NO Mayor Rips into the Feds Slow Response
Mayor Nagin did a 12 minute radio interview available on CNN. I'm not sure how to link it directly, so go to their homepage and watch the video. Here's an article about it. The mayor slams the slow response from federal relief efforts and makes an impassioned plea for help. This man knows of what he speaks. The slow speed of FEMA's response has been disgraceful all the way around. FEMA and other federal efforts are particularly disgraceful in regards to the Convention Center as I talked about yesterday. Thousands of refugees were sent there and then it was virtually abandon for until yesterday afternoon when the rioting, beatings, and rapes broke out.
You know all this talk of tens of thousands of National Guard troops being sent? As of late Thursday hardly any of them were even there yet! To quote Michael Chertoff, homeland security secretary, from the Washington Times, "as of yesterday there were 2,800 troops in New Orleans". What? 2,800?! They need 40,000 or so and on day 4 they had 2,800! What happened to the supposedly prepositioned relief effort since we had some warning of this storm's severity?
Also in the Times article, FEMA director Mike Brown said, "there is no truth to reports food is scarce in New Orleans. 'The state has requested five trailer loads of MREs and water to be delivered today. Those are en route. There was plenty of food to feed last night in the Superdome. There was plenty of food to feed this morning. And there will be plenty of food to feed this evening,' Mr. Brown said. 'So, any reports to the contrary are just incorrect.'"
WHAT? Is this man a complete idiot?! The biggest single problem with a lack of food and water is at the Convention Center, you moron! Over 10,000 people took shelter there as their government told them to do, then they were abandon!
This is so mind boggling. Brown also said yesterday that the relief effort was "going relatively well". Relative to what?! What is he smoking/snorting/injecting? We don't have time for this right now as so many people still need to be saved, but in the aftermath of this relief effort, I think some heads are going to roll.
You know all this talk of tens of thousands of National Guard troops being sent? As of late Thursday hardly any of them were even there yet! To quote Michael Chertoff, homeland security secretary, from the Washington Times, "as of yesterday there were 2,800 troops in New Orleans". What? 2,800?! They need 40,000 or so and on day 4 they had 2,800! What happened to the supposedly prepositioned relief effort since we had some warning of this storm's severity?
Also in the Times article, FEMA director Mike Brown said, "there is no truth to reports food is scarce in New Orleans. 'The state has requested five trailer loads of MREs and water to be delivered today. Those are en route. There was plenty of food to feed last night in the Superdome. There was plenty of food to feed this morning. And there will be plenty of food to feed this evening,' Mr. Brown said. 'So, any reports to the contrary are just incorrect.'"
WHAT? Is this man a complete idiot?! The biggest single problem with a lack of food and water is at the Convention Center, you moron! Over 10,000 people took shelter there as their government told them to do, then they were abandon!
This is so mind boggling. Brown also said yesterday that the relief effort was "going relatively well". Relative to what?! What is he smoking/snorting/injecting? We don't have time for this right now as so many people still need to be saved, but in the aftermath of this relief effort, I think some heads are going to roll.
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