“We Have Been Abandoned By Our Own Country.”
Those were the word of Jefferson Parish President Aaron Broussard as he was interviewed by Tim Russert on today’s Meet the Press. Very moving, a must see.
We had Wall Mart deliver 3 trailer trucks full of water, FEMA turned them back, they said we didn’t need them, this was a week ago.
Can you say criminal negligence?
They have been abandoned by their country’s leaders. Some of the citizens are trying to help. Dwight at the Dome blog talks about how there were so many volunteers in Houston that showed up to help the refugees (I’m used to thinking of the third world when I see that word, not anymore) some were turned away.
People from my hometown are helping out. The Vancouver’s Urban Search and Rescue Team is currently in New Orleans to helping to to assist in the search and rescue. They’re posting updates on their site. They had to wait a day to start because of gunfire.
What qualifies Mike Brown to run FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency? They’re the people who are supposed to be running the show in the Katrina disaster, but seem to be clueless and incompetent. Here’s a quote from Mike
I’ve had no reports of unrest, if the connotation of the word unrest means that people are beginning to riot or, you know, they’re banging on walls and screaming and hollering or burning tires or whatever. I’ve had no reports of that.
Really? Watch the news or read the paper Mike?
From 1991 until 2000, Brown earned about $100,000 a year as the chief rules enforcer of the Arabian horse association
Brown’s ticket to FEMA was Joe Allbaugh, President Bush’s 2000 campaign manager and an old friend of Brown’s in Oklahoma. When Bush ran for president in 2000, Brown was ending a rocky tenure at the horse association.
Brown told several association officials that if Bush were elected, he’d be in line for a good job. When Allbaugh, who managed Bush’s campaign, took over FEMA in 2001, he took Brown with him as general counsel.
He later took over as director.
So the person you may be trusting your life to if you live in the US and have a disaster in your area, is someone who has no background in emergency mangagement, who’s main qualification is that he’s friends with Dubya’s ex campaign manager. Don’t you feel safer knowing that?
There’s pork in every government, but you don’t put a hack in a job where tens of thousands of people’s lives may depend on that person being competent.
I’m phenomenally angry that people are suffering and dying needlessly AFTER the hurricane because of either massive federal government incompetence or deliberate neglect. The richest country in the world, the most powerful country in the world, the one with the “can do attitude” the one that’s so good at invading other countries and the logistics of war can’t seem to rescue their own citizens. They seem so impotent and powerless. Third world country’s take better care of their own citizens in the aftermath of such disasters. Maybe they need to send in the marines? They’re trained to deal with water. Or all they all in Iraq, fighting a war based on lies, dying to create a probable shiite islamic theocracy aligned with Iran?
If you want to help you might try donating to the Red Cross.
Or if you live in the US contact your congressman and senator and get them to demand to immediately fire this clueless, incompentent, political hack Mike Brown, who’s inadequacies, and stupidity is responsible for too many needless deaths and hire someone with a clue i.e., maybe hire someone from New York city’s emergency management team. More on his mistakes later, too many to count, I need to reduce it a bit so I don’t post 5 pages.
