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Overlooking blame for KatrinaSpread the blame around far enough and no
one has to face the consequences
The House Report on Hurricane Katrina is finally out, and everybody from the White
House to local officials took the
blame.
How very nice. How democratic. How so politically correct. "We're all guilty, we all share blame." No one is going to be cashiered. They shouldn't get off that easy. The first thing I blame is the assumption that government exists to bail you out. This shows from everything from flood insurance to money for flood control, most of which was diverted into other projects. I blame lack of accountability. Billions were spent, but the levees were still unable to handle the stress. School buses sat unused until the flood waters engulfed them. Nobody was "in charge" until after disaster hit. I blame the rush to do the political thing afterwards instead of the right thing. New Orleans is going to spend at least 100 billion dollars in Federal funds, plus many tens of billions of private insurance funds, with almost no oversight. Given the history of Louisiana politics and New Orleans in particular, I will be very surprised if ten cents on the dollar is spent the way it should be. Most of all, I blame the Louisiana Governor and the New Orleans Mayor. Other cities, other states were hit by Katrina. Somehow they survived without being on the news every night for months. 
Posted: Wed - February 15, 2006 at 04:53 AM
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