Arthur Cordell wrote: > For a catastrophe that was predicted for 50 years there was just about no > disaster plan in place. Criminal. > > There will be plenty of blame to go around. e.g., why weren't the levees > better protected. why weren't the pumps equipped with emerg. power. why > weren't the fleet of New Orleans city buses pressed into service for those > "who had no cars or couldn't otherwise drive." etc. ... > In the private culture of the US people were told to evacuate. They could > have been assisted mightily by using some city owned buses. Take them > anywhere. Now many who could have been moved are dead or dying.
Why are you surprised? The events in New Orleans are a perfect illustration of the well-known Neo-Con policies: Externalization of costs, reckless societal Darwinism and myopic quarterly stock horizon. The privatizers rather let people die than using PUBLIC buses to evacuate them. Better dead than red, you know... (especially as it's the OTHERS who end up dead... the rich got away in time, as in the WTC towers) With a gov't like that, the governor was somehow right that the only thing left to do is to pray -- but they should pray for regime change. OTOH, there's little chance for such a prayer to be heard, given that that gov't has a direct phone line to god... Chris ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SpamWall: Mail to this addy is deleted unread unless it contains the keyword "igve". _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
