It’s been just about two weeks now since Katrina hit the United States. An untold number of deaths, as the water in New Orleans is still flooding the city, leaving countless bodies still submerged. The cost for cleanup and recovery is currently $300 billion, but that’s $100 million more than the estimate only 2 days ago. Pledged donations from foreign nations are plentiful and aid from many countries was even turned away.
What have we learned?
- Doesn’t expect any evacuation plan to work as designed.
- Do not put 100% trust in anything the Government tells you.
- FEMA failed the American people.
- Bush failed the American people.
- People are animals; rapes, murders at the Superdome.
- Confusion at all levels of Government is rampant, and 4 years after 9/11 no advances in command and control architecture have been made.
- Thousands dead, 160,000 homes lost, and 400,000 jobs.
- September 11th damage covered 16 square blocks. Damage from Katrina is 90,000 square miles.
And topping this list, important enough to put here, is this: Firms with Bush Ties Snag Katrina Deals.
It makes me think of what my friend Rev. Goat just told me: ‘Let me say this before it goes any further; New Orleans didn’t die of natural causes, she was murdered.'”
That about says it all.