Why wasn't the national busline commandered for use?

aion

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Sun Sep-04-05 05:02 PM
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Why wasn't the national busline commandered for use?

Edited on Sun Sep-04-05 05:25 PM by aion

Mike Malloy played a montage on Friday's show in which the mayor of New Orleans mentioned commandering the national bus service (ie. Greyhound). Can someone come up with a good reason why this was not done on day 1 or day 2 of the disaster? Or was Condi too busy watching her play to care?

If you would like to hear the montage from Mike's show, download Friday's show from http://www.whiterosesociety.org/Malloy.html and skip ahead to the 40 minute mark.

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starmaker

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Sun Sep-04-05 05:04 PM
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1. or casino charter buses

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applegrove

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Sun Sep-04-05 05:13 PM
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2. That is what the Mayor insisted upon when offered schoolbuses to

evacuate survivors. Apparently FEMA was busy contracting out stuff - and you know..profit motive would require school-buses.

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babylonsister

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Sun Sep-04-05 05:14 PM
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3. A bigger question is why weren't buses used to

evacuate people before Katrina hit? Why wasn't there a plan in effect to do this?

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aion

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Sun Sep-04-05 05:20 PM
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5. Even an idiot wouldn't have needed to plan that

Edited on Sun Sep-04-05 05:24 PM by aion

Once the magnitude of the situation was understood, Bush or Condi should have been on the phone with Greyhound immediately. Instead, Condi had a play to attend to, and Bush is "satisfied with the results in New Orleans."

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deadparrot

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Sun Sep-04-05 05:15 PM
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4. Didja hear? Apparently, it's not the NATIONAL government's problem...

just that of state and local officials. :eyes:

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aion

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Sun Sep-04-05 05:23 PM
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6. Protectection from All enemies

I guess that doesn't include protection from mother nature g�n gem�dde?

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