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Originally posted by Coramoor
Read the article already posted above about how Nagin mis-handled the situation. While he is not single handedly supposed to fix it, he is the one that in charge down there. If there was any lack of activity it was due to him not doing his job.
I still think that most of the blame lies with the local and state gov't in this situation. The Feds now have to come in to clean up an even bigger mess.
It does take time to mobilize troops. Especially when the state and feds are fighting over control of the situation. The gov down there didn't want the feds to take over b/c they didn't want 'martial law' there. That wrestle of power took time away from the victims. There are many things that added to the time, although 5 days before there was any help is definitly wrong. Yeah, it was a few days before there were a 100k troops, but there have been help there since it happened.
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a few days????
talk about lowered expectations. a day here and there is the difference between life and death for a lot of these people. it's easy to try and lay blame on nagin, but the last time i checked new orleans was a city in lousiana, which is a state in the US. so hence, if there is a disaster that is far too great for city, or state resources to handle...then it's the fed's job to step intervene. you put an entire city underwater, and you want to talk about how the local government should have been better prepared?
