This also "frosts me" ken... I have been reading articles how LA politicos
consistently treat the poor and black populations with little regard to
safety.  I think I just forwarded an item here..  This kind of blatant
disregard makes me so angry.  They all knew a disaster was coming... and
now they blame fema which isn't so great, but the mayors and locals all
knew it was coming and did precious little. argh!
Thanks for the info ken.


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> [Original Message]
> From: ken barber <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 9/8/2005 6:16:53 PM
> Subject: ready to be frosted again    warning this is about the hurricane.
>
> it was reported that the u.s. navy had ships in the
> gulf riding out the storm. FEMA told them not to come
> to the port of new orleans. i guess they could have
> presumably helped.
>
> on the other side: it was also reported today (you can
> dig it out on red cross site if you shearch) that the
> american red cross had food, water, and personal
> hygene kits in place and ready to truck in to the
> people who were in the civic center and the super
> dome, but were told that they could not deliver them
> by new orleans and state "officals." the reason gave
> "if you give them food, water, and comfort items, more
> people will comne and will not want to leave", " we do
> not want them to stay and we do not want to create a
> magnet to draw more people in."
>
> futher it was revealed that the mayor was interviewed
> on a new orleans radio station a few days before the
> storm hit and it was suggested that he use the school
> busses to take the poor to safety and he dismissed the
> idea saying he wanted greyhound to see all there
> busses to new orleans. "get their asses down here and
> bus the poor out." i hear what was reported to be the
> tape.
>
> the washington post reorted that president bushes
> budget for the corps of engineers spent more in his 5
> years than all 8 years of the clinton admin. the post
> further reported that new orleans politicians would
> use riders in bills they knew would not be vetoed to
> force the corps to use money on projects that the
> corps deemed useless or of little value. that would
> meen the money would not get spent on levees. the
> present u.s. senator was given as an example with the
> deepening of a port new new orllens that had little
> trffic and the dredging of parts of the rivers that
> had lttle if any barge traffic. it further reported
> that La. got more by far than any other state, coming
> in  at around 2 1/2 billion dollars a year, cailf. was
> a distant 2nd with 1 billion even though it had many
> times the population of La.
> the post further reported that the corps of engineers
> says that position of the wetlands projects would not
> have cousioned new orleans becouse of there location
> relative to where katrina came ashore and the
> direction it headed. they also stated that the sea
> wall that broke was a finished project and had no
> scheduled maintenace in the mix.
>
> some of this like femas action and that of the red
> cross being restrained from giving those folks food,
> water, and hygene kits frost me.
>
> the rest i am storing away in the things to know
> catagory.
>
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