Has any besides myself begun to wonder what in the world is happening in New Orleans? There seems to be a steady stream of news about private citizens offering huge amounts of support and goods (food, water, gasoline, shelter, communication systems, medical support, medicines, boats for evacuation, transportation out of there, etc.) which keeps getting turned down by the powers that are in "control" of the situation. I am beginning to wonder how there could be that much incompetence on such a large and ongoing scale. I understand that nobody was prepared (although they should have been), and that there is a great deal of confusion (once again, a bit of planning would have helped), but I don't understand the refusal to accept aid when it is right there at hand.
I am finding it impossible to convince myself that it is all just because of stupidity. It is beginning to look that there is something more, something political, going on. One possibility is that the ones in control (FEMA??) are using this as a power play to get more funding, more power and to show how important their functions are. If the private sector (citizens, charitable organizations and businesses) can do what is needed to respond to the emergency, then it is obviously not so important that the big government bureaucracies be in place to do that.
I have no actual information about what is going on and why it is so bad, but I am getting suspicious that politics has gotten in the middle of the relief effort. If so, that is really a terrible thing. It adds fuel to the question of who is the government supporting - us or them?
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