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We heard you loud and clear Friday when you visited our devastated city and the Gulf Coast and said, "What is not working, we’re going to make it right."
Please forgive us if we wait to see proof of your promise before believing you. But we have good reason for our skepticism.
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I suggest you watch a little more TV. Massive numbers of people have been moved in the last two days.
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Despite the city’s multiple points of entry, our nation’s bureaucrats spent days after last week’s hurricane wringing their hands, lamenting the fact that they could neither rescue the city’s stranded victims nor bring them food, water and medical supplies.
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I seem to remember watching victims being plucked from the rooftops from the beginning. How long does it take to get that many people one at a time? They want to pretend that nothing was being done for days.
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Mayor Ray Nagin did the right thing Sunday when he allowed those with no other alternative to seek shelter from the storm inside the Louisiana Superdome. We still don’t know what the death toll is, but one thing is certain: Had the Superdome not been opened, the city’s death toll would have been higher. The toll may even have been exponentially higher.
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What did he do Saturday after Bush declared the emergency? Why didn't he bring supplies in then? Anyone who refuses to allow any blame of Nagin is just stupid.
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State Rep. Karen Carter was right Friday when she said the city didn’t have but two urgent needs: "Buses! And gas!" Every official at the Federal Emergency Management Agency should be fired, Director Michael Brown especially.
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I can go along with firing Brown. Though the people of New Orleans need to realize that they were not the only ones in the midst of disaster from Katrina. But, doesn't anyone wonder why the mayor didn't bring the school buses to higher ground or use them to get the people out before the storm?
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There were thousands of people at the Convention Center because the riverfront is high ground. The fact that so many people had reached there on foot is proof that rescue vehicles could have gotten there, too.
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Tell me about the rescue vehicles designed to move large numbers of people and be driven in high water.