Indeed.
Why did the Democrat Mayor of New Orleans, Ray Nagin, fail to follow the disaster plan and arrange for the municipal and school busses at his disposal when he first insbreastuted the voluntary evacuation 2 days before the levee broke? (Psst. He's black...) They were supposed to go into the poor areas and evacuate anyone without transportation. He failed to even to put out an alert to bus drivers. Thus tens of thousands who wanted to leave but did not have transportation (who were identified and anticipated by the disaster plan) were left to suffer and die in NO.
Why did the Democrat Governor of Louisiana, Kathleen Blanco, fail to update the Louisiana disaster plan following 9-11, hurricane Ivan, and the disasterous results of the evaluation of preparedness a year ago?
Why did the Louisiana Homeland Security Department, under the Democratic governor, refuse Red Cross and Salvation Army convoys of food, water and supplies to the Superdome because they did not want to make people too comfortable?
Why did the Democrat governor not position more than 300 National Guard troops at the Superdome to maintain order?
Why did the Democrat governor divert federal resources slated for levee reinforcement to working on the commercial peers and gambling boats?
Why did the Democrat governor not request specific aid from the federal government in the days following the disaster, and why has she *still* refused to turn over control of the National Guard and state agencies to federal control?
Why did the Democrat police chief of Gretna shut down the bridge which was the main intact avenue out of NO to the west, trapping people inside the city?
The race debate *should* be reframed. Isn't it amazing how whites have donated so much to buttist the poor blacks and elderly affected by Katrina? How whitebread states like Utah have opened their arms to the poor blacks that have been given shelter there? How people of all races risked their lives and limbs rescuing the poor, the black, the elederly, without a thought to who or what they were? Isn't this a complete debunking of the race baiting and professional racists like Jesse Jackson who claim that whites don't care about blacks?
Isn't it instructive how a welfare state, perfected in NO, leaves those caught in its seductive grip (don't work! don't better yourself! the gummint will take care of you!) defenseless against what nature brings? Isn't this the best example of how people need to improve their lives and be prepared to take care of themselves and their family rather than letting the gummint do so?
Thanks for opening up this topic, Deep One!
Walk into the punch again, please Pig
