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Originally Posted by Brad Isaac As a side note, what is everyone's thoughts on the response time of FEMA and government? The mayor having to plead for support? It's disturbing to say the least... |
I think it speaks volumes about the state of our federal government. In my opinion, their response to this disaster has exposed a criminal lack of leadership and accountability.
It angers me to see what's going on down there. The government can flub up with their little war game in the Middle East, but for us to have a refugee crisis in the United States is unforgivable.
For little kids to have to see dead, rotting, bloated bodies that are just lying in the street, or in the parking lot of the Superdome, well that's just fu**ing unacceptable.
For tens of thousands to go where they've been INSTRUCTED to go by their government, and then not have any WATER for days is NOT acceptable.
For the federal government to deploy some Navy ships, ON TUESDAY, is not acceptable. They KNEW this was coming, and they THOUGHT it was going to be worse than it actually was, so why weren't these ships, and floating hospitals deployed FRIDAY? Many have died, and many more WILL die as a result of this delay.
How many times must we see the damned incompetence before we get fed up?
How many times must the federal government FAIL to do the NUMBER ONE thing it was formed to do?
They didn't protect Americans on 9/11.
They didn't protect the lives of thousands in the South who are starving and dying.
They aren't protecting us from terrorists flooding over (or under) our own borders.
I feel like the Bobs on Office Space when they ask "What would you say. . . you do here?". I mean what ARE they doing? I'm not an anti-war zealot or anything, and in fact I'm about as far from liberal as one can get, but it's not acceptable that farking IRAQIS are more protected than Americans.
The only true heroes so far have been the media. CNN is covering this like nothing I've ever seen. Anderson Cooper is out there showing the rest of us how much the Ministry of Love is actually doing, which is nil. I never liked CNN before, but I think I might have to switch over from FNC, who insists on trying to cover this disaster from a political angle.
I could ramble on for hours, but you get the point. It's unacceptable to rape hard working citizens for 40-50%++ in TAXES, and then not take care of Americans in need.
We spent $13 BILLION damned dollars in HAITI, and the levee improvements that would have provented this mass death were voted down at a cost of $14 Billion.
