Well, as our friend rarelamb has shown, the federal government is pretty capable when it's ass is on the line during an election year. So I'm not buying any of your nonesense about how big governments work, Guest, G.

Or, perhaps, you care to comment on the 6 hurricanses last year with adequate respons from FEMA. Check on who the head of that body was in 2004.

Are you sure your name should be Guest,G? I think Guest,S might be more appropriate. For a couple of reasons, not the least of which is your tendency to *skim* rather than read. For my comments on the 6 hurricanes last year, please see my 15 Sep 05 - 05:50 PM post to this thread. That one is 8 posts up from this one.

As I mentioned somewhere, the city of NOLA screwed up by not following their prepared evacuation plan.

You may have mentioned it, but you were wrong about it. The local governments didn't fail to follow their prepared evacuation plan. They didn't have a plan for evacuating those without transportation. They only had permission to use those busses. They did not have the resources to put them to use, nor did they have a plan for how it should be done.

As I have posted previously in this thread as well as others, Mayor Nagin said even before anyone had ever heard of Hurricane Katrina, that the local government did not have the resources to evacuate all of the people who couldn't evacuate themselves. Busses are a great thing to have, but it requires a lot more than just the busses to successfully carry out an evacuation of people who without their own means of transportation.


I have no disagreements with the article posted by beardedbruce in that thread except for this part...

"The administration has tried to change these rules"

I would like to see some evidence that they tried to change those rules.