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    Quote Originally Posted by JITB
    the point of the whole comment was, that the hole in NY isnt cleaned up yet, so how do u expect to get a whole city cleaned up in a year.
    I usually agree with you, but not this time bud.

    If you watch the interview, the interviewer asked Mayor Nagin why THIS section of NO wasn't cleaned up yet after a year (a section if I'm not mistaken right in the middle of town) NOT the ENTIRE NO region. He came back with the smart ass remark of "NY hasn't cleaned up the big hole yet...".

    It was an asenine remark. He answered a question with a question.



    When the government officials say they are gonna do something and its not done ppl get angry.
    FEMA by LAW can only come into a situation AFTER the LOCAL GOV'T requests their help. It is a well known fact that right after the hurricane came thru FEMA ASKED both the Gov and the Mayor and BOTH declined at first......why? Who the hell knows. Now they are trying to shift the blame of what was THEIR responsability to begin with onto FEMA'S and Bush's shoulders rather than admitting they screwed up majorly themselves to begin with. THAT my friend IS the point the media will not focus on because it doesn't sell as good as carnage and finger pointing. Should we bring up the 1000 school buses left sitting there while people drowned? Should we bring up WHERE Mr. Nagin was after the storm (he took up residence in a luxury suite at a hotel to "survey" the damage )??? LOCAL GOVT screwed the pooch on that one wayyyyy before the feds ever got a chance to. Why is that little tid bit being swept under the rug?


    i dont know how many times u all have to be told, that the funds for the leavy repair was cut alooong time ago. It was a big fuck up.. cant really blame anyone mayor - governor - president, noone was ready, nobody tought it was gonna be that bad.
    Go back and read WHERE those funds were DIVERTED to......by Blanco......to her special interests LOCALLY....... Again, why is that not being blown all up? Hmmmm, because blaming Bush for "blowing up the leviees and purposely drowning poor black people" sells more papers.

    The U.S. Corp of Engineers had told for YEARS about the leviees not withstanding a Cat 4, let alone a Cat 5 hurricane. Go back and see WHEN KATRINA was classified a Cat 4......then a Cat 5.......WHERE was Nagin and Blanco then????? Why didn't they evacuate? Why did they divert funds for the leviees to special interests? Why did they not mobilize their National guardsmen to help people?

    There is plenty of blame to go around. There is plenty of evidence that points directly at WHO is to blame and WHO had plenty of time to avoid a major catastrophe like this, but it's about politics now. Democrats will blame everyone but themselves. It's that simple.

    It's like blaming Bush for not getting your couch out in time when your house was foreclosed on. That doesn't happen from one day to the next, does it? Of course not. You get notices. You get registered mail. You get phone calls. You get all kinds of chances to fix it or get out. Finally a sheriff shows up and all of a sudden you're gonna complain that you didn't have time to save your favorite couch????? Who's fault is that? The gov't or you?



    my cousins house still has no power, and they still havent received their insurance money for their house, or anything, but they moved back already and started over in july form the scratch.
    That's actually the truly sad part. People that had insurance and now the insurance refuses to pay. THAT is a shame. They are truly victims. Insurance companies are low.

    I'm sorry about your family. Hope they get back to normalsy soon.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jaimecbr900
    I usually agree with you, but not this time bud.

    If you watch the interview, the interviewer asked Mayor Nagin why THIS section of NO wasn't cleaned up yet after a year (a section if I'm not mistaken right in the middle of town) NOT the ENTIRE NO region. He came back with the smart ass remark of "NY hasn't cleaned up the big hole yet...".

    It was an asenine remark. He answered a question with a question.





    FEMA by LAW can only come into a situation AFTER the LOCAL GOV'T requests their help. It is a well known fact that right after the hurricane came thru FEMA ASKED both the Gov and the Mayor and BOTH declined at first......why? Who the hell knows. Now they are trying to shift the blame of what was THEIR responsability to begin with onto FEMA'S and Bush's shoulders rather than admitting they screwed up majorly themselves to begin with. THAT my friend IS the point the media will not focus on because it doesn't sell as good as carnage and finger pointing. Should we bring up the 1000 school buses left sitting there while people drowned? Should we bring up WHERE Mr. Nagin was after the storm (he took up residence in a luxury suite at a hotel to "survey" the damage )??? LOCAL GOVT screwed the pooch on that one wayyyyy before the feds ever got a chance to. Why is that little tid bit being swept under the rug?




    Go back and read WHERE those funds were DIVERTED to......by Blanco......to her special interests LOCALLY....... Again, why is that not being blown all up? Hmmmm, because blaming Bush for "blowing up the leviees and purposely drowning poor black people" sells more papers.

    The U.S. Corp of Engineers had told for YEARS about the leviees not withstanding a Cat 4, let alone a Cat 5 hurricane. Go back and see WHEN KATRINA was classified a Cat 4......then a Cat 5.......WHERE was Nagin and Blanco then????? Why didn't they evacuate? Why did they divert funds for the leviees to special interests? Why did they not mobilize their National guardsmen to help people?

    There is plenty of blame to go around. There is plenty of evidence that points directly at WHO is to blame and WHO had plenty of time to avoid a major catastrophe like this, but it's about politics now. Democrats will blame everyone but themselves. It's that simple.

    It's like blaming Bush for not getting your couch out in time when your house was foreclosed on. That doesn't happen from one day to the next, does it? Of course not. You get notices. You get registered mail. You get phone calls. You get all kinds of chances to fix it or get out. Finally a sheriff shows up and all of a sudden you're gonna complain that you didn't have time to save your favorite couch????? Who's fault is that? The gov't or you?





    That's actually the truly sad part. People that had insurance and now the insurance refuses to pay. THAT is a shame. They are truly victims. Insurance companies are low.

    I'm sorry about your family. Hope they get back to normalsy soon.

    i can agree with that.. but still u have to atleast say that the blame is spread all aroudn from no themselves and even to the governmen, but politics have twisted it all up like u said.. the whole situation was just bad bad bad and could havebeen dealt with better.

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