Before taking this overbearing and costly administrative agency to task for their own ineptness it should be pointed out that the local government of New Orleans and the State government of Louisiana weren't any examples of shining government models. … There was an abundance of lead time in prediction of this storm from both the National Hurricane Center and the National Weather Service, but New Orleans is known as a party town and like the Aesop's Fable of the grasshopper and the Ant, New Orleans found itself a hapless little grasshopper while the survivors scurried about like desperate land agitated little ants. New Orleans Mayor, Ray Nagin, failed to implement effective evacuation plans, directing people to a shelter of last resort that had no food nor water, no security nor sanitary conditions. To make things worse, Nagin refused to use available school buses to aid in the delayed and inept evacuation citing lack of a proper insurance policy to do so. There's a responsible leader for you, in the event of an emergency first check your insurance policy and see if it is allowed to survive. That action alone is estimated to have caused the deaths of several hundred people.
The initial supplies of food and water and other necessities brought in by F.E.M.A. were depleted quickly in a large part because of State and local governments refusal to issue timely evacuation notices. While on paper F.E.M.A. likes to bluster and blow hard about its so called authority the truth is, being a federal agency, they lacked the proper jurisdiction to do much of what needed to be done.
There's plenty of blame to go around, but you only want to blame President Bush, like the partisan hack you are.
It goes on to point out that many of FEMA's actions were simply inept. And you wonder why we greet statements like "Hello, we're from the government and we're here to help" with cynicism. Yet despite such institutional buffoonery, you want to turn even more of our lives—especially our health care—over to even more such buffoonery.
4. It has long been standard practice that emergency response begins at the lowest possible jurisdictional level – typically the local government, with state government becoming involved at the local government’s request when the resources of local government are (or are expected to be) overwhelmed. Similarly, while the federal government provides ongoing financial support to state and local governments for emergency preparedness, ordinarily it becomes involved in responding to a disaster at a state’s request when resources of state and local governments are (or are expected to be) overwhelmed. Louisiana’s Emergency Operations Plan explicitly lays out this hierarchy of response.
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Why did it take so long for FEMA to respond to Katrina?
Before taking this overbearing and costly administrative agency to task for their own ineptness it should be pointed out that the local government of New Orleans and the State government of Louisiana weren't any examples of shining government models.
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There was an abundance of lead time in prediction of this storm from both the National Hurricane Center and the National Weather Service, but New Orleans is known as a party town and like the Aesop's Fable of the grasshopper and the Ant, New Orleans found itself a hapless little grasshopper while the survivors scurried about like desperate land agitated little ants. New Orleans Mayor, Ray Nagin, failed to implement effective evacuation plans, directing people to a shelter of last resort that had no food nor water, no security nor sanitary conditions. To make things worse, Nagin refused to use available school buses to aid in the delayed and inept evacuation citing lack of a proper insurance policy to do so. There's a responsible leader for you, in the event of an emergency first check your insurance policy and see if it is allowed to survive. That action alone is estimated to have caused the deaths of several hundred people.
The initial supplies of food and water and other necessities brought in by F.E.M.A. were depleted quickly in a large part because of State and local governments refusal to issue timely evacuation notices. While on paper F.E.M.A. likes to bluster and blow hard about its so called authority the truth is, being a federal agency, they lacked the proper jurisdiction to do much of what needed to be done.
There's plenty of blame to go around, but you only want to blame President Bush, like the partisan hack you are.
It goes on to point out that many of FEMA's actions were simply inept. And you wonder why we greet statements like "Hello, we're from the government and we're here to help" with cynicism. Yet despite such institutional buffoonery, you want to turn even more of our lives—especially our health care—over to even more such buffoonery.
You're a genius, you are. [/sarc]
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Simple questions Mark refuses to answer:
Is the Constitution law? (43 days and counting)
Is "false" equal to "truth"? (5 days and counting)
Bonus question:
Why would an uninsured person going to the ER cause insurance rates to go up? (3 days and counting)
Conclusion to the Senate report on Katrina
4. It has long been standard practice that emergency response begins at the lowest possible jurisdictional level – typically the local government, with state government becoming involved at the local government’s request when the resources of local government are (or are expected to be) overwhelmed. Similarly, while the federal government provides ongoing financial support to state and local governments for emergency preparedness, ordinarily it becomes involved in responding to a disaster at a state’s request when resources of state and local governments are (or are expected to be) overwhelmed. Louisiana’s Emergency Operations Plan explicitly lays out this hierarchy of response.
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