[SpamCop-Social] Re: Editorial pleads for New Orleans

[Bcs1]

"Frog Prince" <devnull at spamcop.net> wrote in message 
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> "Bcs1"
> | >
> | > As previous pointed out
> | >
> | <more snippage>
> |  we can go round and round on those points all day, and neither one of 
> us
> is
> | going to change our mind
> | so again i'll say "yes the government didn't do as well as they could
> have"
> | (timeframes not withstanding), but NO it was not all the govnmnt's fault
>
> OK if we accept that NOLA was totally not the government's fault how much
> responsibility did the mayor of NOLA have for Mississippi and Alabama? 
> FEMA
> had no presence in that area for much of the week and little right now. 
> The
> military did get there but again days late.
>
> 'It's not my fault mantra' might fly in one area but not three especially
> when the water went down almost immediately, even before the storm passed 
> in
> the second two.
>
> Now from previous experience in the same area (back to the late 40's) 
> which
> included responses to the most recent big storms to hit these exact same
> area the government was in within 24 hours.
>
> Anyone who really believes the party line on this must have found deep 
> deep
> discounts on damp yellow socks.
>
>
 my thoughts on it have nothing to do with the party line...just my thoughts 
about the situation as a whole, and as far as the allocation of help and 
such, I would think that the majority of that burden would have at first 
been on Mr. Brown... that's no excuse, but to sit here and totally absolve 
the local/state govnment, is a bit more than I'm willing to buy.

 the other states have been getting some relief tho, not near as fast or in 
as much quantity as in NOLA, and I'll give ya that too, but the biggest 
point being discussed here was NOLA, and I hate to think that once a point 
has been made that stands on it's own, that we are going to now ruralize the 
thing in order to keep bashing the govnment.
it's already been stated that the response wasn't what it should have been, 
so let's stop trying to make out like the slow response was intentional 
shall we, and let both sides agree that "there were some failings" "ON BOTH 
SIDES", end of story....
and now that that's settled, let's see what we can do to FIX the problem.

I mean is that SO HARD to do?