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To: tejek who wrote (376620)	4/6/2008 2:09:48 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578157

"Assuming Nagin had used the school buses, I am not sure where he would have evacuated over a 100 thousand, very poor people." A good point. But, as i-node keeps demonstrating, he doesn't have the slightest clue what scale can do to a particular problem. But here is a guy arguing that anything less than evacuating 100% of the population of a major city in a matter of hours is the only solution. Conveniently ignoring the fact it has never been done. Not even close. Now, with your background, how do you think it could have been done?

To: tejek who wrote (376620)	4/6/2008 2:27:26 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 1578157

Assuming Nagin had used the school buses, I am not sure where he would have evacuated over a 100 thousand, very poor people. Perhaps. But how in the world do you expect the federal government (which everyone agrees is not and cannot be a first responder) to do this when the local government cannot crank up hundreds of school buses and do it on their own? It was stupid of Nagin not to have called for and enforced a mandatory evacuation. And it is absurd to expect the federal government to take up the slack for incompetence at both the mayoral and the state level. The attempts to blame Bush for this catastrophe is just one more example of liberal partisan bashing in cooperation with an extremist liberal media.