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Obligatory New Orleans Rant
2005-09-01 - 2:58 p.m.


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The suffering in New Orleans is alarming.


What is more alarming is the mismanagement and failure of foresight of our elected officials.


The National Guard should have already been in New Orleans.  You call for a mandatory evacutation, then don't provide the impetus, people will not move.  Its in their nature.


Failing that, they should have been mobilized and waiting outside the landfall zone of the hurricane.  There was ample warning.


I would have much rather paid for a mobilization of resources that never got tapped, rather than the bullshit that's going on right now.  Ships could have been en route to the gulf days ago.  Hospital ships.  Aircraft carriers, you name it.


Now the city sinks into chaos.  It is the second coming of Baghdad, with the very same miscues by the current administration.


Where is the outrage?  Why wasn't the neccessary resources in place in a timely fashion?


I had read many articles in the past five years with titles like 'New Orleans lives in the shadow of the fear of the next big hurricane'.  Five years.  And I've lived nowhere near the gulf region.  In five years they couldn't buy more dirt and cement for their levee's?  In five years a comprehensive disaster plan was not formulated for just this event?  Everything was post-hoc, wait-and-see.


Where was the federal government?  Where was the national guard?


Oh, wait.


I think I know where the federal government and where they made the national guard go.


In the meantime, a city seethes.  People suffer, and we see how quickly chaos can descend.


We are no more than 3 missed meals from revolution.  We are four missed meals away from anarchy.


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