First let me state this: President Bush does not have the best PR people in his administration. The President's public face, or lack there of, has lived up to all of the stereotypes this week...an idiot, a moron, etc.
But before you criticize the federal government's response to Katrina consider this photograph, which is of a flooded school bus lot in New Orleans, LA, and paragraph 5, page 13 of the Louisiana Disaster Plan, dated 01/2000: "The primary means of hurricane evacuation will be personal vehicles. School and municipal buses, government-owned vehicles and vehicles provided by volunteer agencies may be used to provide transportation for individuals who lack transportation and require assistance in evacuating." (Source: Drudge Report, 3 September 2005)
How many lives would have been saved if Mayor Ray Nagin (D) had followed through with the pre-Katrina mandatory evacuation and deployed the numerous buses in the city? I guess too many are busy playing the race card to consider this precious question...oh well......
mc
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very interesting!
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