Something the Dog Said wrote: One thing we can be thankful for is that under Obama's watch, the solar system has not suffered further massive cutbacks in the number of planets that it suffered under the Bush administration.
Pluto's still a planet, damnit!
"Whatever you are, be a good one." ~ Abraham Lincoln
FredHayek wrote: Obama's hands off approach is making it worse. He is the king of commiting sins of omission. Hopefully the New York media start to blame Obama like they blamed "W" for Katrina.
You'll rot in he11 waiting for it.
Obama is deeply involved in trying to remove barriers, and set expectations... You can set expectations all you want, but you can't make the wires reconnect faster than what it takes a technician to splice them back together...
The difference was, Bush didn't care... He delegated it to some moron who was more interested in photo-ops than performance...
Michael Brown and FEMA: Incompetence Personified
Michael Brown's qualifications for FEMA Director? GOP fundraiser and former FEMA head Joe Allbaugh's college roommate and close pal, and a commissioner for the International Arabian Horse Association -- (who was fired for incompetence).
Oh, how I KNOW you're pining for some sort of "equivalence" so you can point and say the two situations are similar... They aren't... Deal with it.
True, the situations are different, not as many people lost power in New Orleans, and they didn't have to worry about freezing to death or gas rationing.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
otisptoadwater wrote: Chief, I have no quarrel with you and the folks who are suffering from the after effects of Sandy and yet another storm a week later.
Where is FEMA? Why aren't the National Guard and Active Duty personnel assisting the locals? Bush took it in the posterior over the same question over his administration's response to Katrina. Somehow Barry gets a pass?
I don't know about FEMA, but the government contractors are getting the calls to go, your tax dollars hard at work - hubby leaves Sunday for New Jersey and may not be back for Thanksgiving. His company does environmental remediation and disaster clean-up for the DOD. They were the company that went in to clean up New Orleans after Katrina too (he said the meat markets were the worst - they were pumping out liquified, putrid meat and the smell never came out of their clothes, they just tossed them). One of his most enlightening comments was that he felt safer in Baghdad than he did in New Orleans, and it was a much easier situation in Iraq to set up an office and start working - at least they had power, running water, and internet available. I imagine much of the east coast will be as challenging.
I spoke with one of my friends after the Chamber meeting this morning, her father refused to leave his NJ home during Sandy and the eye of the hurricane passed right over him at one point. He's fine, but he said that the northeaster they got afterwards was actually way worse - with all of the damage from Sandy, so many don't have adequate shelter or provisions, and the cleanup crews became very hampered just trying to remove debris from roadways after the snow. Winter is coming, they will need lots of assistance and fast.
"Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.” -King T'Challa, Black Panther
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ~Winston Churchill
