Okay Bush bashers help me understand this.........?

Question

Persident Bush is responsible for the damge caused by Katrina (as some of you believe). However in 1977 the Army Corp of Engineers attempted to build concrete barrier gates, similar to the flood control gates used in the Netherlands. The building of these gates was stopped after the environ-mental (wackos) filed suit. So one can only assume that this is what caused the flooding. My question is who is at fault based on this information?

Answer 1

yawn

Answer 2

He's not responsible for the damage, he's responsible for the completely sorry job of rescue, relief and reconstruction.

At least get your premise right.

Answer 3

I believe the fault starts w/ the state and local governments. Then it moves to the federal government after the state has done all it can. This didn't happen. What did the state & county do to prepare for Katrina? But tons of ppl will find a way to blame President Bush for any & everything.

Answer 4

Who was going to pay for these barriers. Did the local government try to sell some junk bonds to build it or what. Or did they try to ask the public that they needed more taxes to pay for it.

It all boils down to money and the risk associated with out building it verses building it.

Answer 5

He is not responsible for the damage but he is for the way the situation was handled. A lot of the people of New Orleans may not have understood the situation or felt they had much of a choice. These are not the most educated and most sophisticated of folks. We should all help with the rebuilding because it's an American city. It could happen where we live. Don't think it couldn't? It wouldn't necessarily be the exact thing but the damage cost could be. We send money to other countries to help so you want to turn your back on New Orleans?? What is wrong with you? You sound like a selfish human being that is out of touch with the world. I'm not calling you names. I realize that I could be wrong. It's part of being human. Bush is devoting a lot of money to Iraq. It was a huge mistake. HUGE! Most educated people have no faith or respect in the man. He has had a lot of vacation time. What does that tell you? It tells me that he is taking care of himself and his friends. At one time the government was responsible for its citizens recognizing that we live in a very complicated world. Bush should be working more like the rest of us and not less. Our constitution is under fire. The only way it can be changed is with a change of government per John Locke. This issue is really complex.

Answer 6

Kid....come back when you know what you're talking about.

Answer 7

The problem in New Orleans was liberalism, not the government response. Liberalism.........the environ-mental(love the way you spelled that) wackos that poo-poo any reasonable wetlands management. Liberalism.......a mentality that some one else is supposed to take care of me (welfare mentality) largest percentage per-capita of welfare recipients of any large city in the U.S. I could go on and on, but you get the drift.

Answer 8

President Bush is not responsible for Katrina. (Although he is a quite powerful man, so far as I know, he can't control the weather.) Finger pointing and blaming Bush is a natural and quite human reaction to the devastation that occurred during the storm and after. My main concern is whether our government at all levels learned a lesson from it. Are matters being attended to now? What is being done to rebuild and refurbish the damaged areas? Are the levees being repaired or rebuilt? How is the clean up going? Are people returning to their homes.

    My only complaint was that it took the federal government so long to respond to the devastation and need right after the storm. The devastation was too great for the local and state authorities to handle alone. There should have been trucks from FEMA lined up on the interstate waiting out the storm and ready to speed supplies and manpower to the area. The four day response time by the Feds was shameful.

Answer 9

Go to bed kiddo, your mommy's got to take you daycare in the morning. You have no idea what you're talking about, no one's blamed Bush for the damage wrought by Hurricane Katrina, everyone has rightfully blamed him for his adminstration's lousy, slow response that cost many their lives. There's quite a big difference there. Do you get that?  Many people wondered why the richest country in the world, the country that put a man on the moon couldn't get rescuers to an American city in less than 6 days. That was the problem. Not the fact that there was damage, only conspiracy nuts, the same people who think Elvis and the Freemasons killed Kennedy using Area 51 Alien technology believe that Bush had anything to do with the flooding itself. Do you understand the difference now?

Rebuttal: I'm not vile, I'm telling the truth, the National Guard was called up by the Governor, and since most of them lived in areas hit by the hurricane (where a majority of people in the state live) they were essentially powerless. The Superdome wasn't a bad place to go, but they needed water and evacuation, they needed a federal response. Bush signing something four days later doesn't get them food and water and it didn't evacuate anyone. That would require actual action. Try reading something beside Ann Coulter once in awhile kiddo. You seem to be saying that the federal response was quick, efficient and excellent. In that case you have astonishingly low standards, but then again, you're obviously a Bushie, so I'm not suprised you do.

Answer 10

The Hump has it right also, but since we're on the subject... Some thoughts.

1)  New Orleans should not even rebuild that low/bad part of town. It's a cesspool below sea level in a hurricane area.

2)  Same goes for other cities that are at or below sea level.

3)  The mayor should be held at fault for most of the unpreparedness, remember all those people that could not leave and all those parked in a row buses under water?

4)  I may be labeled a "Liberal" but I do believe this is mostly New Orleans and Louisiana's problem not everyone else's!

...and another thing, why should someone in Pennsylvania pay for hurricanes in Louisiana or people in Ohio paying for tornadoes in Kansas or persons from Maine pay for mud slides in California? Why can't the state that has these problems deal with them there selves? If major natural disasters always happen in your particular state...move!

Answer 11

It is the inadequate response and recovery by FEMA that Bush is blamed for.  The director of FEMA (Michael Brown) was clearly not qualified to manage FEMA and was appointed because he is a personal friend of Bush's.  It was Michael Brown's incompetence coupled with Bush's tendency to engage in nepotism that places the blame for the botched Katrina Recovery effort squarely in the lap of the Bush Administration.

Answer 12

Its just because Bush is the president, that is why everything gets blamed on him. If Clinton was in office they would have blamed him for it too. Its just the price you pay to be the president. It really wasnt all Bush's fault, he had underlings who were supposed to do things that they didnt do. Bush could have told people where to go and what to do but who knows why he didnt? I surely have no idea. As for the flood gates, that would have been the States fault, not the Fed's fault, the State probably trying to save money said it was good enough and left it...

Answer 13

Bush is not to blame cause a natural disaster occurred.

I think people are saying he has not done a good job of helping katrina victims and to rebuild

Answer 14

I am not a Bush supporter, but Katrina relief is one thing he did correctly.

Many people who critize President for the slow response and relief and re-construction do not know or do not appreciate how long it takes to mobilize a project of this size so it will be effective.

There is alway room for improvement on any project of this scale.  It would not matter who was in power, it is an extremely difficult task to please everyone.

Good Job George.

Answer 15

Plain and simple that you understand, BUSH.

Answer 16

I don't hold Bush responsible for the flooding of New Orleans, or for the fact that the city and state did not provide evacuation for so many of their lower-class citizens.

What I blame Bush for is his poor reaction to the flood, when it happened. I blame him for staying on vacation another two days, while American citizens died of thirst stranded on an overpass. I blame him for appointing a buddy with no prior emergency management experience to head FEMA (and then praising him!) I hold him marginally to blame for ineffective oversight over the money that was then provided to assist the victims of Katrina.

Bush isn't to blame for all of it, by any means! But he's to blame for enough of it.