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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Crack_Dealer: [QB] I guess my point is more to do with FEMA than anything else. Still, this week they were not allowing in aid because "contracts were not signed". I just find it funny that this whole thing is partisan. Lives were lost, this country is extremely vulnerable right now to another attack (terrorists this time), they just watched are country have no ability to protect itself, hurricane season is not even over yet, and we want to wait months or years to figure what went wrong. Well I for one am glad I don't live in a zone where a natural disater could strike, because I have no faith in our government, at any level to provide for my safety, and I guess I will have to wait months or years for a "commission" to figure it out. Something needs to be done quickly to get the "major problems" dealt with. That is responding to a disaster. We have years to place blame. Here are a couple of excerpts, from FOX NEWS, PLEASE READ FULL ARTICLE TO GET A BETTER UNDERSTANDING. By Wednesday of last week, the Hyatt company had sent food and supplies from its Atlanta and Houston hotels to its hotel in New Orleans. The New Orleans Hyatt is less than half a mile from the convention center, an area of the city local and federal government officials said was inaccessible. Oil companies had sent crews in to begin repairs of rigs and refineries on Monday. Television reporters, news crews, even Harry Connick, Jr. managed to navigate through a city the government said was too perilous for relief efforts. The New Orleans Times-Picayune noted that by Thursday, WalMart had delivered thirteen trucks of supplies while government bureaucrats were still ringing their hands. By the time the federal government finally marched into New Orleans, the Red Cross had sheltered over 130,000 people, and delivered more than 2.5 million meals. By the time military brigades began rescuing people from rooftops, ordinary citizens had saved thousands with private boats. While government bureaucrats dawdled, politicians covered their rumps, and partisans played the blame game, civil society — private entities — got to the business of helping people. What's worse, in some cases, government prevented the private dissemination of aid. Wal-Mart had three water trucks in New Orleans almost immediately after the hurricane hit. FEMA turned them away. The Red Cross reported on its website that federal and local officials had barred the organization from actually entering New Orleans. Same with the Salvation Army. One doctor told the Associated Press, "There are entire hospitals that are contacting me, saying, 'We need to take on patients,' but they can't get through the bureaucracy. The crime of this story is, you've got millions of dollars in assets and it's not deployed. We mount a better response in a Third World country." [URL=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,168732,00.html]web page[/URL] And one more: In Arkansas, state officials were first told to expect 300 evacuees. Nobody came. Then the state was told to prepare 4,000 meals for a fleet of buses. No buses arrived. Suddenly, in the wee hours of Sunday, more than 9,000 refugees showed up at a National Guard post. “It rained people on us,” said Gov. Mike Huckabee, a Republican. In West Virginia, Gov. Joe Manchin dispatched several planes to the South to ferry refugees to his state. Most of the aircraft sat empty until he ordered them back home in frustration. “The waste that goes on because of a lack of coordination ... ,” he said. Too angry to finish that sentence, Manchin spit out a new one: “To bring five planes back empty is a crying shame.” In New Mexico, Gov. Bill Richardson said he authorized National Guard troops to leave for New Orleans early last week, but paperwork delayed their departure for days. [URL=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9244376/]web page[/URL] Last One: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,168368,00.html [/QB][/QUOTE]
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