[W126 Coupe] [Fwd: Fwd: This about summs it up.]

[David Fatovic]

It must be horrible to be so far to the left that your
common sense has no place in your thinking.

David

--- Paul Samarin <pauls at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Where'd you get all that?  B/4 Katrina, their
> website touted them as 
> the lead agency for national disasters. All that's
> changed now, of 
> course.
> 
> I note you didn't get around to answering the second
> question:
> 
> What was the President doing?  Was he just waiting
> by the phone?  Why'd 
> he leave Crawford?  Oh sure, I know he snuck out of
> town under the 
> cover of Katrina so he wouldn't have to face
> headlines that read:  
> "Bush Refuses to Meet with Cindy Sheehan and Returns
> to Washington", 
> but what is the party line reason for his return? 
> Does he have a 
> better TV in DC to watch New Orleans fill up with
> water while he does 
> nothing?
> 
> On Sep 12, 2005, at 6:54 PM, Dick Spellman wrote:
> 
> > Hi Paul:
> >
> > Let's start with the following:
> >
> > FEMA has no authority to do anything until they
> are asked and directed 
> > by
> > local government.
> 
> Directed by local government?  The Governor of LA
> asked and Bush sent 
> an agreement for her to sign ceding all authority to
> the Feds.  That 
> doesn't sound like the locals are directing
> anything.  The Gov refused 
> to surrender absolute authority to Bush and Brownie.
>  (I sure hope we 
> get to see that proposed agreement someday.)
> 
> Look, this is all about money, power and influence. 
> The Bush Admin 
> refused to provide the funds the shore-up the levees
> because they 
> didn't want the local Democrats doling out the
> patronage; they wanted 
> to dole it out where they wanted to dole it out: 
> Translation:  Energy 
> Bill Pork Special
> 
> Watch what happens next:  the Party Line will be
> that the locals cannot 
> handle the rebuilding of N.O., so *now* the Feds
> will try to step to 
> the front and take over.  *Their* cronies will get
> the patronage.
> 
> Meanwhile, as just one example of why we need a
> FEMA--Federal Emergency 
> Management Agency--to take the lead (as they said
> they would, as they'd 
> promised to do, as the President at least implied
> that he would when he 
> flew back to DC) was the incident where folks tried
> to walk out of N.O. 
> by crossing a bridge over the Mississippi.  The
> local cops on the other 
> side forced them back at gunpoint.  The Police Chief
> over there said, 
> essentially, "We aren't gonna let those looters into
> our town."  Now, 
> that's a very harsh position, but taken from his
> point of view, he was 
> protecting his evacuated city.  The question of
> who's in charge is 
> *always* a problem in a major event.
> 
> That's why we're supposed to have a Federal
> Response.  We're going to 
> learn about many, many instances of "the left hand
> not knowing what the 
> right hand was doing."   One bureaucrat telling
> another to do the wrong 
> thing or not to do the right thing...b/c in a big
> event things get 
> confused.  You need one guy at the top to be in
> charge--when that guy 
> is an idiot, you get chaos.
> 
> So, tell me why President Vacation returned to DC. 
> BTW, I didn't hear 
> him say, "The Gov hasn't called and asked for help,
> so I'm gonna finish 
> this round of golf."
> 
> Paul
> 
> >
> > They will provide...
> > To individuals:
> > Provide temporary FREE housing
> > Provide short term funds 'capped' and FREE
> >
> > To local government:
> > Provide additional personnel to beef up existing
> security, fire and 
> > rescue
> > personnel
> > Provide restoration resources (men, equipment and
> materials) to restore
> > municipal power, water, and basic services
> > Provide grants to local and state counties to
> rebuild local government
> > Provide grants to rebuild the school systems
> >
> > Local emergency planning and communications is
> provided by the local
> > authority.
> >
> > Dick
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