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Apparently money was available, including a 65% guaranteed match of funds for what the Levee Board spends, but that money wasn't even used.
They were apparently too busy giving out no-bid contracts and building Mardi Gras statues I suppose.
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Mayor Nagin pleads to have Greyhound Buses come pick up all of the stranded people.
He stated, "'m like, 'You have got to be kidding me.' This is a national disaster, get every doggone Greyhound bus line in the country and get their asses to New Orleans. This is a major, major, major deal."
Maybe they should have used those buses rather than simply let them flood? Perhaps evacuating people on school buses earlier is better than letting them be starved, dehydrated, murdered, or raped while at the Superdome or Convention Center?
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This article brings up very many valid points including the fact that St. Charles, St Bernard, Plaquemines, and Jefferson Parishes which are majority white have had very little help compared to Orleans Parish and they were all hit just as hard and some even harder.
I can tell you first hand that this is fact after talking with 4 of the friends I went to college with and their homes and still completely underwater to this day and it is barely even being discussed by the media.
Those 4 parishes are majority white, I guess Bush hates white people.
Wanna know why people weren't being rescued and helped? They had to secure the area before they could even go in to help people.
"New Orleans has one of the highest murder rates in the country. By mid-August of this year, 192 murders had been committed in New Orleans, "nearly 10 times the national average," reported the Associated Press. Gunfire is so common in New Orleans -- and criminals so fierce -- that when university researchers conducted an experiment last year in which they had cops fire 700 blank rounds in a neighborhood on a random afternoon "no one called to report the gunfire," reported AP."
Those figures are with a police force actively patrolling the streets. Imagine how much worse it was during a catastrophe like this one when there are not anywhere near enough cops to go around.
If you truly want to blame someone for all of the flooding, blame Congress from 1927 and the Army Corp of Engineers.
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So basically, as I have stated in so many earlier threads, this problem is alot deeper than most people realize.
If we hadn't tried to put the Mississippi River where we wanted to and simply let mother nature do her own thing, we wouldn't have had anywhere near as much flooding. The outer marshes and barrier islands which no longer exist because of man's intereference with the river is what would help to weaken a storm before it reached New Orleans.
If you want to blame someone environmentally blame the 1920's Congress and the Army Corp of Engineers who ruined Louisiana's coast and Florida's everglades by trying to play God. The eroding coast has a HUGE impact on the area even before hurricanes are considered. The seafood industry is a multi-billion dollar industry and if something isn't done about coastal erosion soon that business is going to take serious hits.
Greyhound buses should have been brought in so they could be shot at and stolen, but the local school buses should have been removing people before the storm hit rather than sticking them in the Superdome with no food and no medical supplies. I knew the storm was coming on Saturday morning. New Orleans probably knew before me which means they had 2 days to evacuate people rather than stick them in the dome.
The Army Corp of Engineers which Bush supposedly hasn't funded still hasn't even spent alot of funding that the government guaranteed it and is being audited constantly for corruption, poor business decisions, and poor business practices.
I've been compiling articles that I have read dealing with the problems and the aftermath. I thought I'd share some links and thoughts that you haven't considered yet.
Apparently money was available, including a 65% guaranteed match of funds for what the Levee Board spends, but that money wasn't even used.
They were apparently too busy giving out no-bid contracts and building Mardi Gras statues I suppose.
Link
Mayor Nagin pleads to have Greyhound Buses come pick up all of the stranded people.
He stated, "'m like, 'You have got to be kidding me.' This is a national disaster, get every doggone Greyhound bus line in the country and get their asses to New Orleans. This is a major, major, major deal."
Maybe they should have used those buses rather than simply let them flood? Perhaps evacuating people on school buses earlier is better than letting them be starved, dehydrated, murdered, or raped while at the Superdome or Convention Center?
Link
This article brings up very many valid points including the fact that St. Charles, St Bernard, Plaquemines, and Jefferson Parishes which are majority white have had very little help compared to Orleans Parish and they were all hit just as hard and some even harder.
I can tell you first hand that this is fact after talking with 4 of the friends I went to college with and their homes and still completely underwater to this day and it is barely even being discussed by the media.
Those 4 parishes are majority white, I guess Bush hates white people.
Wanna know why people weren't being rescued and helped? They had to secure the area before they could even go in to help people.
"New Orleans has one of the highest murder rates in the country. By mid-August of this year, 192 murders had been committed in New Orleans, "nearly 10 times the national average," reported the Associated Press. Gunfire is so common in New Orleans -- and criminals so fierce -- that when university researchers conducted an experiment last year in which they had cops fire 700 blank rounds in a neighborhood on a random afternoon "no one called to report the gunfire," reported AP."
Those figures are with a police force actively patrolling the streets. Imagine how much worse it was during a catastrophe like this one when there are not anywhere near enough cops to go around.
If you truly want to blame someone for all of the flooding, blame Congress from 1927 and the Army Corp of Engineers.
Link
Link
So basically, as I have stated in so many earlier threads, this problem is alot deeper than most people realize.
If we hadn't tried to put the Mississippi River where we wanted to and simply let mother nature do her own thing, we wouldn't have had anywhere near as much flooding. The outer marshes and barrier islands which no longer exist because of man's intereference with the river is what would help to weaken a storm before it reached New Orleans.
If you want to blame someone environmentally blame the 1920's Congress and the Army Corp of Engineers who ruined Louisiana's coast and Florida's everglades by trying to play God. The eroding coast has a HUGE impact on the area even before hurricanes are considered. The seafood industry is a multi-billion dollar industry and if something isn't done about coastal erosion soon that business is going to take serious hits.
Greyhound buses should have been brought in so they could be shot at and stolen, but the local school buses should have been removing people before the storm hit rather than sticking them in the Superdome with no food and no medical supplies. I knew the storm was coming on Saturday morning. New Orleans probably knew before me which means they had 2 days to evacuate people rather than stick them in the dome.
The Army Corp of Engineers which Bush supposedly hasn't funded still hasn't even spent alot of funding that the government guaranteed it and is being audited constantly for corruption, poor business decisions, and poor business practices.
I've been compiling articles that I have read dealing with the problems and the aftermath. I thought I'd share some links and thoughts that you haven't considered yet.
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