🚀 go-pugleaf

<dashaun345@aol.com> wrote in message news:43213EFA.96325B8E@aol.com...
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> wrcowan1@hal-pc.org wrote:
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> > alanswan wrote:
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> > > 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.
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> Republican Senator Trent Lott of Mississippi said he
> has been trying to get FEMA to send 20,000 trailers
> "sitting in Atlanta" to the Mississippi coast, and he
> urged President Bush during a meeting Monday
> to intervene. He said FEMA has refused to ship the
> trailers until contracts are secured.
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> http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/05/katrina.lott/

Dashaun: save your strokes, man. This un's already zombified....no hope for
his kind, now. Might as well aim for the head........
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