"Charlie Bress" wrote in
:

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

"Pookie" wrote in message
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diatribe snipped




State and Local governments are supposed to act until the National
government can muster it's efforts.

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