Here's a great article from
Slate.com
Here is my favorite except:
Quote:
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Originally Posted by slate.com
How is it possible that with the fourth anniversary of 9/11 almost upon us, the federal government doesn't have in hand the capability to prepare for and then manage a large urban disaster, natural or man-made? In terms of the challenge to government, there is little difference between a terrorist attack that wounds many people and renders a significant portion of a city uninhabitable, and the fallout this week from the failure of one of New Orleans' major levees. Indeed, a terrorist could have chosen a levee for his target. Or a dirty-bomb attack in New Orleans could have caused the same sort of forced evacuation we are seeing and the widespread sickness that is likely to follow.
Chertoff's Department of Homeland Security demonstrated today that it could organize an impressive press conference in Washington, lining up every participating civilian or military service from the Coast Guard to the Federal Emergency Management Agency to promise its cooperation. But on the ground in Louisiana, where it counts, DHS is turning out to be the sum of its inefficient parts. The department looks like what its biggest critics predicted: a new level of bureaucracy grafted onto a collection of largely ineffectual under-agencies.
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As I posted earlier, FEMA and the rest of the Federal Government are lagging, but to take it a step further, with this, as WITH EVERY SINGLE FUCKING PROGRAM the feds take up, it is a complete disaster.
\queues up the end of Braveheart...mounts high horse.
I still want to hang the mayor of New Orleans by his testicles then watch his constituents eviserate then draw and quarter his worthless ass...and have the Governor of LA's ovaries removed without anethesia so she can no longer pollute our species with her genes, but I also want to give credit where credit is due. While 90% of this aftermath debacle is of local making, it was...hell still is...not beyond resolution if the DHS would get it's collective head out of its ass and get things under control.
\turns off 'Braveheart' and steps off of high horse
The biggest problem was the lack of desire to deal with the lawlessness and looting. It snowballed and the 'lord of the flies' mentality that exists now is a direct result of this inaction.
Thank you moral relativism, political correctness, and the compassion and understanding industries.
Why do people think that human nature can be altered or even tamed?
-bear