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It's been 6 days now, many people are still burried and awaiting rescue (those still alive). Mobs are getting restless due to several days of waiting for food and water. Medical care is non-existent in most areas. Yet, for all that, this is physically a much smaller, more localized event than Katrina. Katrina devistated several states, not one small island.
Following Katrina, after 2 days, the media and the left were stirring up a schit-storm because some people didn't have hot food and air conditioning. MREs just wern't good enough. GWB and FEMA are cruicified in the press. Yet, now, in spite of poorer response to a more localized event, I see no critizism in the press on the anointed one's response. Or even comments that he can take time off to go stump for a political race in the middle of a crisis response.
One more great example of fair and balanced from the MSM. I'm sure in some way it's all Bush's fault...
One similarity between Haiti's earthquake and Louisiana's Katrina is that both display a complete lack of local government action, and the US federal government is being relied upon to do almost all the work.
...complaints about the prioritization of flights through the airport bottleneck. I read the other day that Bill Clinton arrived in a 757, and that Hilary’s arrival crowded out an aid plane.
Seems as though the state department is having a tough time signing off on bringing to the US some already adopted kids. Supports the conjecture of bad roads, heh? At least not the one preferred. The Dutch sent and flight, picked up and hundred or so kids and headed home. They'll deal with the processing once back in the EuroZone.
Just a typical U.S. government cluster... second/third/fourth/etc verse, different faces. Apparently just toooo big to function efficiently.
I'm sorry but Katrina took place IN OUR OWN COUNTRY...and as noted WE HAD WARNING. I fault EVERYONE who didn't do their part in that disaster, including the local governments (no matter their political persuasion) AND the President of OUR country.
This i totally agree with. I can't believe people are comparing something that happened in a different country to something that happened here in the US, and the continental US no less. While I do think the politicians in LA share most of the blame after Katrina, I also think that much of the blame goes to the President of our OWN country as well. And yes, I blame Haiti's leaders also but it really is difficult to compare what happens here in our backyard to a country that doesn't have decent infrastructure and medical facilities on a good day, much less after a disaster. There really just isn't any logical comparison to blame Obama and/or anyone in the US for what is happening in a FOREIGN country.
It is becoming clearer and clearer that the previous 8 years of constant complaining from the left held no validity and was only a means to push a political agenda. 8 years of strawmans. Awesome.
Seems as though the state department is having a tough time signing off on bringing to the US some already adopted kids. Supports the conjecture of bad roads, heh? At least not the one preferred. The Dutch sent and flight, picked up and hundred or so kids and headed home. They'll deal with the processing once back in the EuroZone.
Just a typical U.S. government cluster... second/third/fourth/etc verse, different faces. Apparently just toooo big to function efficiently.
Related to that, how many celebrities, media entourages and now politicians need to be in Haiti at a time like this? Every one is another person requiring food, water and shelter in an environment that has none to spare. Not to mention the bottleneck at the airport that they contribute to. Now that the military is controlling the airport, I would hope they are turning around any flights that are NOT transporting aid supplies or people with specific skills that can help in the situation.
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