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To: Lane3 who wrote (137100)	9/4/2005 4:38:29 PM
From: Constant Reader	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793966

I really dont know why people keep looking right past the point. It is TRUE that most of the people who remained would NOT have left if busses and pick-up points were organized, but HOW MANY of the aged and infirm (for example) would have left if THEY HAD THE OPTION? How many of those people ARE DEAD because the state and the city FAILED to FOLLOW THE PLAN they designed? I read that the transit buses could handled about 90 people each and the school busses about 40 or 50. 350 transit buses = 31500 people. 200 school buses x 40 = 8,000. That's a hell of a lot more than 10% of those who remained behind. I'm not so stupid as to believe that the busses would have been full, but does anyone really think every one of those people remained behind by choice? There have been many failures in this disaster at all levels of government. This particular one strikes me as particularly indefensible. It smacks of Marie Antoinette's line about cake. Screw the poor, the aged and the infirm. Let's get out of town.