The gross negligence displayed by all levels of government is astounding. Why didnt the mayor use these busses to assist in pre-hurricane evacs? Why werent they at least positioned to help out afterwards?!
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Good thing the mayor didnt use these busses....
by Specop_007 » Fri 02 Sep 2005, 21:43:22
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Re: Good thing the mayor didnt use these busses....
by Hegel » Fri 02 Sep 2005, 21:59:59
Hmm, that is indeed intriguing. 
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Re: Good thing the mayor didnt use these busses....
by mgibbons19 » Fri 02 Sep 2005, 22:00:49
With an oil slick fanning out from the lot of them.
Funny thing is, even the smallest government libertarian would agree that along with military defense, and perhaps infrastructure development, disaster preparedness and relief are just the sort of few things a government should do.
So these incompetents have failed at the most limited definition of government possible.
Funny thing is, even the smallest government libertarian would agree that along with military defense, and perhaps infrastructure development, disaster preparedness and relief are just the sort of few things a government should do.
So these incompetents have failed at the most limited definition of government possible.
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Re: Good thing the mayor didnt use these busses....
by k_semler » Fri 02 Sep 2005, 22:33:31
I counted 236 busses, assuming that they are each 40 passenger busses, (and they probably are, cause NO is huge), that would mean that 9440 people could have been evacuated in ONE TRIP. Assuming that each bus could make 3 trips, that would mean that 28,320 people are needlessly stranded due to government incompitence. This is a testament to the "Government will save us!", and "Trust the Government to do what is best!", that so many people on this board and in meat space seem to live by. SOCIALISM DOES NOT WORK! IF YOU CAN"T SURVIVE ON YOUR OWN YOU ARE FUCKED!! If I distrust the government any more, then I will start being paranoid and looking out my windows for the white suburbans!
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Re: Good thing the mayor didnt use these busses....
by Specop_007 » Fri 02 Sep 2005, 22:45:56
Good job on the math K_Sem.
Now think about this. Given the estimates of 100,000 that didnt evac, the mayor could have used those busses and in 10 trips evacuated EVERYONE from the city.
But, rather then be a good mayor, rather then be a LEADER he sits back and bitches and whines about what "The government isnt doing"
HELLO!!! MCFLY!!! YOU are the government!!!
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Now think about this. Given the estimates of 100,000 that didnt evac, the mayor could have used those busses and in 10 trips evacuated EVERYONE from the city.
But, rather then be a good mayor, rather then be a LEADER he sits back and bitches and whines about what "The government isnt doing"
HELLO!!! MCFLY!!! YOU are the government!!!
Amazed by the finger pointing mayor,
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Re: Good thing the mayor didnt use these busses....
by Schweinshaxe » Fri 02 Sep 2005, 23:06:35
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mgibbons19', 'F')unny thing is, even the smallest government libertarian would agree that along with military defense, and perhaps infrastructure development, disaster preparedness and relief are just the sort of few things a government should do.
It depends. What do you mean when you say "government"?
If you mean a federal entity consisting of useless and corrupt assholes, then I definitely don't agree. If you mean an entity consisting of your friends and friends of your friends working on a local level, then I agree.
The people can and will take care of, and help it's own people if such disasters as Katrina happens if only the people were left alone by the governments to decide themselves what's best for them. A federal government can and will not, because it's too busy wasting your money on beaurocracy. Trust your government and you'll end up like the people in NO who are dying from thirst, waiting for help that will never come.
We are being told that we can and should trust our governments. I say that's wrong. Trust noone else but yourself and your friends! If you don't have friends, make some fast because this event has proven that if you trust your government, you'll die alone.
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Re: Good thing the mayor didnt use these busses....
by Bedevere » Sat 03 Sep 2005, 13:11:24
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('k_semler', 'S')OCIALISM DOES NOT WORK! IF YOU CAN"T SURVIVE ON YOUR OWN YOU ARE FUCKED!!
Socialism works in a lot of places. The US has always been politically to the right anyway so I don't see how you logically came to that conclusion.
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Re: Good thing the mayor didnt use these busses....
by Ercole » Sat 03 Sep 2005, 13:44:06
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Bedevere', 'S')ocialism works in a lot of places.
Like ?
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