Workplace email blaming local NO officials, along with my reply.

(My reply is first)

"The disaster in New Orleans is what you get after decades of corrupt (democrat) government going all the way back to Huey Long.

Funds for disaster protection and relief have been flowing into this city for decades, and where has it gone, but into the pockets of the politicos and their friends.

Decades of socialist government in New Orleans has sapped all self reliance from the community, and made them dependent upon government for every little thing."


Haha so heres the "real" chain of responsiblity...


1. The Corrupt Democrat New Orleans Mayor
2. The Corrupt Democrat New Orleans director of Homeland Security
3. The Corrupt Democrat Governor
4. Clinton (because Clinton always get blamed)
5. The voters of LA for electing said corrupt Democrats.
6. US Senate Democrats for voting for the budget put forth by Bush.
7. New Orleans for existing in the first place
8. Liberal Pundits trashing FEMA's performance, bringing down their morale.
9. Conservative Pundits trashing FEMA's performance, bringing down their morale.
10. The Director of FEMA
11. The Director of Homeland Security
12. White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan
13. Some random Cabinet level lackey to take some more of the heat before it gets to Bush.
14. President Bush

This of course does not take into account the following.

1. Bush downgrading FEMA into a sub-cabinet level position underneath Homeland Security.
2. Bush appointing old college buddies with NO experience in disaster management to be in charge of FEMA. (One of which was fired from his old job judging horses.)
3. Bush sending 40% of the LA National Guard to Iraq.
4. Bush sending a large portion of LA National Guard equipment such as high water vehicles and generators to Iraq.
5. Bush cutting taxes while spending $5 Billion a month on a war, causing cut corners such as sayyyyyyy LEVEE FUNDING?
6. The Current Administration's ability to usurp states rights when it comes to very imporant issues such as Terri Schiavo. (I guess this hurricane thing wasn't as important as a brain dead woman)
7. The USS Battan following right behind the hurricane waiting for orders to move in after the disaster occured, but never getting them.
8. Bush too busy shilling his medicare program to senior citizens on Monday, and comparing himself to FDR on tuesaday, to be bothered with whats going on in LA.
9. The lack of blame on the local government of Mississippi who is suffering also due to FEMA's poor response, why is that? OH WAIT IT'S BECAUSE THEY ARE REPUBLICANS!


-----Original Message-----
From: XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 3:44 PM
To: XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Subject: FW: Additional comments on NO Disaster preparedness



h ere's your daily does of the Right....hahaha

Please read all before forwarding.

Read this, and then determine if you think "Bush" is as much at fault as the media claims!!!!

Additional comments on NO Disaster preparedness

Forwarded from a Cook County PD friend in Chicago....

In case you aren't familiar with how our government is SUPPOSED to work:

The chain of responsiblity for the protection of the citizens in New
Orleans is:

1. The Mayor
2. The New Orleans director of Homeland Security (a political appointee of the Governor who reports to the Governor)
3. The Governor
4. The Head of Homeland Security
5. The President

What did each do?

1. The mayor, with 5 days advance, waited until 2 days before he announced a mandatory evacuation (at the behest of the President). The he failed to provide transportation for those without transport even though he had hundreds of buses at his disposal.

2. The New Orleans director of Homeland Security failed to have any plan for a contingency that has been talked about for 50 years. Then he blames the Feds for not doing what he should have done. (So much for political appointees)

3. The Governor, despite a declaration of disaster by the President 2 DAYS BEFORE the storm hit, failed to take advantage of the offer of Federal troops and aid. Until 2 DAYS AFTER the storm hit.

4. The Director of Homeland Security positioned assets in the area to be ready when the Governor called for them.

5. The President urged a mandatory evacuation, and even declared a disaster State of Emergency, freeing up millions of dollars of federal assistance, should the Governor decide to use it. Oh and by the way, the levees that broke were the responsibility of the local landowners and the local levee board to maintain, NOT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.

The disaster in New Orleans is what you get after decades of corrupt (democrat) government going all the way back to Huey Long.

Funds for disaster protection and relief have been flowing into this city for decades, and where has it gone, but into the pockets of the politicos and their friends.

Decades of socialist government in New Orleans has sapped all self reliance from the community, and made them dependent upon government for every little thing.

Political correctness and a lack of will to fight crime have created the single most corrupt police force in the country, and has permitted gang violence to flourish.

The sad thing is that there are many poor folks who have suffered and died needlessly because those that they voted into office failed them.

For those who missed item 5 (where the President's level of accountability is discussed), it is made more clear in a New Orleans Times-Picayune article dated August 28:

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - In the face of a catastrophic Hurricane Katrina, a mandatory evacuation was ordered Sunday for New Orleans by Mayor Ray Nagin.

Acknowledging that large numbers of people, many of them stranded tourists, would be unable to leave, the city set up 10 places of last resort for people to go, including the Superdome.

The mayor called the order unprecedented and said anyone who could leave the city should. He exempted hotels from the evacuation order because airlines had already cancelled all flights.

Gov. Kathleen Blanco, standing beside the mayor at a news conference, said President Bush called and personally appealed for a mandatory evacuation for the low-lying city, which is prone to flooding. (emphasis mine)

The ball was placed in Mayor Nagin's court to carry out the evacuation order. With a 5-day heads-up, he had the authority to use any and all services to evacuate all residents from the city, as documented in a city emergency preparedness plan. By waiting until the last minute, and failing to make full use of resources available within city limits, Nagin and his administration f**ked up.

Mayor Nagin and his emergency sidekick Terry Ebbert have displayed lethal, mind boggling incompetence before, during and after Katrina.

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As for Mayor Nagin, he and his profile in pathetic leadership police chief should resign as well. That city's government is incompetent from one end to the other. The people of New Orleans deserve better than this crowd of clowns is capable of giving them.

If you're keeping track, these boobs let 569 buses that could have carried 33,350 people out of New Orleans-in one trip-get ruined in the floods. Whatever plan these guys had, it was a dud. Or it probably would have been if they'd bothered to follow it.

As for all the race-baiting rhetoric and Bush-bashing coming from prominent blacks on the left, don't expect Ray Nagin to be called out on the carpet for falling short. You want to know why? Here's why:

It's more convenient to blame a white president for what went wrong than to hold a black mayor and his administration accountable for gross negligence and failing to fully carry out an established emergency preparedness plan.

To hold Nagin and his administration accountable for dropping the ball amounts to letting loose the shouts and cries of "Racism!". It's sad, it's wrong, but it's standard operating procedure for the media and left-wing black leadership.

Mark my words: you will not hear a word of criticism from Jesse Jackson Sr., Randall Robinson, the Congressional Black Caucus, the NAACP, or Kanye West being directed toward Clarence Ray Nagin Jr. Why? Because he is just another black politician instead of a responsible elected official who happens to be black. In the mindset of more-blacker-than-thou blacks, black politicians who are on their side can do no wrong.