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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce
I wasn’t privy to the filmed briefing for the administration or the information the feds have available.
I only have the weather channel, the media and the internet. However, I knew the Gulf coast was in deep shit several days before Katrina hit.
If I knew, why didn’t the people that lived there know? Why were they waiting for the governments, state and federal to tell them? A shitload of people did leave before Katrina hit, I know some of them. Did they sneak out like the Baltimore Colts, in the middle of the night, without telling their neighbors?
We already know politicians are scum.
We already knew Bush is a lying bastard or the stupidest schmuck on the face of the Earth. I’ll go with the former.
This story simply confirms what we already knew, but to his longtime supporters, it won’t matter.
To reaffirm that “We The People” have to get off our collective asses and hold their feet to the fire. All of them, every “public servant”, whether elected, appointed or hired. And if they don’t respond, throw them out. It’s as much our fault as it is their’s.
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You forget one very important thing, Bruce. Low income people who were just making it paycheck to paycheck. Katrina had the audacity to strike at the end of the month. A lot of low income people didn't have the money for a tank full of gas to get the hell out of Dodge or the price of a bus ticket. And where were they supposed to go? Where would they stay once they got there? Sure, if you had a car and the money for a tank of gas and friends somewhere willing to take you in, it was a no brainer. The people who ended up in the Superdome were the elderly, the handicapped, the sick, and the children - the people most in need of assistance and the precisely the people who did not get it.
Yes, every politician's feet should now be blackened over the flame of our national outrage. "Shudda planned," is a response lacking in understanding of the realities of life among the lower income members of our society.