I saw one good point made on the televison last night…
How could all of the TV & they crews get in there but the army/nat. guard/fema, etc claim that transport was impossible.
Not all of the journalists were there before the storm.
It’s just sad… & infuriating that being poor & black means you don’t count.
It makes me gag to here over & over “we are the ricest country in the world”… you are only as rich as your poorest citizen, only as priviledged as your most repressed (IMO)
In that context it rates just above the 3rd world, maybe below now as at least the 3rd world has relief agencies setting up shelters.
My sister who is a postgrad in Archeology told me the following information regarding the cost of keeping troups in foreign countries/close to boarders:
From a historical perspective moving large numbers of troups to an area to “protect” boarders etc… will almost inevitably result in war. Why?
Because once you have moved troups to an area the cost of keeping them there is massive. However, the political cost of withdrawing them is also high because the other side can claim “victory”. Therefore, there comes a point where the only way of justifying this massive financial investment is to go to war.
Many of the wars throughout history happened for this very reason and it still continues even today.
For politcal leaders hell bent on war it is also a very useful way of getting things moving because getting permission to send troups to a boarder is relatively easy compared to saying OK lets just go to war right away. Once the wheels are in motion it is only a matter of time until they will get thier way… e.g. Iraq.
“He” is a she. The Feds claim she didn’t ask for help properly (BTW, merely by coincidence, she’s a Democrat)
Locals should have a plan? How is that possible since the plan must be to get out and go to another jurisdiction?
The National Guard was created for National Emergency. If it can’t fulfill that role, is it the locals fault as well?
Does FEMA and Homeland Security have no planning responsibility at all? If not, why are they there? All that seems to happen is that supplies from the military are reallocated to affected areas, eventually and after the fact.
If all responsibility is local, shouldn’t the money be allocated locally rather than taken to Washington?
If no one is held to account, will anything change?
I call bullshit on that one Clemson. Yes the locals drop the ball, but there is no way in hell it should have taken 5 days for the feds to send help. Do you believe if this was Beverly Hills you would still have people on roofs, dead bodies pushed in some corner, helicopters just droping food and each man has to fight for himself like a dog…never, not even if they had democrat stamped on their heads.
If this is about class…most the blacks there are poor so they are screwed. If it’s about politics, they are democrats…so yes they are screwed again. What ever it is about, blacks will fill the blanks.
Which ones out of interest? No need to name them all.
Sorry, that is all I know. If I can track down my sis I will find out.
Most. When you mount continuing costs, you must act to stanch the flow of cash- or get out, which may cost face. Churchill was able to predict with some accuracy when Germany would have to act, based on the arms buildup program.
This gets to societal claims and costs. Guns and gangs in America, mostly the product of poverty, ignorance, lack of opportunity, and underemployment, ensure that in an emergency it will be difficult to ensure an effective evacuation, as those left behind encourage others to stay behind to protect property. The only way to have effective evacuations is via MARSHALL LAW, which requires occupation by a mobile, effective, and responsive National Guard! This is especially true when, in an emergency, the local police may flee to rescue their families, as happened in large numbers in New Orleans .
Sorry about the error, between workouts I simply don’t have the time to proof every detail…I did mean Mayor but let’s not get in to correcting everyone on everything when mayor Ray Nagin can only finger point. The feds did show up late but the poverty in NO was most of the problem.