[TheForge] Katrina (OT)

[Demon Buddha]

Gladish Family wrote:
> Demon Buddha wrote:
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>> Gladish Family wrote:
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>>> And why is FEMA not able to at least follow through on its 
>>> commitments, whether or not we agree on what it should be doing?
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>>     Because they made promises that cannot be reasonably kept.
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> Actually, you're off base with that, Andy, and I suspect you didn't read 
> past the first line of my post.

	I read it.  I stand by what I said.  Just what orifice do you think 
they are going to pull out a $100+B to rebuild most of the city of NO? 
We're too busy bankrupting ourselves in Iraq; I don't think we have the 
money to help NO to the degree promised.  That $100+B doesn't include 
the construction of a levy to withstand the next storm.

	Let's assume the taxpayers eat the bill, and they probably will.  What 
if, oh say... in two years or three, another storm like Katrina hits and 
away goes NO a second time?  Just how eager do you think the taxpayer is 
going to be to assume the role of sissyphus?

> FEMA does what it's told, by you, me, state and local authorities, and 
> congress.

	I don't tell them anything.  Were I to, I would order them them into 
dissolution and they would ignore me.

> I'm not addressing our expectations or whether they're reasonable.

	Neither was I.  FEMA very quickly promised things that anyone with half 
a functioning brain cell would have taken some reserve with.
Perhaps worse yet, the numb-nut in charge told the world that FEMA knew 
nothing of the damages until three to four days after the fact.  Who's 
pulling whose leg here?  Are the imbeciles?  Liars?  Imbeciles and liars?

> I'm giving you a little window on what happens when you on one hand 
> expect an agency to walk on water to save you and on the other hand 
> blindfold, bind and gag it and send it off in the wrong direction.

	Don't speak for me.  As far as I'm concerned, FEMA should be 
eliminated. I see no value added, and I'm certianly smart enough not to 
expect anything from them, except perhaps waste, lies, and trouble.