From: Rick v100 (rickv100@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Sep 02 2005 - 09:02:18 PDT
Excellent post. Wish we could take the politics as
usual approach and get a "get it done yesterday no
matter the cost" approach that we had in WW2.
Lots of people out there who will rise to the top when
the chips are down and called to act.
Rick
--- Wes Knettle <wsknettl@centurytel.net> wrote:
> Saw some really idiot replies to that issue here.
> Rebuilding in flood
> zones ahs been denied in hundreds of areas across
> the US over the years.
>
> The City of New Orleans made it's bed 2 hundred
> years ago. It chose it's
> own building site. It was and still is a bad choice.
> The City unloaded
> it's flood water problem on the the state years ago.
> And the state
> dumped it on the Army Corp of Engineers a few years
> later. Local
> government still has the primary responsibility for
> the safety of it's
> own residents. The mayor of New Orleans should have
> had an indigent's
> evacuation transportation plan on the table over 50
> years ago. Or do you
> folks expect the Air Force and the Army to have all
> the necessary
> transportation posted on standby nearby. If you do
> then speak up and
> fund the Army and the Air Force for that task. Other
> wise direct your
> gripe at the local leadership who's task it was to
> insure a plan was in
> place and to implement it when needed in a timely
> manner. Just as the
> governor of Mississippi Haley commented "I pleaded
> with these folks to
> evacuate friday, Saturday and Sunday" his staff and
> the local
> communities should have been canvassing door to door
> to find those in
> need of transportation and provide the
> transportation. Or do you guys
> really expect the US Government to have been
> standing tall in line in
> every gulf state city with bussess and troop
> carriers knocking on doors
> for the local officials.
>
> Law prohibits the federal government from
> interfering with a state's
> problem without the state's consent unless it's an
> act of war against
> the entire US or a breech of one's US constitutional
> rights. I sure
> didn't see either one of these happen until 2 days
> ago when lawless
> individuals accosted peaceful bystanders.
>
> Keep in mind the two most important resources in
> everyone's possesion.
> Their MONEY and their RIGHTS. Most people, most
> cities and most states
> will not easily give up either. So each level from
> the starnded private
> individual on up to the US congress are waiting to
> see who (further up
> the food chain) they can force to act and PAY for
> the rescue.
>
> For those rather loud folks who want the Army to go
> back in shooting.
> This is quickly tempered by the thing we are all
> afraid of. The blood
> and money thirsty Attorneys who will file the long
> list of class action
> law suits agianst the US Government (The American
> Tax payer for those of
> you who don't really know who the US Government is)
> for any pain and
> suffering caused to a poor upset local with a rifle
> who is exercising
> his God given right to express himself at any cost
> to any other person.
> Had the local law enforcement acted with more lethal
> force against
> looters and gangs not involved in foraging for life
> saving staples there
> would have been a different outcome.
>
> A liberal democrat once said "Ask not what your
> country can do for you,
> Ask what you can do for your country".
>
> Rather than spending all this energy bad mouthing
> the US government, the
> armed forces of the US and the Army Corp of
> engineers you guys should be
> asking for and/or offering solutions to the current
> pressing problem.
> Rescue and placement. Go help or invite displaced
> families to your home
> or your church or your city.
>
> Wes Knettle
>
>
>
>
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