CDC Tests Confirm FEMA Trailers Toxic

[UGAalum94]

So after he made the hurricane, Bush sent in poisoned trailers and made people live in them for more than two years? Diabolical.

I do think the efforts to avoid the testing or minimize the results of the testing are completely horrible. It's the only part that I see as being nefarious, FWIW, but it's significant.

It's hard to figure out why the people in health and testing would have played along, considering the strong advocacy and backup they could expect from the media.

I mean, if I had reason to believe that people were being poisoned, I don't think I'd allow that information to be suppressed with people's health at stake, and I don't regard myself as particularly courageous when it comes to speaking truth to power.

[skylark]

Originally Posted by UGAalum94

So after he made the hurricane

No one alleges that he caused the hurricaine. I think that when the government is going to give help so little and so late, that it could at least make sure that the help it gives doesn't create new problems. It isn't like this is something where the risk itself of formaldehyde (sp?) wasn't known at the time.

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by skylark

No one alleges that he caused the hurricaine. I think that when the government is going to give help so little and so late, that it could at least make sure that the help it gives doesn't create new problems. It isn't like this is something where the risk itself of formaldehyde (sp?) wasn't known at the time.

So you would have left them in tents?

It's not like a better option was available and they ignored it.

What would you have had them do? If you don't have an answer, then maybe we should lay off the judgment a smidgen.

Now, I sure would have had them handle the testing differently, but even so, if you don't have 38,000 hotel rooms available, what would you do?

Seriously, what would you have done? Where would you have put them? Where should all those families go now?

[skylark]

Originally Posted by UGAalum94

Seriously, what would you have done? Where would you have put them? Where should all those families go now?

Seriously, I think there isn't a perfect solution, but no one is arguing for perfection. I think if the government had made FEMA relief more of a priority (which I think it would have done had the people needing help been white wealthy families) that we could have done better than that.

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by skylark

Seriously, I think there isn't a perfect solution, but no one is arguing for perfection. I think if the government had made FEMA relief more of a priority (which I think it would have done had the people needing help been white wealthy families) that we could have done better than that.

You can think it, but it doesn't make it reality.

What can you come up with for non-perfect solutions? What solutions do you think would have appeared had the folks been richer and whiter?