WTF Is Taking So Long To Rescue Those People In N'Orleans???
 

This shit has no excuse. We responded faster to the Tsunami victims half a planet away!

It's 3 going on 4 days of this shit and no one could drop MREs or water packets?

This is INSANITY! If some rich famous somebody had been trapped in there the feds would have been in there faster than Rush Limbaugh at a free eats.

There is NO excuse. Someone said someone shot at a helicopter. So what? We have chopper drops in places where they're shooting SAMs!

No, something else is more important to the administration than it's citizens. Bush was on tv and talked more about the price of gas and what he's going to do to the reserves than about helping his own people!

There's slow, and then there's incompetence and then there's just downright hatefulness and stupidity.

Just think what the rest of America is thinking:

"Oh, if some shit happens I CANNOT depend on my own government to respond fast enough to save my ass!"

When the people are not the priority, it ain't American.

It's simple :

9/11 = Almost everyone is rich and white

Katrina = Almost everyone is black and poor

Bush didn't refuse foreign help for 9/11, it's not the case here.

Sure, some people will flame me, but I am not that far from the truth.

NoCarrier, as much as I don't want to, I'm fixed to agree with you.

This is not sitting well with race relations at all and it may be the beginning of the end of the infrastucture of the country as we know it.

It sure looks that way :(

I agree with you, and its sad to see but maybe some good will come of the mess in the end... (ie a new, better, more efficient & more organized infrastructure...)

Well Harry Connick Jr. will save the day. He went BACK to N'Orleans to report from the scene and is doing a concert to raise money.

WTF kind of country do we have when a 30 year old something singer and actor can show more balls than the elected officials?

Had this hurricane hit off the coast of Massachussetts everybody and their third cousin twice removed would have shown up to help.

Bush is a fucking idiot.

I guess mother nature fucked up his plans for global warfare. He can't stand to spend the money and resources to fulfill his oath of office if it gets in the way of his playing 'Crusader' and appeasing his Saudi sugar daddies.

There is no profit to be gained from engaging in quick action, nor can he gain any plus points for brown-nosing. Them poor black folks down there are not being given a shit about, at least not within a pressing time frame. I'm glad 'W' made damned sure to send 10s of thousands of his own troops to fight sand monkeys for their precious desert gold but just smirks like a fuckin baboon on TV when being addressed regarding people voicing concerns on the sluggishness of the rescue missions in the southern states.

Agreed, 110%

I'm going to shut up cause I just got TAUGHT.

Who knows whether it has anything to do with the state or those who live there - hindsight and some facts not yet available will tell on that.

The sad shit is the "progress" is lacking. To claim 70 coaches have been removed people from the area today is a fucking joke.

I thought even before Katrina hit, this was going to be serious and stuff and the dome in New Orlean's would end up a death camp. Let's hope not, but its' going that way.

Obviously the first aim is to get folks outta there - but they can't. So, what's happened with the second best thing - get em food an water dropped in? Maybe next week?

People supposedly better informed (FEMA Duh?) obviously can't calculate the extent of the possible damage - the New Orlean's problem was known for years. Bush.. he knows fuck all and ain't even competent in the first instance - don't expect any help from there.

It's not looking good - it's now (tonight!) help is needed. Tho the problem/damage is severe, this is sad shit for a civilized country.

lol why is that?

I don't recall the Tsunami victims shooting at their rescuers and raping, stealing and killing their fellow survivors.

My favorite in Bush's brabble today on live TV was when he was asked about national concerns regarding the lack of available funds for a large scale rescue mission of the next weeks, considering tens of millions of dollars are being poured into Iraq like it was a bottomless bucket. I wanted to launch at my girlfriend's aunt's TV with a hammer and just feel the satisfaction of not having to listen to his faggoty spew about fighting terror and that freedom will prevail. I seriously doubt that the thousands who lost family, property and possibly hope are really giving a tiny bird poop about Dubya and his war games overseas.

Then government knew the hurricane was going ot come day before and didn't bother using the logistics that America has. They should have had shitloads of supplies and helicopters setup 24 hours before the storm even hit. They have not learned anything from previous hurricanes??? WTF!!! :mad:

good point. but its still ridiculous how long its been to help these people.

"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Bush administration funding cuts forced federal engineers to delay improvements on the levees, floodgates and pumping stations that failed to protect New Orleans from Hurricane Katrina's floodwaters, agency documents showed on Thursday.

The former head of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the agency that handles the infrastructure of the nation's waterways, said the damage in New Orleans probably would have been much less extensive had flood-control efforts been fully funded over the years.

"Levees would have been higher, levees would have been bigger, there would have been other pumps put in," said Mike Parker, a former Mississippi congressman who headed the engineering agency from 2001 to 2002.

"I'm not saying it would have been totally alleviated but it would have been less than the damage that we have got now.""

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsAr...FUNDING-DC.XML

The area of the levi that broke was just upgraded so the left wing story that it's Bush's fault is an urban myth.

Here?s the source: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/01/na...rtner=homepage

For the truth, see a Chicago Tribune article the same day. Its lede says: ?The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Thursday that a lack of funding for hurricane-protection projects around New Orleans did not contribute to the disastrous flooding that followed Hurricane Katrina.?


The Tribune notes the decision to build the levees for a Category 3 storm was ?made decades ago.? Next, it says, ? ?I don't see that the level of funding was really a contributing factor in this case,? said Lt. Gen. Carl Strock, chief of engineers for the corps. ?Had this project been fully complete, it is my opinion that based on the intensity of this storm that the flooding of ... [New Orleans] would have still taken place.? ?