NOLA Mayor fears CIA may take him out

ftr,

It has been all over the news that the response by FEMA to this disaster has been...well...a disaster. See this as one example:

www.baptistboard.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php/topic/1/3917.html

 

Your one example is a thread on BB about one town in Mississippi? I know it's easy to armchair quarterback a disaster of this magnitude, but you might sit back and consider the area involved, the scale of the disaster, the need to prioritize the area closest to it, and the fact of limited resources. It seems incongruent to complain that the Federal government should be smaller (and I agree) and then to complain that they weren't prepared for a massive and immediate response in the entire area.

 

I must admit that this whole situation is causing me to reassess my smaller government ideology, ftr.

 

Maybe we should just find a carismatic leader who can work wonders. One who can accomplish seemingly impossable things. One who could even fool the very elect if that were possible.

 

LE-"That is true, but I have NEVER in my lifetime seen thousands of people herded together in public shelters after a disaster waiting for days for FEMA to bring food and water...until now. There is no excuse!"

You have never seen a disaster of this maginitude until now -period!

 

Bunyon:

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Maybe we should just find a carismatic leader who can work wonders. One who can accomplish seemingly impossable things. One who could even fool the very elect if that were possible."

Isn't this describing the anitchrist.

 

LorrieGrace,

You must be one of the elect.

 

Ken,

PLEASE don't change your smaller government ideology. My own libertarianism was "corrected" in reading F.A. Hayek's The Constitution of Liberty to the view that the central government has a proper role in response to major disasters. That doesn't call into serious question the premise that smaller government is generally better, only that there is a need and a proper response for the central government to marshal the resources to alleviate and respond to large catastrophes. I think the proper compromise is struck with the way FEMA is set up and trains to such disasters, that it is better for local and state to respond first and to call on the feds only when overwhelmed. The theory, at least, is that state and local are still in charge. I have a passing, but not thorough, familiarization with this, as my Navy Reserve unit's mission used to be consequence management and we had to undergo FEMA training to assist in such disasters, but I've never actually been involved in one.

But I still submit that a Reaganite/conservative suspicion of large government and central government is still the safe and best default mode.

 

JFK, Bobby, Martin . . . .

 

Even if there was a conspiracy to take those three out (and I've seen some pretty convincing stuff about JFK) it is absurd to include the moron in NOLA among them.

 

I think he's been abducted by aliens and now he's paranoid.