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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jomama: [QB] I blame the last three admins for not dealing with the levee problem... But the previous 2 admins didnt have the backdrop of 9/11 either.... Im not placing blame due to the weather, or even prediction.. just the piss poor planning and response.. which IMO is very telling of the priorities of this admin... I blame this administration for being mired in "group-think".. and its been my opinion since watching the first term, that this adminstration, and Bush in particular, has a overwhelming disdain for "the govt" as a whole... His father.. I have oodles of respect for.. lifelong public servant.. regardless of our political differences... Jr... well.. shortsighted ingorant numbskull... They want to turn the govt into a corporation.. and while there may be lessons for the govt to learn from the private sector, they are not the same... and should not be treated as such... I've watched as this admin (I'm talking the admin.. not the GOP as a whole) has blindly tweaked every level of DOI and DOA.... for what... to benefit the few... elite corp interest... This tweaking of something they didnt understand (or care to) in the first place will have repercussions for generations.... all for the sake of short term profits for a few interests.... Now we're seeing what happens when the tweaked FEMA (see gutted) in the wake of 9/11... This in tern resulted in the departure of the previous head a FEMA, a very well respected man who had worked for both previous admins and was a key player in the quality of FEMA respons's prior to this event... Seems this last part has been a common trend with this admin... Someone who knows their job dares to disagree with the admin, or point out what they NOT considering, and in one way, shape, or form we loose their expertiece and just quality managment for lesser, inferior, appointees.... Total result of group think.. Not the first time its happend at the POTUS level..... See JFK and the Bay of Pigs debacle vs the Cuban Missle Crisis... This admin is a menace. [QUOTE]george bush today (sept 1, 2005) on good morning america. "I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees." http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=9754 as well as the fact that bush cut 7 percent of the budget from the army corps of engineers this year, 13 percent last year. this disaster as well as a san fransisco earthquake and a major terrorist attack in new york are the top 3 things our government was told to take action on. [/QUOTE]After reading this I immediately remembered that the bush administration line oft repeated by many of them in the wake of 9/11 was that "no one could have anticipated that terrorists would turn airplanes into missles by flying them into buildings" but in reality both the fbi and cia had indeed theorized about the possibility early in the clinton years. [QUOTE] "It appears that the money has been moved in the president's budget to handle homeland security and the war in Iraq, and I suppose that's the price we pay. Nobody locally is happy that the levees can't be finished, and we are doing everything we can to make the case that this is a security issue for us." -- Walter Maestri, emergency management chief for Jefferson Parish, Louisiana; New Orleans Times-Picayune, June 8, 2004. [/QUOTE] [QUOTE] "This is horrible, terrible and devastating," says Claude Strauser, who retired in January from the Army Corps of Engineers. "But everybody knew it was vulnerable." computer models showed that the levees and flood walls guarding the city would be overwhelmed by even a Category 3 hurricane they were designed to withstand. [/QUOTE]and [URL=http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/02/opinion/02krugman.html?ex=1126324800&en=73a1bb38aa83825e&ei=5070&emc=eta1]http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/02/opinion/02krugman.html?ex=1126324800&en=73a1bb38aa83825e&ei=5070&e mc=eta1[/URL] [QUOTE] For all the president’s statements ahead of the hurricane, the region seemed woefully unprepared for the flooding of New Orleans—a catastrophe that has long been predicted by experts and politicians alike. There seems to have been no contingency planning for a total evacuation of the city, including the final refuges of the city’s Superdome and its hospitals. There were no supplies of food and water ready offshore—on Navy ships for instance—in the event of such flooding, even though government officials knew there were thousands of people stranded inside the sweltering and powerless city. http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9148526/site/newsweek/page/2/ [/QUOTE] http://www.nola.com/washingaway/thebigone_1.html http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=9754 http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001051313 I believe and hope that this will be a catalyst for the majority of this country to stop the petty ideological powerstruggle and at least move slightly more toward pragmatic, realistic planning and problem solving... And by planning I mean FORCE the politicians to start looking beyond their next term... Flame away.... [/QB][/QUOTE]
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