Subj : Re: Um...no comment?
To   : sn0w0wl
From : Finnigann
Date : Sat Sep 03 2005 05:05:00

-=> sn0w0wl wrote to Daemon <=-

 sn> Daemon wrote:
 >   Well, they didn't gut the funding for the mechanism that was designed to
 > correct the problem, pretty much bringing corrections of very recognizeable
 > and hugely (obviously) important deficiencies to a screaching halt.  *shrug*

 sn> And what's wrong with the State itself attempting to figure something
 sn> else out if he couldn't get the money from the feds....

 sn> besides..the residents were warned to evacuate...obviously there were
 sn> some that couldn't for certain reasons...but there were ones that were
 sn> quite able to leave that didn't...for whatever reason...if everyone
 sn> that could have left would have there would be alot less human tragedy
 sn> in the aftermath...

 sn> all this is neither here nor there...it's ridiculous and asinine to
 sn> blame *anyone* rep, dem, white, black, blue, green, or purple for a
 sn> *natural* disaster....they happen, they cause major damage and loss of
 sn> life but there is nothing *anyone* can do about it except pick up the
 sn> pieces and move on....


No single state can handle something like a huricane. That's what FEMA wsa
supposed to before.

But FEMA has been defunded and assigned additional tasks (after it's inclusion
into homeland security)



"If we can't respond faster than this to an event we saw coming across the Gulf
for days, then why do we think we're prepared to respond to a nuclear or
biological attack?" asked former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a Republican.

Says it all.

Our safety is not a priority with 'w'

.... Nuc...Nucl... Nucular... {psst what's it called, again?}
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