Nah, protecting property is apparently far more important than saving lives.

As for the lack of planning, there have been plans, plans, and more plans
about the catastrophic failure of those levees and dikes in place for
decades.

Read "The control of Nature" by John McPhee, he, among many writers, was
talking about the role of the Army corp of Engineers in that area and their
plans years ago.

"Mr. Bill" of SNL fame did a flippin PSA about the levees breaking well over
a year ago.

Contrary to Mr. Bush's comments, a lot of people knew exactly what would
happen when the levee's were breached. They were asking, begging and
pleading for federal money for decades to help fix the problems.

What they got was decreasing budgets every year from the last 3
administrations. Contracters working on the last series of local/state
projects went without pay for a year in order to complete their work. The
last local budget was used to pay contracter's for work done the previous
year.

The lack of leadership from the federal government is mind numbing. The
president went to a freakin golf course AFTER being informed that a class
4,5 hurricane was less than 100 miles from landfall.

The directors of both FEMA and of Homeland Security have exactly zero
experience in emergency/disaster preparedness and response. Mr. Brown of
FEMA had to be told by television reporters the extent of the problems
erupting at the New Orleans convention center. And these are the people who
are in charge of things? God help us when we actually get attacked by
someone.






"ROYNEU" wrote in message
oups.com...
You could be right. I couldn't tell if Mark and/or Juanita was refering
to the shooting at rescue workers or if it was the case where the Gov.
pulled the police out of the rescue work night before last to stop the
looters in general.

Let them have the TV's etc. there will be no power to plug it into
anyway. Beside they will be selling their hide for a drink of water
pretty soon.

Roy