Liberals in New Orleans

I have become tired of hearing everyone blame the federal Government for what happened after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans. Apparently it is the federal Government’s fault that people were not evacuated and it’s their fault that adequate food and water never made it to the Superdome for the evacuees. It amazes me though at the amount of people who can take a tragedy the magnitude of Katrina, and turn it around to make it political. The people I would be talking about are our left-wing liberal friends.

While President Bush is accused of not evacuating New Orleans because, as Kanye West claims, “George Bush doesn’t care about black people.” Has anyone actually taken the time to view how the local and state Governments royally screwed up? Let’s just start with the Mayor of New Orleans, Ray Nagin. Upon the evacuation of the City of New Orleans, Mayor Nagin placed a call out for fleets of Greyhound tour busses to drive to the city and pick up the people that could not get themselves out. A fleet of Greyhounds that size could never be assembled in time, but the Mayor happened to “overlook” the fleet of hundreds of school and public transportation busses already in the city. When questioned about this by Tim Russert (World Net Daily), of NBC’s Meet the Press, Mayor Nagin gave an argument about how drivers for those vehicles could not be found. Now honestly how hard must one think to figure out that there were people who can drive still in New Orleans? Sure, it may not have been text book, perfect “school bus driver” style, but it sure would have saved a bunch more people. Lets stop kidding ourselves the ball was dropped way in the beginning with the local Government, “depending upon our state and federal officials to move them out of harm's way” Those were Mayor Nagin's exact words to Mr. Russert about the situation -- “plop” there went the ball.

Now, I know everyone heard about the horrible conditions of the Superdome, but we never heard about why it took so long for the food, water, blankets, etc. to get to the Superdome. The American Red Cross had truckload after truckload of those supplies sent down to the evacuees, but we never really heard the reasons as to why it took so long for them to get there. The Louisiana state Government held those trucks at the state border for days! They held the trucks full of vital supplies, going to people who needed them badly, at the state line because they did not want the Superdome to become a “magnet point.” I don’t understand this, we will say that President Bush doesn’t care about black people, but yet lets hold food from evacuees because we don’t want the Superdome to become a magnet point. Doesn’t make sense to me.

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