Our Wise Central Planners at Work
Jason Kuznicki on Sep 4th 2005 10:30 am |
The Red Cross is not being allowed into New Orleans. As Jon Mandle of Crooked Timber writes,
I am (once again) speechless – and literally trembling. How is it even conceivable that someone would think that relief operations would keep victims there – and that depriving them of emergency food and water would be the the extra little nudge that would convince them to get out?
If this were Sudan, perhaps, emergency food and water would convince everyone to stay put. But here? Please. These are Americans, and they all know perfectly well that things will be better for them in any other American city than New Orleans.
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You have got to be kidding me. This is beyond outrageous. Thanks for pointing this out, because I hadn’t seen reports on this anywhere else.
A lot of people don’t seem to understand the levee situation and keep expecting the water to recede. Some of them DO want to stay. This is not, of course, a sufficient reason not to provide food and water right now.
Jason,
I just read this at The Agitaor. Seems Walmart tried to diliver several truckloads of drinking water and were turned away by FEMA.
http://www.theagitator.com/archives/025272.php#025272
The outrage one feels at how this situation is being handled is indescribable.