The people who run the city of N.O. have got to be the laziest, mouth-breathing, idiots to have ever risen to the level of their incompetence. Read this and see if you don't agree...
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - A mock evacuation that was supposed to be part of a two-day statewide hurricane preparedness drill was canceled after a misunderstanding about who had jurisdiction over a Federal Emergency Management Agency trailer park.
One would reasonably assume that after the abject, miserable failure that described the preparedness for, and response to Katrina at all levels of government, but especially local government, they would somehow manage to get their act together this hurricane season. It's basically a fire drill but on a larger scale. Why are there jurisdictional questions about getting people out of harms way? Oh, I forgot. It's New Orleans. There are people by the thousands who take no responsibility for their own safety and well-being or that of their families. And why should they take responsibility for their own safety? The government has been responsible for their housing, food, medical care, education, transportation, unemployment checks, and every other aspect of their miserable dependent lives.
Ray Nagin couldn't manage to get a single bus mobilized to get people out of his city before the hurricane, but he sure got them mobilized in time to get people back there to vote him back into office. Here is his first test as mayor...to successfully evacuate the city in a drill...and he blows it.
Even if he can't save their lives because of his bumbling incompetence, at least he'll get their unemployment checks, free housing, and food stamps to them on time...and that's all that really matters.
2 comments:
Who failed the drill...New Orleans or Baton Rouge? Either way, I'm appalled that the city of N.O. voted Nagin back in. He failed them miserably and then managed to convince them all that it was not in any way his fault. UNBELIEVABLE
I think the drill was state wide, however you are right. The power in Louisiana generally resides in Baton Rouge but Katrina hit N.O. and Baton Rouge accepted many of the refugees. I think it is incumbant upon the leadership of New Orleans to establish preparedness plans for this hurricane season and they seem to have yet again failed miserably.
My point is that while the leaders of New Orleans will continue to fail the citizens, it's the citizens of New Orleans who tragically continue to fail themselves.
It's cold to say, but sympathy will be hard to muster next time around.
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