Shawn wrote:
> Katrina was a cluster (you know what) all the way around, but you can
> sure pin a lot of blame on chocolate Nagin and the worthless governor
> and the decades of totally corrupt Louisana government that had
> diverted many millions of dollars from levee enforcement to other
> projects or their pockets, and you can blame the environmentalists
> that stopped the levee re-enforcement that the army corp of engineers
> were going to do and you can place some blame on FEMA, but FEMA is
> not a first responder, it isn't their duty, they are there for backup
> and reinforcement.  The levee's should have been designed for Cat 6,
> the very idea that you have a major city underwater basically and
> relying on walls only rated at Cat 3 is criminal.  Taking away all
> the original foliage that acted as storm surge in the past didn't help
either.

Translation:
The natural disaster which caused $100B in damage wasn't handled well.  But
an outsider can easily see the failure of the federal government can be
absolved by pointing fingers at the corrupt local government who managed to
sneak away millions of dollars completely from under the noses of the sin
free state and federal government personnel who could never have spotted it
being done or do anything about it.

Additionally, all those tree huggers, who took the only action they could
legally take in trying to stop the further destruction of the natural
resources which would have lessened the impact of this disaster, are
certainly at fault too, and should be publicly flogged as a further
distraction for FEMA's mishandling of the situation.

But, to be fair, we'll assume that some of the failures of FEMA are actually
FEMA's fault, but only a little, and not really a big little, only a little
little, because, well, you know, it's not FEMA's job to do FEMA's job.

Plus, there's the problem that Monday Morning Quarterback Doctrine states
clearly that after a structure has failed one must point out it wasn't
designed or built properly.  Oh, and of course, the stuff those tree huggers
were saying might have been accurate and nobody listened, which incidentally
means it's even MORE their fault.

Um, yeah.  I was gonna ask WTF, but then I remembered who posted the
response I'm mocking.

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