What makes you think Katrina was a local disaster?
Local governments are fine for local disasters. Think fire, river flood,
explosion.
The federal government set itself up for the biggies. Like walls of water
and hundreds of thousands of displaced evacuees and thousands trapped
because they were too poor or too old or sick to get out of the way.

From the FEMA web pages:
The Federal Emergency Management Agency - a former independent agency that
became part of the new Department of Homeland Security in March 2003 - is
tasked with responding to, planning for, recovering from and mitigating
against disasters.

Pookie is just singing the "it's not my fault song" so popular in
Washington.

Face up to it. The federal government with all its resources stood around
playing with themselves while people died, but it wasn't their fault. The
governor of Louisiana should have had more National Guard troops to take
control. Where were they? In Iraq. who sent them there. The idiots that
Pookie thinks so highly of.
More than enough said.

(end of rant)

Charlie

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