There once was a time this country would have pulled together

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

and gotten this evacuation job done. Cleanly, efficiently, and quickly.

Obviously, that time is long gone- the coastal interstates have suddenly been turned into parking lots full of sick, hungry, thirsty people, trying desperately to do the right thing- actually ORDERED out of the cities by faceless suits who claim to have it ALL under control.

The suits are liars and incompetent boobies.

Not only can they not account for the money already given to them for New Orleans (and surrounding areas) relief, but they've proven that they are unable to learn from history, even short term! They just do not get it. Those thousands of hot metal hulks parked en masse on the overworked highways are HUMAN BEINGS. And they're in trouble. The same trouble this entire nation seems to be in. The same trouble Iraq is in. The same trouble Gaza is in. The same trouble South Africa is in.

The same trouble the WORLD is in. All due to the gross incompetence of people who stand at the front of the crowd and yell "Follow me!" and then start running the in the exact wrong direction, stuffing their pockets with all the money being blindly flung at them by a grateful mass of unthinking sheep.

Perhaps it's time this empire fell. If we allow this charade to continue, we absolutely deserve whatever end comes about because of this Howdy Doody adventure.

Fire the suits. Arrest them. Prosecute them. Take their money, their homes, their lives. Make them pay for what they're doing. Make them suffer as those all around them are even now suffering.

Give them a shovel and make them bury the dead they will end up being directly responsible for.

It's time to put the grownups back in charge. If we don't do it now, it's never going to happen.

[YOY]

1. Spot on

I recall the conservatives crowing about the "grownups being in charge" when shrub took office.

If this is how 'grownups' act then call me a "Toys'R'Us Kid"

[hardrainfallin]

2. I get it. Shrub went to the wrong AA program ,

he was looking for Alcoholics Anonymous, but stumbled into Adults Anonymous by accident.

[MADem]

3. Yeah, give me the childish Clinton era, when FEMA had a qualified director

[Lisa]

4. let's not forget that this is the country which masterminded D-Day!

And built the Hoover Dam, and staged the massive anti-war protests of the Vietnam era ... it's not just the government and corporations which are capable of mobilizing large numbers of people!

Americans have a reputation for being able to do things on a large scale -- and figuring out creative ways to get around the fact that not everyone is in the know, or committed. As a foreign observer, I can say that one reason why other countries are startled by what happened is because the sloppiness seems to contradict something we'd taken for granted in the US.

It's kind of like visiting Germany and having the planes and trains not only be late, but break down (!) -- and nobody offer any explanation or alterative.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

6. Exactly.

It's like an internal drive shaft has snapped, and nobody has realized that the machine is now tearing itself apart from the inside as the mechanism jams and starts shattering.

People in this country have flat-out forgotten how to work in a greater spirit of cooperation as needed. (And I don't exempt myself- I'm sure there's something more I could do, if only I could figure out what it is...)

[The Backlash Cometh]

5. Yep. The Republicans harolded in the new era of each man for himself.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

7. self-important kick

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