DaveE
The golfer fka ST Champ
- Aug 31, 2004
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"Even Dubya has said the relief effort hasn't moved as quickly as it should have done. So I'm really not sure how you can say people are getting there as fast as they can."
The only reason I say that is because I can't imagine what would motivate them to do anything else. It's one thing to get through with a pickup truck and another to there with a ship or tractor trailers.
The other factor is that anytime the govt. is in charge it's going to take longer. I completely agree that help's not getting there as fast as it should, but I don't think it helps for the media to imply that the people involved don't care or that they are not trying. This is unchartered territory and many lessons will be learned about preparedness and dealing with disastors.
One of the lessons that should be learned is that cities should never be built below sea level. But the biggest lesson to learn here might be to not leave the poorest people behing in an evacuation. How many lives and millions of dollars would have been saved if the City of NO and the state LA would have bused the people out sooner.
But since that wasn't even attempted it's now easy to blame the Fed. govt. for not getting there fast enough to fix things.
The only reason I say that is because I can't imagine what would motivate them to do anything else. It's one thing to get through with a pickup truck and another to there with a ship or tractor trailers.
The other factor is that anytime the govt. is in charge it's going to take longer. I completely agree that help's not getting there as fast as it should, but I don't think it helps for the media to imply that the people involved don't care or that they are not trying. This is unchartered territory and many lessons will be learned about preparedness and dealing with disastors.
One of the lessons that should be learned is that cities should never be built below sea level. But the biggest lesson to learn here might be to not leave the poorest people behing in an evacuation. How many lives and millions of dollars would have been saved if the City of NO and the state LA would have bused the people out sooner.
But since that wasn't even attempted it's now easy to blame the Fed. govt. for not getting there fast enough to fix things.