From: "Robert Comer" 

That sure explains the busses Gary -- it wasn't the mayor that didn't do his job...

- Bob Comer


"John Cuccia"  wrote in message
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> Blanco says that FEMA would not allow school buses to be used for
> evacuation, because they lacked A/C.
>
> http://2theadvocate.com/stories/091805/new_blanco001.shtml
> Hours after the hurricane hit Aug. 29, the Federal Emergency
> Management Agency announced a plan to send 500 commercial buses into
> New Orleans to rescue thousands of people left stranded on highways,
> overpasses and in shelters, hospitals and homes.
>
> On the day of the storm, or perhaps the day after, FEMA turned down
> the state's suggestion to use school buses because they are not air
> conditioned, Blanco said Friday in an interview.
>
> Even after levees broke and residents were crowding the Louisiana
> Superdome, then-FEMA Director Mike Brown was bent on using his own
> buses to evacuate New Orleans, Blanco said.
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>
>
>
> I think that all  the empty promises made by FEMA during the Hurricane
> Pam exercise (and during the actual Katrina situation) explain why
> state and local officials thought the Feds were going to provide
> immediate relief, including command and control.   That relief wasn't
> forthcoming for a very simple reason: the people appointed by Bush
> were not qualified for the jobs they held.   Bush's cronyism has
> destroyed the US governement's ability to function, along with its
> credibility.
>
> Given that the crippling of the federal government has long been a
> conservative goal, and that said crippling has occurred while
> government expenditure continue to grow at rates that outpace the
> spending of even the most liberal governments of the past, I believe
> that history will be very unkind in judging the conservative movement
> of the l;ate 20th and early 21st centuries.

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