Almost missed this to respond to...
On Oct 24, 2006, at 8:59 PM, jdiebremse wrote:
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jonathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I can't agree with you. Let me count the ways... no, I don't have that
kind of time.
I started listing the grand follies I could foresee even watching the
2000 campaign from Amsterdam, but the actual blooded tragedy list
out-does anything I conjured - especially the Katrina fiasco.
Oh, that's because the Katrina fiasco was the fault of:
A) A Republican President
B) A Democratic Governor of Louisiana
C) A Democratic Mayor of New Orleans
D) All of the Above
Good Grief!
JDG
The answer is "D" obviously, but it's in the mix that truth cuts the
wet mud from dried blood.
The storm hit was an event. The pre-loading {and lack} of plans and
preps were seriously hampered by the policies of this administration
from abstract thinking to executive codecs. These process and players
compounded the problems once the storm hit and remained unable to
perform the jobs they were ostensibly given. "How" the job gets done
is the Executive prerogative and now we have seen several whoppers from
this laugh-machine. This is where GwB & Co finally killed the hope
Americans still held out for their leadership and marks the domestic
downfall. This was a clear trust broken and obfuscations like the list
above have not changed public opinion on this topic, has it?
Bill of Particulars:
A} An irresponsible leadership intent on agendas that do not address
the safety of this citizenry and are arguably harmful and certainly
counter-effective.
FEMA did a great job stuffing money into Floridian hands when a
hurricane swept through right before elections the previous year - even
filling pockets outside the damage swath: Somehow, this administration
couldn't do this in Louisiana w/o a political axe to grind. Are you
certain Gore would have privatized the rescue & relief operations into
such an incompetent tithing-laden operation? Would you argue that
GwB's anointment of a rather vast menagerie of grade-C lackeys to run
everything from Iraq -to- Katrina reconstruction has had NOTHING to do
with the wretched state New Orleans still finds itself in?
Even after a concerted & conscious effort following global public
humiliation this executive office cannot perform at a reasonable level.
Weren't "we" sold the line about how the grown-ups were finally going
to run things? For a group that belittles theories of Evolution, this
Scrooge executive model embraces Social Darwinism whole-heartedly and
in defiance of the founding principles of this country - which I
believe Dickens fittingly pre-dated.
B} Why was New Orleans parish excluded from the original declaration of
emergency? Why did Rumsfeld take almost a week to release nearby
military personnel to assist in rescue - was he waiting for the museums
to be looted?
How do you watch the government satellite pre-planning teleconferences
where GwB is nodding and blathering about getting the {wackily
faith-based} Governor Blanco and regional cities plenty of supplies
ready before and after the expected strike - and not shake your head at
the cluster f*ck to follow? It still unfurls to this day.
C} Maybe you weren't aware the levee system is a Federal program that
the mayor and citizens have absolutely NO SAY in designing or funding
and those retaining walls the city does control all held for very good
structural reasons.
The flooded busses we hear so much about were hardly adequate and
relied on workers arriving to drive them off the flooding area for this
aspect to even work... with water rising everyone's efforts were
atomized locally. Addressing this expected social disintegration was
the part of the previous years' training exercises that was supposed to
be developed, but GwB defunded the final stages of the emergency plans
and crossed their fingers. Oops!
The current mayor is actually a Democrat in name only. He switched
from a lifetime Republican registration {he has been a broadcast
executive} to "D" in order to harness the local political machinery.
Politics in NOLA gives the old word byzantine a shiny new patina.
The federal role is paramount in the lead-up and aftermath to this very
day. The scale of damage demands it. Your apologia for their sins is
disturbing. I lived and loved that city and it sickens me in a mean
mad way when I think of how they have all been treated: there goes our
own futures the next time a major disaster strikes a region of this
country. "Grief" is the only commodity this bunch knows how to spread
outside their money-grubbing frat-boy glad-handshaking cabal of
circle-jerks. Can you point to accomplishments that prove otherwise?
What have they really done up to this point - at such great public
expense?
Face it, we've all been had, but you more than I because you fell for
their squirmy lies... shiny hook, hard bloody line, and tawdry sinker.
Remind us again why we should trust your assertions around politics?!?
- Jonathan "Former Resident Of Freret & Palmer Streets, Uptown, New
Orleans" Gibson -
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