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Who cares who lied. All politicians tell big stories and as someone stated earlier it's only lying if they are under oath.
It don't take a lot of common sense to figure out if a cat. 4 storm is heading my way and the levy down the street is only rated at cat. 3 then I better pack my shit and get the hell outa dodge. I don't necessarily need the President to stop by and let me know the dangers of the levy being breached. If I have no means of moving myself then it's time to start walking. If I'm unable to walk then you can bet your sweet ass the phone will be ringing at city hall, not at the President's desk. It's not FEMAs responsibility to move me out of my house beforehand, thats the job of the LOCAL government and police. It's FEMAs responsibility after the disaster to provide local relief, not beforehand.
What we have here is a failure to communicate and properly prepare starting at the local level. There is no way possible for any federal response to take care of people that haven't enough common sense to take proper care of themselves.
Make no mistake, there was failures at the federal level but none that compares to the failures at the local level.
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