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Jinx wrote:

>>FEMA is meeting a lot of resistance from the local governments
>>who don't want their local empires to lose any control
>>    
>>
>
>New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin was pretty vocal about what he
>wanted to be done. "Get off your asses" I think he said. Not the
>usual diplomatic sound bite you get from an official
>
>  
>
But to my knowledge the GOVERNOR of the state has to Ask or OK federal 
help.  A fiend of mine in central Louisiana said  what he heard was the 
governor wanted all the federal assistance they could get but they 
wanted the state to control everything.  But it does not work that way.  
If FEMA comes in they control all of their resource and and the federal 
troops are under federal control..  He claims that had a lot to do with 
the delays and there were a lot of federal resources ready to go.  

Look at it this way The state was stupid enough to allow a large city 
like New Orleans to be built in a bowl as much as 20 feet below the 
normal water level of one of the largest rivers in North America.  And 
on the North side is a lake that looks to be 10 time as big as the city 
with the normal water level also that high. 

They have been saying for who knows how many years that when the big 
hurricane hits this was Going to happen.  Well it finally happened.  I 
say if any one is to blame it is the STATE OF LOUISIANA Government for 
allowing it to get to this point and they are TOTALLY at fault for not 
being prepared to handle it.


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