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Originally Posted by Danik
The local government there didn't even bother to mobilize the citizens and provide public transportation to leave the city. The mayor is black, so I fail to see how this is some sort of conspiracy. FEMA didn't react fast enough, but the people (government) in New Orleans did not react at all.
Of course I wouldn't want to go into the inner city. I have to commute to Baltimore (murder capital of the USA) for work. You have people sitting around at the gas station begging for money and in some parts I would likely be mugged or killed. The problem with this statement is that just because it is like that does not mean it exists that way for no reason. Murdering people is obviously not a necessity for survival, and neither is the absurd amount of crack users in Baltimore.
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a couple of questions in response to this:
who would have driven the buses taking the many NO residents out of harm's way? trying to figure out who was available to do so and was not already committed to spending the remaining time before landfall looking after their own families
possibly more importantly, where would they have taken them? as i recall the motels were filled far inland ... and who would have absorbed that expense ... and what cities presently have contingency plans to handle all of the arrangements necessary to mobilize and fund such a massive evacuation?
the point i am trying to make is you imply that the NO community leaders screwed up by not busing the residents ... but how reasonable an effort was that to assume the city should have been prepared to undertake.
i am not defending most of the elected leaders, who were predominately democrats, as they are a sorry lot ... but one should not expect the unreasonable, even had competent people been at the helm
in stark contrast, being prepared for such contingencies is exactly FEMAs mission and that federal agency blew it. good job brownie