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I have to admit I'm pretty pissed about how both the mayor and governor responded to this, in particular the mayor. If I'm not mistaken, in a country with a libertarian federal government, the onus of authority is at the local level. You say that they (the governor & mayor) would be assisting with rescue and relocation in such a system. Is it implied that because they are in a republican system, that they are absolved of any blame...that all they needed to do was wait for the Feds to bail them out?
To my knowledge, the mayor did very little by way of helping people to evacuate - before, during and after the storm. There are pictures all over the Internet of bus yards filled with schoolbuses, which could have been used for evacuation/relocation purposes. Did this guy do ANYTHING to help the people of his city? If he did I'd like to know what it was. Then he proceeds with his public, emotional tirades against both the Feds and the governor that no one is helping his city. Seems to me he hit the deck, assumed the fetal position, and waited for the cavalry (the Federal government) to arrive.
I think that without a strong, central federal government to intervene and help out in such circumstances, the Nagins and Blancos of the world would grind the country down to nothing in a hurry.
/rant
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