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Post by ltcastle on Sept 9, 2005 15:55:03 GMT -4
There has been a lot of speculation about why the United States Government was slow to respond to the devestation caused by hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.
Many, such as NBC nightly news's Brian Williams, have expressed the belief that the relief effort was slow to start because New Orleans is a "poor" city and that if it was a city like New York or Portland, the government response would have been greater and much sooner. A few have even claimed that the poor response was because New Orleans was a predominantly black city.
I do not believe these rumors. I think that the government's delayed response was due more to poor disaster preparation and a lack of readyness in government organizations like FEMA. According to Michael Brown, the director of FEMA, the government didn't even know about all the people seeking shelter in the superdome until days after the hurricane.
There is also the lack of leadership at the top, President Bush didn't even end his vacation at first, and when he finally did he didn't make it to New Orleans for something like 3 or 4 days.
I was just wondering what everybody thought about all this.
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