Posted by gromit on September 27, 2005, at 18:06:26
In reply to Re: Poll - 52% think Katrina relief not handled we » gromit, posted by KaraS on September 26, 2005, at 14:42:35
> I only partially agree that if the population involved were wealthy white people who included some major contributors to Bush or the Republican party that we would have seen the Three Stooges there 3 days earlier. I think we would still have seen plenty of disorganization but I also think that we wouldn't have seen some of the bureaucratic hold-ups of supplies that we saw this time. I believe that the high level connections would have gotten personally involved earlier to move those supplies in and break through the bureaucracy. These poor people in New Orleans had no powerful advocates on the outside working on their behalf.
You're probably right, and some of the stuff is mind boggling. Here is some desperately needed water, what only FEMA personel can unload the trucks? You won't be able to get to it for few days? Where was the person high up with some common sense and the cajones to say "you know what, screw it, give these people some water, I'll take the flack if it comes". And that same kind of thing over and over, it's infuriating.
I agree with you, if it were a bunch of rich white people those kinds of things wouldn't have happened. If it were a bunch of poor white people I believe it would have been no different. I don't buy racism as federal policy but it is possible I don't believe it because it hasn't happened to me.
> After I started this thread I realized that not necessarily 48% of the people polled were approving the way things were handled because a sizeable percentage could have had no opinion. Still, it's not a very good commentary on the results.No, that was my brain f*rt, you never said 48% thought it was handled well. I'll state it a different way, only 52% of Americans thought it was handled badly! Who are these people?
> 20% of Americans thinking that the sun revolves around the earth is very scary. It's even scarier that many of them vote.I'm thinking that most of them vote.
Rick
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