Beating a dead horse
Jan. 6th, 2007 01:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vernardThe City That Bush Forgot
I'm blaming Bush because its his job to be the guy at the top to get blamed when bad stuff happens on his watch. Sorry, but that is the way it is if you are going to be the "leader of the free world" so to speak.
Its enough to make me want to go into politics to fix this kind of stupid stuff.
EDIT:
This is what I get for cutting from a Windows machine and trying to paste into a Linux window *sigh*. I just turned the blasted windows box off like I should have to start with :-) Unfortunately I can't find the link that I was origianlly peddling. To summarize, it basically talked about how there was actually NO actual evacuation plans for the city of New Orleans. There was reference to a university professor that had evidence of the inadequacy of the levees, some really body cronyism regarding the folks that were contracted to actually design and distribute the evacuation plan and of course the actual knowledge of when the levees broke. Lots of smoking guns. If I do find it, I'll definitely post it.
EDIT 2: Thanks to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
st_darwin for finding the link to the article for me. Now I preface this with the fact that this is a finger-pointing type article that is not kind to Bush at all so make sure to have your salt-shaker close at hand when reading it. Also make sure to read the responsezx by st_dwivian and st_darwin as well as they both point out even more useful and interesting facts about the situation as well.
I'm blaming Bush because its his job to be the guy at the top to get blamed when bad stuff happens on his watch. Sorry, but that is the way it is if you are going to be the "leader of the free world" so to speak.
Its enough to make me want to go into politics to fix this kind of stupid stuff.
EDIT:
This is what I get for cutting from a Windows machine and trying to paste into a Linux window *sigh*. I just turned the blasted windows box off like I should have to start with :-) Unfortunately I can't find the link that I was origianlly peddling. To summarize, it basically talked about how there was actually NO actual evacuation plans for the city of New Orleans. There was reference to a university professor that had evidence of the inadequacy of the levees, some really body cronyism regarding the folks that were contracted to actually design and distribute the evacuation plan and of course the actual knowledge of when the levees broke. Lots of smoking guns. If I do find it, I'll definitely post it.
EDIT 2: Thanks to
st_darwin for finding the link to the article for me. Now I preface this with the fact that this is a finger-pointing type article that is not kind to Bush at all so make sure to have your salt-shaker close at hand when reading it. Also make sure to read the responsezx by st_dwivian and st_darwin as well as they both point out even more useful and interesting facts about the situation as well.
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Date: 2007-01-06 09:03 pm (UTC)There is no Republican tradition for FEMA. There is a FEMA tradition of failure, yes, but it isn't "Republican".... FEMA has been mangled as a result of how it exists after the realignment of regional Civil Defense system (I used to work as a First Responder in this system, back in the day). The realignment began under the Democrats and continued under the Republicans, who really screwed it when it got stuck under DHS. There will be no difference in FEMA under the Democrats, I fear, as it is so far down their radar as to be a non-issue. The continued failures won't become a "Democrat" tradition at that point, but merely be another chapter in the mess that arose when centralization of planning was attempted to handle what are, by definition, regional events.