09-17-2005, 04:24 AM
No. They are not. FEMA is not a first response unit. They never have been. And aren't supposed to be. And great they had food and water. Am I supposed to write a paragraph on all the shit they didn't have? How can you expect to house 15,000 people for 3 days with no medical staff, no medicine, no sleeping areas. Is that Washington's responsiblity to have at the ready? Just poof make it all appear in three days? Jesus Christ think about the process.
All I've been saying is local officials are responsible for the amount of people stuck there because they didn't come up with alternate ways for people to leave, they are responsible for the horrid conditions in the Superdome (crime, conditions, supplies), and they are responsible for the looting, crime, murders, etc as a result. The local officials are 100% responsible for setting the procedures and executing them initially. The apparant sloth of FEMA and the federal government responding is a completely separate and simiarly horrible performance, but only worsened the conditions that resulted from the local official's performance.
This has absolutely nothing to do with who happens to be president right now. I'm guessing that I'm labelled as a Bush apologist because when all these issues come up, I'm normally give the President a pass because I don't think it's the President's job to do anything but foreign policy. However, since every nation on the planet despises us, he's not doing a good job at even that.
Saying that New Orleans and LA local officials are more to blame than the federal government is not defending anyone. You are a retard, Arpi.
All I've been saying is local officials are responsible for the amount of people stuck there because they didn't come up with alternate ways for people to leave, they are responsible for the horrid conditions in the Superdome (crime, conditions, supplies), and they are responsible for the looting, crime, murders, etc as a result. The local officials are 100% responsible for setting the procedures and executing them initially. The apparant sloth of FEMA and the federal government responding is a completely separate and simiarly horrible performance, but only worsened the conditions that resulted from the local official's performance.
This has absolutely nothing to do with who happens to be president right now. I'm guessing that I'm labelled as a Bush apologist because when all these issues come up, I'm normally give the President a pass because I don't think it's the President's job to do anything but foreign policy. However, since every nation on the planet despises us, he's not doing a good job at even that.
Saying that New Orleans and LA local officials are more to blame than the federal government is not defending anyone. You are a retard, Arpi.