Comments on: Second Verse, Same As The First

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:02:04 +0000

They are stalling to run out the clock.

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:44:04 +0000

Ummm… I think I may have mentioned what I thing of Chertoff once or twice… He makes people wish Brown was still in charge. LOL AT least Brown was merely incompetent. Chertoff is incompetent, an complete idiot, cares not one iota about anyone, and a completely loyal Bushit artist and supreme ass-kisser. LOL

So… what did anyone expect? *shrug*

One would think that given the evidence of the past 8 years, they would have realised by now, even if they are republican, or Bushmoron Worshipers, that this Government cares nothing for any of them.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 05:20:10 +0000

After Ivan I got my ice and water from the Bank of America and I could walk. FEMA required you to drive and every vehicle received “one ration”. We didn’t have gas available and they wanted every household in the county driving. I only needed ice, and I only needed it for my neighbors, one was not dealing well with the heat and another needed it to keep the baby formula from going bad when she made a batch in the morning. Neither one could go anywhere for fear of needing to drive in an emergency.

Yeah, Steve, I remember that web site and calling an 800 number crap. You had to call the 800 number and register before you visited the service center. It was days before they came to the realization that they were one of the few places in the whole damn county that had communications and power.

How many times do they do this before they figure out that anyone who can do what they want, probably doesn’t need what they provide.

It isn’t just Democratic areas, Steve, Bobby Jindal has been complaining about the Gustav response, which is just as screwed up.

They just don’t intend to provide service.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 04:25:54 +0000

FEMA kept advertising that you could apply for stuff on their web site, which is highly ironic in an area in which between 2 and 3 million households had no power immediately after the storm. To try to rectify that (apparently), FEMA had TV stations show maps for locating their PODs, similarly ironic in an area in which most people’s only source of media was battery-powered radios. Last and in some ways worst, FEMA brought one highly sought-after commodity, ice, but in quantities so small that they were frequently out of it. One of my neighbors was in danger of losing her whole supply of insulin because she could not find ice for it.

I don’t think it’s mere incompetency with this administration; they just don’t give a good damn what happens to certain populations. NOLA was often a Democratic-trending city; now its original population is scattered to the winds. The city of Houston (not the whole metro area, just the city) similarly tends Democratic; now it’s a mess. The storms are not Karl Rove’s doing, but you’ll never persuade me the Bushists’ non-response isn’t a political middle finger pointed at their perceived enemies.

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 03:42:34 +0000

after ivan, fema had central stations like this, but the red cross came through my neighborhood in a modified ice cream truck [music and all!] bringing us ice, water, and MREs.