So there is a thread asking where the other countries are as far as hurricane support. Other countries? Where the hell were we?
Finally today, after 4 days of reeeeeally bad conditions, federal help in the form of Nat’l guard convoys with food and water start flowing in. Areas have literally be reduced the status of third world countries and it took 4 days. People really are dying in the streets. Does this administration plan anything at all? How many days were meteorologists saying one of the biggest storms of all time is coming? Logic would tell you that you’d want to have responders staged and ready to go. OK so that wasn’t done. People asked today “what took you so long?” The answer was something like “oh its hard to get in here.” Well the media hasn’t seemed to have any trouble getting in and they dont have amphibious assualt vehicles or huge trucks with a few feet of ground clearance. Were some of the media there before the storm? Sure. Many more crews, photojournalists and reporters came after the storm hit. There is also the fact that a lot of our Nat’l Guard troops/equipment are in another country at the moment. Did that slow down the response? I dont know, but Im sure it didn’t help.
To add insult to serious injury, Bush decides to do a photo op tour of the area today. Of course he miraculously visits one of the few areas where food/water is being handed out. Obviously he can’t visit the bad areas because it would be a huge security risk. Most of the people in the bad areas would probably want to attack him due to the lack of response. Instead of doing the traditional politician tour of the disaster area, why not actually work to get things moving. He doesn’t need to go down there and get on the cameras with local officials telling you what they need. He knows what they need. Those local officials would much rather see his actions than see him.
There is so much wrong with the response to this hurricane but the action, or lack of, from the federal gov’t has been simply shameful. This is the “christian-based” administration. Yet where is the christianity? All that loving thy neighbor stuff? Or maybe love thy neighbor once the media coverage gets bad enough? Once the local officials literally scream at you for help? Once the people are so desperate to survive they rove in armed mobs looking for food and water. People on the ground have compared it to conditions in Haiti and the middle east. Mind you this is happening in one of the larger cities in the U.S.A. The biggest super power in the world. And we appear helpless.
Four days passed and the help finally started rolling in. You have to wonder how many people died in those four days waiting for help. I never thought I’d long for the days of Sept 11 when Bush only sat on his ass for seven minutes.
