FEMA paid millions of dollars to people in florida that were not affected by the hurricane. To assure favorable election results.

Brown did work to make sure dumbya would be appointed as pResident. That put him on dumbya’s “be-holdin” list.

This so called administration never admits corruption, wrong doing or illegal actions. They lie to the public continuously and get away with it. They prop up their corruption with paid resistance. The american people are waking up and taking notice of this.

Brown should have been fired on the spot. Any legitimate Administration would have done so. Any legitimate Administration would have hired a competent person to occupy this position.

I get so upset when I see wing-nuts saying that the school buses should have been used for evac. I scream “the governor wanted to use them for evac. but FEMA told them no, as they weren’t air conditioned.”

Come on people, if it is life and death do you really care if you are cool and comfortable?

Back on to the backs of the feds…… they dropped the ball big time, and it is race and class that make the decision of life and death. You can not deny it!

http://nothingcouldbefiner.blogspot.com/2005/09/think-progress-does-neither-while.html

Will we get an answer?

Later,

I am tired of hear about how blacks were responsible for this disaster. It is so plain to see that if Bush the murderer had wanted to get those people out he could have driven those busses that were left behind! But he left them in a parking lot to get destroyed! He WANTED those people to DIE!!!

I read about how Bush called the govenor of Louisiana three times before the storm to tell her that FEMA was going to help other places but not New Orleans! What an ass he is!

And I have been reading about how Bush planned this because he has increased every budget for everything the feds fund, except levie relief! Record deficits yet no money to protect black people! He takes money out of the public schools so that white bigots can go to private schools. He starts a war with innocent Iraqs by telling the same lies as every other world leader just so he can kill brown people, blows up levies to kill black people, ignores a massacare in Rowanda so that more blacks will die, and stops a war in Bosnia because those were whites dying! What a racist jerk!

I hate Bush and his power mad cronies!
Support Hillery and Rev Al!
THEY will not allow whites to kill blacks!
They will see to it that New Orleans is built properly! They will stop loggers from murdering trees!
They will stop corporations from exploiting poor workers for profits!
The ticket for the expoited, Hill and Rev Al!
Keep the christian bigots from taking over the country!

Make love, not war!
Peace and love to all

Later,

Too bad they were overwhelmed, because FEMA was aware of the scope, and if it had been competently run it would have been prepared.

In 2001, FEMA warned that a hurricane striking New Orleans was one of the three most likely disasters in the U.S. But the Bush administration cut New Orleans flood control funding by 44 percent to pay for the Iraq war.

The former director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency told Congress Tuesday that the agency was beleaguered and beaten up by budget cuts and personnel losses during the past three years, and overwhelmed by the events of Hurricane Katrina.

the Office
of Technology Assessment used to produce forward-thinking plans such
as “Floods: A National Policy Concern” and “A Framework for Flood
Hazards Management.” Unfortunately, the office was targeted by Newt
Gingrich and the Republican right, and gutted years ago.

In fact, there is now a governmentwide movement away from basing
policy on science, expertise and professionalism, and in favor of
choices based on ideology. If you’re wondering what the ideological
position on flood management might be, look at the pictures of New
Orleans – it seems to consist of gutting the programs that do
anything.

Unfortunately, the war in Iraq is directly related to the
devastation left by the hurricane. About 35 percent of Louisiana’s
National Guard is now serving in Iraq, where four out of every 10
soldiers are guardsmen. Recruiting for the Guard is also down
significantly because people are afraid of being sent to Iraq if they
join, leaving the Guard even more short-handed.

The Louisiana National Guard also notes that dozens of its high-
water vehicles, Humvees, refuelers and generators have also been sent
abroad. (I hate to be picky, but why do they need high-water vehicles
in Iraq?)

This, in turn, goes back to the original policy decision to go
into Iraq without enough soldiers and the subsequent failure to admit
that mistake and to rectify it by instituting a draft.

The levees of New Orleans, two of which are now broken and
flooding the city, were also victims of Iraq war spending. Walter
Maestri, emergency management chief for Jefferson Parish, said on
June 8, 2004, “It appears that the money has been moved in the
president’s budget to handle homeland security and the war in Iraq.

“Former FEMA Director Mike Brown told a House investigative panel yesterday that he takes much of the blame for the agency’s response to ‘a national disaster of horrifying proportions which continues to cause pain, heartache and devastating financial hardship for millions of Americans.’

“‘I should have come to Congress sooner to witness this tragedy in person,’ Mr. Brown told lawmakers. ‘As the government official in charge of coordinating disaster relief, I must take a large share of the blame for the dysfunctional organization, petty bickering, turf wars and massive amounts of wasteful spending that continue to this day.’

“The departing director acknowledged that the agency had been ‘overwhelmed by the scope and sequence of the disaster.’

“‘FEMA is set up to handle storms that blow hard, and pass quickly,” he said. “Congress has only one of those characteristics.’”

Well that’s what you’re doing with Nagin – that’s called PROJECTION my stupid friend. The reality is that the federal government after 9/11 was made responsible for preparedness in situations like this. They were given a blank check to do so. And they screwed up COMPLETELY! To blame a local mayor for this level of incompetence is just stupid partisan hack nonsense! Wake up you dope!

From where?

“Nagin had no plan to evacuate the poor of New Orleans. Months before he even told the poor of New Orleans that they were on their own.”

Neither did houston. That’s why shelters were set up for them. That’s why it was the job of FEMA to come and rescue the people who were in the shelters and who couldn’t get out.

And by the way FEMA APPROVED the plan that Nagin and Blanco had. Perhaps if your cronies weren’t runing that incompetent fiasco of FEMA, they would have been able to come up with a better plan instead of rubber stamping what a local mayor did. After all, one would think the department of HOMELAND SECURITY would have enough of our billions to hire people that actually have expertise. And since NOLA was listed as one of the 3 MOST PRECARIOUS situations for a disaster, they would have prioritized this.

No matter how you slice it the blame ALWAYS points back to the failure of the FEDS.

I am from Louisian and I’m housing an evacuee right now. I know what has happened. I know who did what. The national media doesn’t have a monopoly on knowledge or what has happened here. Local and state officials failed. Nagin had no plan to evacuate the poor of New Orleans. Months before he even told the poor of New Orleans that they were on their own.

The Federal Government was slow in responding, but worse was Louisiana’s own lack of leadership and response. Blanco kept the Red Cross out of New Orleans. And Nagin had no intention to ever evacuate the poor of New Orleans.

If you simply keep blaming the Feds, you simply don’t know what you’re talking about.

Watch, read and listen on the web, as congress, republicans, democrats, the media and bloggers tear off Micheal Brown’s metaphorical limbs one by one: 5 News Sites The facts didn’t back him up so Brown engaged in some revisionist history.(Brown’s R…

http://mediamatters.org/items/200509080002#20050909

Search and rescue after a disaster is FEMA’s charter – or did you skip that part on your way to the republican blame game?

What resources would a mayor have to provide this after his infrastructure has been destroyed? Or had that never dawned on your pea brain? The reality is that FEMA as a national organization is chartered with sending in relief, supplies and rescue from the outside, with the assumption that all local resources are either damaged or unavailable. That’s the whole point of a FEMA organization you stupid dingbat!

Have you read the National Response Plan?

The DOD was involved in evacuating special needs residents of Beaumont, Texas before Hurricane Rita.

In your rationale, shouldn’t that have been the responsibility of the city of Beaumont?

Rep. Jefferson (D-LA) referred to the NRP in a comment:

“…the national response plan talks about proactive federal response.”