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Originally Posted by Locobot
And I would take that bet. The main objection to Governor Blanco's response has been that she didn't "ask for help in the right way." Of course the record is pretty clear that she was asking everyone she could access on the federal level for "help." It may very well be fair to say that she didn't ask for the right specific types of help she needed. She is a former school teacher, with little or no experience with disaster management. It's also very fair to say that the people who did have this experience at FEMA were either laid off due to "Homeland Security" restructuring, Republican budget cuts, or not mobilized by the FEMA chief Michael Brown.
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I have admitted Bush should have done better. Are you suggesting there is nothing at the State and local level that could have been done to save lives?
Did new Orleans have a disater recovery plan?
Did they do enough at the local level to get people out of the area?
Did they have food and water reserves at the Super Dome in advance?
Did they use any state and local tax dollars to fortify the levy?
Did state and local police and fire have command and control centers?
Did they mobilize police, fire and municiple personnel to minimize damage after the fact?
Or, were all those things the responsibility of George Bush?
