On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 14:27:39 GMT, Don White wrote:

PocoLoco wrote:




The feds are doing a lot of work. But, the press is going to continue eating
them alive. Today's Washington Post is replete with anecdotal accounts of the
feds inaction.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...referrer=email

One of the better one's is:

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Mary Joseph, 63, a custodian from Violet, La., in a new apartment in Northland
Woods off Beltway 8, is 17 miles from downtown: "We spend $30 for gas every few
days, and we don't know where we are going."
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Of course, this is Bush's fault, because this lady, and those with her, cannot
read a map.

This is my favorite:

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In Mississippi, people waiting for promised housing in the form of mobile homes
or trailers found themselves in a Catch-22 situation: Even as local officials
said they were waiting for FEMA to provide the shelters, officials at the
federal agency said they were waiting for local officials to provide the right
locations.
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And, of course, this is Bush's fault because he should just take a chunk of land
with no facilities and dump the shelter's there.

The absolute best was Tim Russert this morning who was repeating that FEMA
should have prepositioned all these shelters and supplies.

Imagine the bureaucracy and resources we could pay for if we had all these huge
storage sites within a hundred miles of any place in the USA that 'could'
experience a natural/man-made disaster!


What we have to do is get some of the old retired know-it-alls from the
Army to come in and setup facilities. If they can arrange to camp tens
of thousands of troops in a foreign land...why not the same amount of
displaced citizens right in America? It should be easier, because with
no one shooting at them the old fart officers could actually get close
to the action instead of hiding miles away.

Can you imagine the uproar if a few thousand folks were housed for a couple
weeks in an un-airconditioned 'tent city'? The libs would be showing closeups of
sweat and yelling at the mistreatment of fellow human beings.

Of course, that's just normal in the military.
--
John H

"All decisions are the result of binary thinking."