[Rhodes22-list] Katrina Update

[Joseph Hadzima]

Originally, I thought the problem was that there were TOO
MANNY people in govenment attempting to be leaders - sort
of too many cooks!  I recall one Senator calling for an
investigation because FEMA just reacted, and got crusie
ships as temporary housing for people, and not get bids
first (this was within a week after Katrina made landfall)!
Anyone recall how long it took for OUR government to start
spending money and people power on other investigations and
hearings?  There was lot of flack over the $2,000 debit
cards, and who was given the initial contracts. Who is left
to do the work if everyone is leading?  Next time I guess
we need to declare Marshall Law, and just let all the
King's men take care of it.

Yes, when the leardership isn't interested, things just
don't get done.  I even heard on TV during a fund raiser,
that Bush hates black people!  Since he's at the top of the
government and so popular these days, is that why everyone
in the entire government is following his lead and dragging
their feet?

:^)



--- DCLewis1 at aol.com wrote:

>  
> In a message dated 1/30/2007 8:07:19 A.M. Eastern
> Standard Time,  
> flybrad at gmail.com writes:
> 
> "It  shows the difference between the private sector and
> the public  sector,"
> says Harold "Buz" Olsen, chief administrative officer of
> Bay St.  Louis
> 
> 
>  
> This is a cop out; the problem is a lack of competent and
> concerned  
> leadership, pure and simple.  The President of the United
> States can pound  the table 
> and make it happen as can many lesser luminaries.   The 
> problem is, they just 
> don't care.  The public sector can do it, but they  have
> to want to, and the 
> way you make them want to is to hold an agency head 
> accountable.  Which 
> agency head has been put on report for poor performance 
> in rebuilding?  I can't 
> think of anyone.   The rebuilding has  been "business as
> usual"  because this 
> Administration sees it as just  one more thing to be done
> among many - there's 
> no urgency.
>  
> Dave
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