scenario. In addition, emergency workers are having to do this work while defending themselves against gunfire from street gangs. Major evacuations of Charity Hospital (a huge facility for those unfamilar with it) as well as other local hospitals, including critically ill patients. All this, while EVERY SIGNIFICANT HIGHWAY -- including I10, Highway 90, and the Causeway are destroyed and impassable. The airport is not usable due to lack of instrument support and runway lights. The local police and emergency facilities have ZERO ability to communicate due to loss of radios, land, and cellular phone capabilities. It wouldn't matter -- the city cannot be navigated in any vehicle besides a boat anyway. No place to put criminals. No place to take injured. And FEMA is delivering within 48 hours. Anyone who bitches about is either ignorant or mounting the usual ABB attacks. Thinking people realize, with amazement, just how fantastic this response has been.