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Re: 300+ school buses were right there (3.00 / 1)

Let's assume the Mayor had the authority to comandeer the buses. Let's also assume he had done FEMA's job of establishing centralized locations where citizens of New Orleans could board the buses.

300 buses would have held, let's be generous and say 50 people per bus for a total of 1,500 people. Where would he tell the bus drivers to take them?

Where would he get another 3,000 busses and drivers? Where would he tell the bus drivers to go?

There is a good reason they call them national disasters wacko.

Compare the response of Bush's FEMA to the response of Clinton's FEMA after 9/11 and after Hurricane Dennis.

Now that Bush has neutered FEMA, we see the results of Bush's theory of governance as well as his incompetence.

by Gary Boatwright on Sat Sep 03, 2005 at 11:56:12 PM EST
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Re: 300+ school buses were right there (none / 0)

Jabbar Gibson got 50 to 70 people aboard his bus, and others have said there are over 200 buses in the photo of the flooded buses. Let's say 60 people per bus X 200 buses = 12,000 people.

I might be wrong about this, but I believe the Red Cross had already opened shelters about 60 miles north of N.O.

Anyone who'd wonder whether they had the right to comandeer a bus in a situation like this has absolutely no right to any position of authority.

by TheLonewackoBlog on Sun Sep 04, 2005 at 01:27:37 AM EST
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Re: 300+ school buses were right there (none / 0)

They were better off in the shelter because it survived the storm and the federal government will send food and water to support them once the storm has passed.  They could do this because they can have the trucks, the national guard, FEMA, and the Red Corss enter the city the same way the evacuation buses did two days prior to the real arrival of help on Friday.  Who would drive the  buses?  The bus drivers went out of town with their family.  The bus issue is a non issue.  Had those buses not been shown you would find a series of SUVs parked in a dealership lot and say the same thing.  The best thing the local government did was to tell people to get to that shelter.  The worst thing they did was count on George F W Bush and his hatchlings, I mean henchmen, I mean...
"So this is how liberty dies...to thunderous applause." Padme, Star Wars Episode III
by jrflorida on Sun Sep 04, 2005 at 01:46:47 AM EST
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Re: 300+ school buses were right there (none / 0)

And there would still be how many thousands of people still in the city, still in the Superdome?  How many tens of thousands would still be there, would still have been dieing, would still have been suffering the worst humiliation in the history of this country.  You know you are wrong.  Go look in the mirror, take your time.
"So this is how liberty dies...to thunderous applause." Padme, Star Wars Episode III
by jrflorida on Sun Sep 04, 2005 at 01:48:57 AM EST
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Re: 300+ school buses were right there (none / 0)

Anyone who'd wonder whether they had the right to comandeer a bus in a situation like this has absolutely no right to any position of authority.

Oh yeah. Jabbar Gibson. That's the kid they were talking about pressing felony grand theft charges against.

So let's see. The Mayor could have ordered the bus company to do what? Call up the bus drivers and tell them to forget about their families and their evacuation plans, because they had to report to work?

If I recall nearly 50% of the New Orleans police force refused to show up for work. They were probably evacuating their families or something stupid like that. The owner of the bus company probably would have said "Sure thing Mayor. You can have my buses. Here's the keys and I'll call up the bus drivers personally, because I can't get any of my clerical workers to come into work to call the bus drivers to come into work."

Yeah, that's a brilliant plan. Why didn't the Mayor think of that? Maybe he's not batshit crazy as TheLonewacko.

When did the Red Cross set up shelters? Before Hurrican Katrina hit? How many people did their shelters hold? Would they have been able to feed and shelter 12,000 people? Those are some pretty big shelters to set up on speculation.

I don't suppose you have a link to the conclusion that you "could be wrong about." How about maybe you're just making shit up?

What else would you expect from a troll bullshit artist who is bat shit crazy?

by Gary Boatwright on Sun Sep 04, 2005 at 02:12:52 AM EST
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Re: 300+ school buses were right there (none / 0)

Don't forget how long it takes to fill those buses.  How long has it taken to evacuate the peopl ein the Superdome?  Now imagine adding in the time it takes for the people to not line up after having been seeted at the Superdome but instead having to walk from their homes, if they chose to do it.  These people thought they could ride it out in their third floor apartment.  And they were probable right about the storm.  Its the aftermath that became the problem.  For those people to get out, for all of them to load up on buses with their wheelchairs and oxygen tanks, with their sick children, with their feeble grandmothers, that storm was still a Category 2 and potentially destined for the Texas - Mexico border.  Not that the tracking didn't pan out but you can't spend that kind of money and risk lives doing it with the storm that far out.  This bus theory is 20-20 hindsight and with a really nice pair of rose colored glasses on.  Consider your argument completely thrashed.
"So this is how liberty dies...to thunderous applause." Padme, Star Wars Episode III
by jrflorida on Sun Sep 04, 2005 at 02:31:13 AM EST
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Does your standard apply to Bush? (none / 0)

Anyone who'd wonder whether they had the right to comandeer a bus in a situation like this has absolutely no right to any position of authority.

Exactly what do you think Bush's responsibility is in this whole picture? What responsibility does the President of the United States have in a situation like this?

I mean aside from eating cake and playing the banjo while New Orleans drowns.

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by Gary Boatwright on Sun Sep 04, 2005 at 02:55:02 AM EST
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