However, last I checked the freedom of speech is still effective in the United States!!! Believe me I've read and heard enough of the use of that coverage to make me puke. Just as I'm hearing on the news as I'm typing this (more food for thought for ya) ~ it is the STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT'S PROBLEM TO DEAL WITH MAJOR CATASTROPHE'S!!!! FEDERAL GOVERNMENT CAN NOT GET INVOLVED WITHOUT REQUEST FROM LOCAL GOVERNMENT!!!!! (This was aired on World News tonight on TV their words NOT MINE) This is not the President's directive it is AMERICA'S BI LAWS DIRECTIVE!!!
In Newsweek, (issue dated September 12, 2005) New Orleans City Council President, Oliver Thomas even admitted to the fact that the city knew the levees wouldn't hold with such a surge as Katrina, they had even made a fictitious storm called "Hurricane Pam". Yet, during the crisis that struck our nation where did all those proposals, investigation, and help lie??? ON HIS DESK!!!! That is LOCAL LEVEL!!! And what about all the BILLIONS of dollars alloted to the state of Louisiana that the MAYOR HIMSELF spoke of on Oprah today WHERE IS THAT MONEY?? WHY wasn't that fund age released IMMEDIATELY to aid in the help ~ the MAYOR of NEW ORLEANS HIMSELF asked that question..........again not a PRESIDENTIAL decision!!! Yet, wait I see that finger just a waggling so quick to lay all this on the PRESIDENTS shoulders!!! So where do you as the average Jo blow come in???
Let us not forget while point fingers as everyone is so quick to do, what about the Governor of Louisiana who is IN CHARGE of calling in the National Guard for his state? Why since he was personally affected by losing his home did he not initiate that.......oh wait I know HA it is the President's fault. GROW UP PEOPLE!!!
This has turned so much into a point the finger at whom has wronged, and so many people are so quick to place Teflon on their bodies so the blame rolls off, that it is just easier I guess to blame the President. I guess, the President, in accordance to what I'm hearing and seeing is also responsible for mother nature Katrina!!! Which is just plain STUPID!!! Mother nature is an act of GOD not MAN!!!
Saying all of that to say what I really want to say........read now or stop I'm using this as a place to voice my thoughts and broken heart for other's whom have lost so much.
