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alanswan wrote:

> You don't seem to understand what your talking about,, Once Bush declared 
> the disaster area,, The aid and rescue efforts were supposed to start 
> automatically without a need for any request. That's the whole point of 
> making such a declaration, it is intended to cut through red tape and 
> eliminate the need for formal requests to be sent through government 
> channels in order to get the help where it is needed immediately. 
> Unfortunately, the person running FEMA was not aware of this small detail in 
> the operations procedures manual and instead sat waiting for a phone call 
> from someone asking for help.. LOL
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The aid was there and offered but the State still retains control of the 
show unless it speciffically cedes the efforts to FEMA.  That is what 
has been done in years past.  That is why it has worked in the past.

Remember that FEMA's role is after the disaster not usually before or 
during.  With a disater of such scale it takes time for FEMA to step in 
and help but the Govenor chose to not work with FEMA and instead hires 
her own relief director to do things.

That is just a small fraction of what went wrong.  IT was not our 
Federal Government but the State and Local officials who screwed up.

MRC

P.S.  Top posting is considered by manners by many in this new group. 
Just thought I would pass that on to you.


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> "Ducks-R-US" <bad@moon.rising> wrote in message 
> news:lDTSe.6743$L86.2028@bignews6.bellsouth.net...
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>>"Tim Campbell" <timcall@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
>>news:1125894045.886073.267790@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
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>>>Bush Declares Evacuation Victory -- Cindy Sheehan has left Crawford
>>>
>>>
>>>George W. Bush, who spent two days last week using military people as
>>>backdrops for his photo-ops in his war against weepy mothers, won the
>>>public relations battle that occupied him Tuesday and Wednesday. Cindy
>>>Sheehan surrendered to the high-priority blitz staged by the president
>>>who utilized triple the costs he had spent for saving New Orleans
>>>drowning citizens on the same Tuesday and Wednesday. Soldiers and
>>>sailors stood around on Tuesday-Wedneday instead of mobilizing to help
>>>anybody other than Bush himself.
>>>
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>>   It was a State's rights issue you Liberal Gull.  Feds couldn't come in
>>until the Governor of LA asked for help.  Since the President had already
>>declared all the Gulf States a disaster area two days before the Hurricane
>>Struck, aid was immediately available.  LA Governor had 6,500 National 
>>Guard
>>at her disposal, but had only activated 2,000, but she still could have
>>asked for the Feds to come in immediately.  Up in Baton Rouge, she
>>hesitated.  So you come in here crying a river of State's rights all the
>>time, but this is one time, where State's rights, combined with a 
>>Governors
>>indecision, cost a lot of lives.  Plus, as I've said before, I'd never 
>>build
>>or live in an area under sea level; even if the levee's had been built to
>>Amsterdam specifications, it would not have stopped a tsunami.  Bad news
>>about rebuilding New Orleans, is what will happen if a tsunami, or the 
>>next
>>New Madrid Fault earthquake hits and shifts the flow of the Mississippi? 
>>I
>>can understand people building below sea level in the days of the French
>>before they knew better; but how many more times will we have to bail them
>>out?  I'm not without compassion, but its sheer stupidity to keep 
>>rebuilding
>>a city that is below sea level and surround by the Gulf on one side, a 
>>lake
>>on the other, and the Mississippi River; talk about a triple threat! 
>>People
>>saw this threat coming for decades, and no one was willing to say the
>>obvious that no one should be living in mass below sea level because it
>>wasn't politically popular.
>>
>>         Mallard Fillmore
>>         Ducks@web.net
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