Bush is responsible for the Hurricane and everything else that has ever went wrong in America. I hear the man set up giant fans out in the ocean and wipped up the hurricane just so he and his buddies could raise the gas prices. He wanted to kill off all the poor negros in the south and this was the best way to do it. Face it Bush will produce an earthquake soon to wipe out the liberals in California. When it comes to a bad guy Bush is the babbest of them all.
Originally posted by TheSkipperthanks for that info Skipper - I was actually going to follow up tonight to check when the emergency was declared, because I'd heard a couple of different things... I'll check it out..
The Gov. of LA declared a state of emergency on AUG. 26th. Two days prior to the storm making landfall. It is my understanding that the moment she did that it became 'federalised'.
TheSkipper
The evacuation procedures are not a federal issue though... these procedures should have commenced 72 hours prior to expected landfall. But even now, local police are going through the city, trying to round up the last hold-outs... it's clearly the locals that are handling the evacuation. Evacuation is never a federal issue when it comes to hurricaines, all local and state governments are responsible in cases such as this.
when i copied and pasted the N.O. emergency plan from the city's own web site (URL given in my first post I believe), it turned out to be a 27 page document... but when you read through it, it becomes apparent that the failure to mobilize was the fault of the locals, the Mayor particularly. I mean, NOW he's trying to force people to evacuate?? Where's he been?
More and more people out there are realizing where the fault lies here. The 'mainstream' press ain't gettin' away with it no mo'.
Originally posted by Thequ1ckso when you said
Todays missiles weigh in at about $1.3million each. OK it's
a far cry from the 1-2billion dollars needed to prepare for a
category 5 storm but it's only a fraction of Bush's $401 billion
defense budget.
Wanna see where the money's going?
http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/2004/nr20040202-0301.html
"To properly fortify the levees of New Orleans would have been the same price as 1 or 2 cruise missiles."
you meant $2.6 million?
One other thing about Katrina -
from: http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/9/7/235423.shtml
full text of this article follows:
Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2005 11:52 p.m. EDT
Gov. Kathleen Blanco's Bureaucrats Blocked Food and Water
The Red Cross was reportedly ready to deliver food, water and other supplies to flood-ravaged refugees who were sweltering inside New Orleans' Superdome last week - but the relief was blocked by bureaucrats who worked for Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco.
Fox News Channel's Major Garrett reported Wednesday that the Red Cross had "trucks with water, food, hygiene equipment, all sorts of things ready to go ... to the Superdome and Convention Center."
But the Louisiana Department of Homeland Security, Garrett said, "told them they could not go."
"The Red Cross tells me that Louisiana's Department of Homeland Security said, 'Look, we do not want to create a magnet for more people to come to the Superdome or Convention Center, we want to get them out,'" he explained.
"So at the same time local officials were screaming where is the food, where is the water, the Red Cross was standing by ready [and] the Louisiana Department of Homeland Security said you can't go."
<END OF ARTICLE>
Pretty obvious Blanco is a racist, according to the definitions I've heard lately, namely, "someone who wants blacks to die".
Sounds like if anyone wanted to kill poor blacks in New Orleans, it was the honorable Gov. Blanco.
NEWS FLASH:
From http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/07/AR2005090702462.html
...In Katrina's wake, Louisiana politicians and other critics have complained about paltry funding for the Army Corps in general and Louisiana projects in particular. But OVER THE FIVE YEARS OF PRESIDENT BUSH'S ADMINISTRATION, LOUISIANA HAS RECEIVED FAR MORE MONEY FOR CORP CIVIL WORKS PROJECTS THAN ANY OTHER STATE , about $1.9 billion; California was a distant second with less than $1.4 billion, even though its population is more than seven times as large...
(emphasis mine, of course).
y'all can read the rest of it yourselves...
Originally posted by PawnHotRedThat is correct it is a state issue because the government can't just intrude and force you to handle weather conditions to their liking.
Whatever. You are all wrong. No-one from FEMA planned for the Levies to break - everyone seems to miss that point. That is why they sent refugees to the Superdome where no food, water etc was, they thought they would just ride out the storm and send people back in 12 hours or so. Bush is NOT FEMA. The roads were destroyed, airports, ports, no phones, ...[text shortened]... ust a matter of time) and kills thousands well at least the government will know what to expect.
The president and congress has got billions of dollars heading their way.
One more point:
Don't forget that the government and military did its job on time!
The U.S. Coast Guard is a branch of the military and it is controlled by Goerge W. Bush.
They have been actively rescuing people from day one, I am in the Coast Guard and I know that right now we have rescued 32,000 people.
The national guard has to be called up by the individual state.
We, the military did our job, New Orleans did not!
Originally posted by zeeblebotI actually had $50m in mind, as this was the amount that Bush's
so when you said
"To properly fortify the levees of New Orleans would have been the same price as 1 or 2 cruise missiles."
you meant $2.6 million?
proposals fell short of for the southeast Louisiana's chief hurricane protection project. (38 Cruise missiles).
However, the $4m requested for a study into what was needed for
New Orleans to protect itself from a cat 4-5 storm would have
probabley provided some relevent insights. (3 missiles).
Or even the $300,000 dollars required to start the project that was
turned down by Bush due to the high costs of the Iraq war (1/4 of a cruise missile).
Meanwhile Bush was putting forward a $401 billion dollar defence
budget and had agreed to a '$286.4 billion pork-laden highway bill
that included more than 6,000 pet projects for lawmakers. Congress
spent money on dust control for Arkansas roads, a warehouse on the
Erie Canal and a $231 million bridge to a small, uninhabited Alaskan island'.
Originally posted by Thequ1cksee, it's Congress's fault ...
Meanwhile Bush was putting forward a $401 billion dollar defence
budget and had agreed to a '$286.4 billion pork-laden highway bill
that included more than 6,000 pet projects for lawmakers. Congress
spent money on dust control for Arkansas roads, a warehouse on the
Erie Canal and a $231 million bridge to a small, uninhabited Alaskan island'.
Originally posted by Thequ1cksee the bloop's post above re how much was spent on La. relative to the rest of the country ...
I actually had $50m in mind, as this was the amount that Bush's
proposals fell short of for the southeast Louisiana's chief hurricane protection project. (38 Cruise missiles).
However, the $4m requested for a study into what was needed for
New Orleans to protect itself from a cat 4-5 storm would have
probabley provided some relevent insights. (3 mi ...[text shortened]... t that was
turned down by Bush due to the high costs of the Iraq war (1/4 of a cruise missile).
"The Gov. of LA declared a state of emergency on AUG. 26th. Two days prior to the storm making landfall. It is my understanding that the moment she did that it became 'federalised'. "
No. She needs to ask the government for help. Until that point, the LA Nat. Guard is under her control.
Basically.
Originally posted by Morrenthe National Guard is still under state control ... a week or so after the flood, the feds proposed putting the National Guard and the federal military jointly under federal control and she refused ...
"The Gov. of LA declared a state of emergency on AUG. 26th. Two days prior to the storm making landfall. It is my understanding that the moment she did that it became 'federalised'. "
No. She needs to ask the government for help. Until that point, the LA Nat. Guard is under her control.
Basically.