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To: combjelly who wrote (376505)	4/5/2008 9:43:05 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576884

but that was what he was waiting for

To: combjelly who wrote (376505)	4/6/2008 1:08:01 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576884

>> Never said any different. No, but you have been complicit in laying blame with the federal disaster relief, when the reality is the lack of LOCAL competence that created the humanitarian disaster. FEMA reacted as swiftly as one could reasonably have expected. Had Ray Nagin had any sense he could have easily arranged for food and water and convention center and Astrodome well in advance of this disaster. As a practical matter, within walking distance of the convention center there are at least 20 major hotels and 100 or more restaurants, in addition to a sizable casino with the collective ability to feed thousands. They could have easily arranged to take care of those people and failed to do so. This area was not flooded and with only good sense, accommodations could have been made -- by the locals -- well before FEMA could reasonably have been expected to arrive there. More importantly, everyone knew going in the risk the city faced from a storm of Katrina's magnitude. The disaster was caused, not by a poor response from FEMA, but by absolute non-existent planning on the parts of local officials. Bush wrongly accepted responsibility for it, but really had no alternative -- when the media and everyone in the country lines up against you, you cannot disclaim responsibility even though it was never your fault. The simple truth is the dirt-poor population of NOLA wanted someone to bail them out and Nagin pointed the finger at the Feds and everyone just ran with it. As a frequent visitor to NOLA -- most recently, in Feb for Mardi Gras, I can tell you that they are no more prepared today than they were before the storm. Life in the French Quarter is just like it always was; but you cannot take a city that nature wants to be underwater and somehow, keep it safe. Today, murder and other violent crime is rampant, and you cannot lay that on anything other than an incompetent local leadership.