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Originally Posted by Dylan I'm not necissarily opposed to having a strong federal government, as long as it stays out of my private life.
I don't see getting bailed out of a flood/hurricaine/tornado/whatever as part of my private life. | Isn't it part of your "private life" if a Federal Agent - FEMA or otherwise - comes into your house and says, "You ARE leaving, and you're leaving RIGHT NOW - whether you like it or not."?
Again... I'm not defending FEMA, nor excusing their ineptitude in the New Orleans debacle. But what most people expect them to have done would have been micromanagement. And that is NOT building on the principles of the Constitution. | FEMA wasn't supposed to do that. I was under the impression that most of the disaster was the result of the federal government not paying to fix the levies, and then no one paying for buses so the poor people who don't own cars could get out of town.
I also don't think it's time to quibble about the principles of the Constitution when your home and all of your posessions may be swept away. | My point about the constitution was ONLY that it is there to help protect state's rights.
As for New Orleans... The busses were available to evacuate the people would couldn't get out of the city. The city has how many Transit bus drivers?
Nagin COULD HAVE, and SHOULD HAVE used those busses to evacuate people. Period.
Had Nagin done that, FEMA would STILL have screwed up. But people wouldn't have died, because they would have been out of the flood. |