Katrina venting
Sep. 5th, 2005 01:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kittenscribble(also known as: reading too many newsblogs may be bad for your health.)
yes, local officials could have done more. But there's accountability at the national level; even the head of FEMA didn't know about the situation at the convention center until much later than the general public. Besides, since the guy at the top doesn't consider this catastrophe as anything more than a publicity stunt (and this is only after he bothered to look out his window and state the obvious), I'd say there's plenty of blame to go around. I mean, it's not like he hasn't been cutting FEMA and flood control funding all along. His party, instead of looking for solutions, starts pointing fingers and proposing oh-so-useful tax relief programs for the afflicted. Short of actually flying out to Texas there's nothing I can personally do to help, and even the people I've donated my money to aren't allowed into the city because, y'know, that'll just encourage those lazy Orleanians to stay. Can't be helping the Louisiana insurgency, you know.
If I weren't so angry I would be frightened for my life.
yes, local officials could have done more. But there's accountability at the national level; even the head of FEMA didn't know about the situation at the convention center until much later than the general public. Besides, since the guy at the top doesn't consider this catastrophe as anything more than a publicity stunt (and this is only after he bothered to look out his window and state the obvious), I'd say there's plenty of blame to go around. I mean, it's not like he hasn't been cutting FEMA and flood control funding all along. His party, instead of looking for solutions, starts pointing fingers and proposing oh-so-useful tax relief programs for the afflicted. Short of actually flying out to Texas there's nothing I can personally do to help, and even the people I've donated my money to aren't allowed into the city because, y'know, that'll just encourage those lazy Orleanians to stay. Can't be helping the Louisiana insurgency, you know.
If I weren't so angry I would be frightened for my life.
