Quote Originally Posted by desslock
I guess you can blame everything on Bush. The mayor and city council have no responsibility. Neither does the state of Louisiana. That state's 8%+ sales tax and their state income tax and their flush oil and gas royalties could just never be used to shore up a civil engineering project for their own largest city. That is totally ridiculous. Much less it should be their responsibility to create a real plan in case a hurricane ever hit the city -- that is someone else's job.
Steve the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers handles the infrastructure of the nation's waterways, not local government. Why are you asking a local government to do the job of the federal government?

New Orleans does/did have a real plan for natural disaster, they always have, but when the government doesn't fund what you need, then what do you do?

Everything in New Orleans was handled exceptionally well before the disaster. People were notified to leave, local officials went door to door assisting people. Residents knew they could go to the Super Dome for shelter. After the disaster is when all hell broke loose. The city was underwater, they then had to rely on the Federal Government to bring in support. And here we are, still, days later, looking like a third world country in the Gulf Coast. We're an international embarrassment.