clear> > It is also a fact that The National Response Plan makes it crystal
declared it> that the President and FEMA are responsible for pro-actively initiating > rescue and relief efforts in an emergency - once the president
REALLY> a national emergency, it was HIS responsibility to to take action. Not > stay on vacation and go shopping and play the guitar. > > The governor didn't do a good job, but Bush and his FEMA appointee
return> dropped the ball, and I wish for once "the buck stops here" would
ANYTHING.> and SOMEONE in the administration would take responsibility for
I have consulted the quatranes of Nostradomos and he predicts that it will be discovered that once FEMA was moved under the DHS, the FEMA budget was used to build out the DHS while career emergancy planners were replaced with political appointees. It will also be told that when faced with a Republican President coming to save the day a Democrat Governor said not on my turf, I will not let the Republicans pull a Democrats bacon out of the Fire and that while the feds did run a simulated disaster drill that used a force 5 hurrican hitting New Orleans for the problem the city of New Orleans did nothing to to attempt to apply the lessons learned even though the priactice drill pretty much predicted the after math that has every body playing this stupid finger pointing game. There is plenty of time to come back and deal with this. Right now there is something like 3/4 of a million people that need some serious help getting back on their feet. Thats job 1. And if you want to blame Bush, at least he took control out of Brown's hands and put a Vice Admiral from the Coast Guard in control. At least he's trying to be part of the soultion.> > erik (the other one, in the other LA)
Mark
Rick A17
Mark Sampson wrote:
3 minutes 4.367 seconds.
But I had to go thru 2 mules and a flock of sheep on the inside of a
mountain ledge road----800 ft. drop off.
Mark