FEMA director won't second guess why so many in NO did not evacuate!

[flpoljunkie]

There they go again! The f*cking head of FEMA, Michael Brown, blaming the people of New Orleans who did not have the means to get out, knowing full well how many people in New Orleans do not have the means to evacuate.

Blaming these folks for not evacuating--like they had a choice--sickening! This administration is totally without honor and integrity.

Haley Barbour blamed the people too, for not evacuating, but would not criticize the Bush Administration. The Governor of New Orleans said the same thing last night when pressed as to why these people were stranded in New Orleans without food, water, and sanitation.

[rfranklin]

1. Did they provide transportation for those people?

I can't quite recall any organized effort to provide transportation for everyone. Can you?

[Mass]

3. No they did not.

The media pointed that out last Sunday. They said the people who remained in the city were mainly people without cars, and that there were many in NO because so many people were so poor.

[flpoljunkie]

4. No, and the Superdome obviously was not prepared to feed and house folks

either--even though it was where they told everybody to go who were not able to evacuate the city.

[rocktivity]

6. Federal, state AND local government fell down on this

All of this should have been thought about and planned when Bush de-funded the levee-reinforcing project, if not sooner. I wonder how many buses they have going in and out of the Superdome. 25,000 people, forty something people per bus...

:headbang:

[blondeatlast]

14. Just one of the many things I would have prepared BEFORE

landfall.

I'm an effing library assistant and I figured that one out on my own...

[xray s]

2. He is a jackass

There are poor people all over this country that can't evacuate their homes. No cars, disablities, elderly people.

For this asshole Brown to make an ignorant statement like that just show the total incompetence of BushCo

[rocktivity]

5. Why do you think they media has been playing up the looting so much?

If they're "looters" rather than "poor people," it's easier to blame them--and not feel sorry for them if they end up dying.

rocknation

[flpoljunkie]

10. Send in the National Guard to chase down looters when folks are dying!

Way to go, Dubya! Instead of sending in the buses on Monday, send in the National Guard on Thursday night! Now the clueless FEMA Director Michael Brown saying it's like "urban warfare" with people "coming out of the woodwork."



A SWAT team drives past flood victims waiting at the Convention Center in New Orleans, Thursday, Sept. 1, 2005. Officials called for a mandatory evacuation of the city, but many resident remained in the city* and had to be rescued from flooded homes and hotels and remain in the city awaiting a way out. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

*like they had a choice? Get real!

[BronxBoy]

12. Damn!!!

That looks like a picture taken in Haiti or Greneda..

Hold on to your ass, my people

[OneTwentyoNine]

15. Suppose the guys in the swat vehicle have plenty to eat and drink??

I'd feel like a worthless piece of shit riding around with my gun pointed at people. Jesus...these people are dying right in front of you but I've been instructed to SHOOT them if they try and loot a store for food or water.

My god....

[Humor_In_Cuneiform]

7. Accountability isn't a word in this administration's working

vocabulary, unless it is applied to someone else.

:grr:

[vickie]

8. Much of this FEMA head's chat was a lot of coded CYA language

'defending' his agency's conduct. I'm happy to see that CNN has been really calling the Federal response on its abysmal performance.

Even Jack Cafferty (who is usually a Bush apologist) went off on what he termed the "emarassing, flat-footed, outrageous, etc...... response". Even Wolf (another Bush apologist) was taken aback at what Cafferty was saying.

[vickie]

9. Much of this FEMA head's chat was a lot of coded CYA language

'defending' his agency's conduct. I'm happy to see that CNN has been really calling the Federal response on its abysmal performance.

Even Jack Cafferty (who is usually a Bush apologist) went off on what he termed the "emarassing, flat-footed, outrageous, etc...... response". Even Wolf (another Bush apologist) was taken aback at what Cafferty was saying.

[Imagevision]

11. duh!, maybe the simply couldn't afford it? . Fema director is an idiot

http://downingstreetmemo.com/

[blondeatlast]

13. Fire his ass. Even I could have done more at this point.

Brown is a cravenly simpering twit sap coward.

Get him out.

[LisaL]

16. Maybe instead of guessing, they should have send buses

down there before the hurricane.
:sarcasm: