Posted by KaraS on September 16, 2005, at 1:44:32
In reply to Re: Poll - 52% think Katrina relief not handled well, posted by Meri-Tuuli on September 12, 2005, at 5:23:36
I don't have the energy right now to get into the big questions about the various forms of government but I would like to address responses to my original question.
If some of you here don't believe that the slow response in New Orleans didn't have to do with skin color, then would you agree that it had anything to do with class and status? I do agree that a lot of the problem was bureaucracy and a lack of leadership but still I can't imagine rich Republican campaign contributors ever being locked down in a Superdome for days without food, water or sanitation. They'd be on their cell phones with their political connections and their lawyers and things would have started to change quickly. If those type of people were involved here then Bush would have cancelled his fund raising meetings in San Diego and flown in to New Orleans immediately and personally gotten involved in getting them out of there.
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