Originally posted by: Starbuck1975
My opinion is that it went exactly right. It was no accident that Fema failed. It was what Republicans want, the government out of the lives of losers and taxes returned to the rich.
I disagree with you on one point. There is no doubt that FEMA completely failed in its mandate...another bloated, bureaucratic government agency that lacks the flexibility and leadership to respond in an efficient and timely manner. However, the human element of the Katrina disaster became infinitely more complex given the failures of local government officials to execute simple evacuation plans...and a nanny state cultural dynamic that very much created an expectation that the government could simply rescue thousands of people after a major natural catastrophe.
Remember, the hurricane itself was very much manageable...the failure of the levees is what created the true crisis...a disaster scenario that numerous media outlets modeled and predicted well in advance of Katrina making landfall.
The U.S. is no longer capable of taking care of itself especially when pouring billions overseas for Oil profits with phoney wars.
The U.S. is perfectly capable of taking care of itself...some of its citizens, I am not so sure about.
You have to be brain dead to be a Republican today.
You have to be brain dead to be a Bush supporter perhaps...do not assume that all conservatives or Republicans subscribe to the NeoCon party line...of course, if the Democrats actually provided a viable alternative, we wouldn't be contending with a second Bush term.
Hate. Lies. Greed. The Republican way.
No my friend...the American way...and it has been that way for some time, since the first European settlers set foot in the New World.