The rain of blame....
OK - I told y'all (I've been hanging out with my southern friends lately) on Wednesday that I was declaring a personal moriatorium of 24 hours on politics. I gave it almost 48 and now it is time....
Over the last 2 days, while many Americans were pulling together to help our friends and neighbors who had been hurt by the furor that was Hurricane Katrina, the "armchair first-responders" (as Michelle Malkin called them last night) were heaping blame on the federal government for the situation in New Orleans. From the cries that "global warming caused the hurricane" (total poppycock according to the people at NOAA who know better) to "the government should have had boots on the ground in NO the minute the storm moved out", to "we aren't getting hot meals" (uttered by an ingrate who is stuck in a city that has no way to cook food) the din has been impossible to miss. Michelle Malkin has had a very good round up and response to a lot of these people, but I would like to add my 2 cents.
So you are upset that the only food you are getting are cold MRE's....you feel that the troops that are keeping you safe from the predators patroling the streets should also be cooking for you? Well I want to know why you don't get off of your behind and get yourself to a place where you can heat your MRE's! You made the choice to ride out a Cat 5 hurricane in a town that is prone to flooding, what DID YOU EXPECT???? So you think that the federal government should have had National Guard troops in the city waiting for the storm to hit - with trucks to evacuate people...well if we had done that, the trucks would be under water and the troops would still not be able to get you out and you would still be stuck! What do you think would be different from today??? So you think the federal government should have spent more to "upgrade" the canal and levee system that surrounds New Orleans, what about the government of New Orleans? I mean the City of Minneapolis is responsible for their own infrastructure....shouldn't the city of New Orleans be responsible for THEIR OWN infrastructure???? Never mind the fact that the levee that failed was one of the few that had been upgraded in recent years....and never mind the fact that the current governor of Louisiana won (in part) on a platform of not spending more tax dollars on levee improvement...
Now before you go and accuse me of being an "apologist" for the President, I will tell you that there ARE a lot things that he could have done better, but the bottom line is this... there is plenty of blame to go around. Those that refused to follow an evacuation order share some blame in this, the City of New Orleans and the state of Louisiana have some blame to share here, AND the federal government shares some blame....Don't be suckered in by the illogical ideology that is driven by hatred of the President and all he stands for. The American people and the people of Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi deserve better!
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