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I'm not a "son". I saw a quote around here of about 1500 school buses in and around New Orleans. That sounds about right. Dallas Independent School district has over 2000. 50 people to a bus, times 2000 is 100,000 people that would have gotten out. Since the buses were all running on Friday hauling kids back and forth to school, it is a safe bet that somebody knew where the damned keys were. If not, there is this other thing called hot wiriing that works real well. I'm willing ot bet one of the duties of the regular school bus drivers is to fill them up before they are parked on the weekends. If not, drive them to where they are usually fueled, and get them filled up, where ever that is. To find drivers, ask for volunteers, starting among the police officers and school officials. Ask local trucking companies if they have any drivers to volunteer. Send out a public service announcement asking for qualified volunteers. Somebody was driving each and every one of those damned buses on Friday. Even if only a handful of buses made it out, that would have been more than none from not making ANY attempt to get them out. The city was ordered evacuated on Saturday - 48 hours. That's one hell of a long commercial break. Yes, the roads were jammed. But people on the roads made it out. People without cars or financial means to get out on their own would have made it out, too. If anybody had given a damn to get them out. Unfortunately for the people who were left to die, they had someone with a defeatist mind set like yours doing the planning for them.

Yeah, your defeatist mind set is far more realistic. It just can't be done, so don't even bother. It ain't no big deal if 10 or 15 thousand people die.

1.3 million people were not in need of a way to get out of the city. The evacuation started on Saturday morning. The storm did not make landfall until Monday morning. That's 48 hours. That's not a "few hours". That's two days.

YES. They cannot get the delivery trucks down roads that are under water and across bridges that are collapsed. They would not have problems trucking supplies into Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, or any of the other cities that are now home to refugees. That doesn't even include the outpouring of support that is coming from the local communities, which has no impediment of federal bureaucracy to get food and water to the refugees. I don't know how it is going in the other cities, but Dallas already had a stadium parking lot full of food, clothes and water for the refugees as of yesterday afternoon. People are opening up their homes to refugees and taking them in. A state of emergency has already been declared for Texas, which means the federal government will eventually catch up to the refugees. It would have happened a lot sooner and with more efficiency if they were not trying to fish so many people out of the disaster area, if it were only a few hundred instead of 10s of thousands.

Why don't you get real? It was more than feasible to get people out of there who didn't have the personal means to do so. There was time. There was money. There were resources. There were also people in charge with defeatist atbreastudes like yours. And that is why 10s of thousands were literally left to die.

No. The reality is that the refugees who arrived in Dallas yesterday had hot meals and showers yesterday. Not from the federal government that is providing the so-called relief in New Orleans. From the American community.

Your position very clearly indicates a defeatist atbreastude that can only be matched by Washington DC or third world countries. You are the one with all the trust and faith in the government to provide relief to the thousands that were left to die by the same bureaucracy. I have no such faith or trust in government. Certainly not in light of the obscenity that is New Orleans and what has been done to those people who were left there by the government you have so much faith in.

Why don't you follow the conversation? 1.3 million people did not need government buttistance to evacuate. The government made no effort to get those people out of there. They did not lift a finger to save a single life. They left 10s of thousands of people to die. The government had the time. The government had the money. The government had the resouces. The government had the authority. The government was loaded to the gills with defeatist atbreastudes like yours that have cost thousands of lives unnecessarily. It is obscene.