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Originally Posted by aceventura3
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?
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No, I'm not. What I am suggesting is that the most egregious and most reprehensible errors occured at the federal level through negligence and, as a corollary to this thread, the encapsulated nature of the Bush whitehouse.
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Did new Orleans have a disater recovery plan?
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Yes.
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Did they do enough at the local level to get people out of the area?
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"enough" is subjective. We've all seen the photos of the rows and rows of school buses sitting idle in the flood water. We also know however that that lot had never flooded before. We also know that those buses were fueled and ready to go before the flooding but the national guard failed to supply drivers as requested. The city was evacuated by the order of the mayor, this is where I believe FEMA should have become involved not 10 days later. And yes, the evacuation of cities is fully under their jurisdiction constitutionally.
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Did they have food and water reserves at the Super Dome in advance?
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No.
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Did they use any state and local tax dollars to fortify the levy?
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Yes.
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Did state and local police and fire have command and control centers?
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Yes, but they were flooded.
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Did they mobilize police, fire and municiple personnel to minimize damage after the fact?
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Yes.
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Or, were all those things the responsibility of George Bush?
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These are your ideas, not mine. yay! I get to quote myself:
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It may very well be fair to say that she didn't ask for the right specific types of help she needed.
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