Daley 'shocked' at federal snub of offers to help

[philarq]

Daley 'shocked' at federal snub of offers to help

Tribune staff reports
Published September 2, 2005, 2:44 PM CDT

Frustration about the federal response to Hurricane Katrina has reached Chicago City Hall, as Mayor Richard Daley today noted a tepid response by federal officials to the city's offers of disaster aid.

The city is willing to send hundreds of personnel, including firefighters and police, and dozens of vehicles to assist on the storm-battered Gulf Coast, but so far the Federal Emergency Management Agency has requested only a single tank truck, Daley said.

"I was shocked," he said.

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I am a Brit living in the States, but I was shocked to learn of the refusals of foreign assistance --assistance from the Netherlands seems logical....but I was also shocked to learn that Chicago is now a foreign country....

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-050902daley,1,2011979.story?coll=chi-news-hed

[DoYouEverWonder]

1. The only reason for this behavior from FEMA and HS

is because they don't want to help the people they've trapped in New Orleans. They'd much rather them dead.

[Erika]

3. W's fix to SS and Medicare

Let them die.

[tk2kewl]

2. Same thing in New York

my group was asked for volunteers... I volunteered, but sill no word from FEMA on when/if we will be going.