Subj : Re: Um...no comment?
To   : richardw
From : Angus McLeod
Date : Tue Sep 06 2005 22:49:00

  Re: Re: Um...no comment?
  By: richardw to Daemon on Tue Sep 06 2005 17:31:00

 >  >   Why is it that it NEVER seems to be "the right time" to criticize the
 >  > government anymore?

 > It is the right time now.  But it's not the federal government that is to
 > blame.

For what?

There are plenty of wrongs, and if you want to apportion blame, there is 
plenty to go around.  Federal, State, and local government must -- if they 
are honest -- accept some blame.  Obviously, not for the same thing.

To say that it was a good idea to cut disaster-preparedness funding by 
half (after *trying* to cut it by two-thirds) is not going to hold water.  
The federal government is culpable for reducing funding for the defences 
and so to some degree, making the disaster worse than it might have been.

The state government can't be held blameless either.  What is the point of 
having a state-of-the-art disaster plan if you stick it up your ass and 
sit on it, instead of implementing it at the first possible opportunity?

And the local government has some answers to give, too.  What sort of 
police force have you got, when your police officers are the first to 
engage in looting?

Mind you, the citizens really have no grounds for complaint.  Sitting 
around on their arses, waiting for someone to come and hook up the 
electricity, so they can enjoy their newly-looted widescreen TV's?  They 
should have sent in some helis and chain-gunned them in job lots of a 
thousand a time.

But worse of all is those who will try to dodge the responsibility for 
their own failings by trying to make out that the failings of the OTHERS 
are the only failings that existed.


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