On Sep 30, 8:24*am, wrote:
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 04:24:45 -0700 (PDT), wf3h
wrote:





On Sep 29, 11:47*pm, Jack wrote:

Within the United States and as delineated in the National Response
Plan, response and planning is first and foremost a local government
responsibility.

which, of course, is a non sequitur. *there's not a local govt in the
US that could handle a disaster like katrina. the feds, under bush,
ignored FEMA and appointed a horse lawyer to head the agency....they
didn't take it seriously

Any shine you may have had has quickly worn off... you've become
another insincere, disingenuous non-boating liberal shill in this NG.

fine. you let me know how your local govt would deal with a disaster
like katrina. go ahead...we'll wait

I think the point was that since protocol dictated that the federal
government, as Jack has presented it, was to defer to the local
governments in taking the lead in managing in the face of a natural
disaster, they did so, but encouraged the respective local governments
to appeal for federal assistance through pre-defined channels.
According to Jack's information, the local governments failed to do so
in an timely and sagacious manner. *In other words, a case can be made
that for the Bush administration, it was damned if you do and damned
if you don't - if you comprehended what Jack wrote.

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this went on for months. and no local govt can handle a hurricane.