How sad to see a city left to it's own devices to deal with such a catastrophe, although it seems to be doing a superhuman job. However, it is up to the National Guard to help in these situations, but they are "building infrastructure" in Iraq. When will our tax money for the National Guard help our own people again, especially with our own infrastructure collapsing?
2007-08-01 21:37:05 · 12 answers · asked by healing wings 5 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
it will be just like Catrina .you need to put in a requesition and it will go up for congressional vote then it will need to go before the FEMA people and then if their is available manpower they will let you know if help is comming in a few months.
2007-08-01 21:43:27 · answer #1 · answered by old fart 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Take a better look around Bub, there was Two Black hawk helicopters sitting in the lanes of the other bridge waiting for people to transport.
Where is the National guard, about ten thousand miles away in Iraq, where the heck do you think they are. and, what's the National guard going to do the Fire departments and rescue units that are highly trained can't do, along with the police departments.
By the way, why don't you join some organization that aides in disasters like this, I'm sure they could use help from people like you that are doing all this crying.
2007-08-02 07:01:36 · answer #2 · answered by cowboydoc 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Exactly! Why just the other day the wind blew my lawn chair over and I was thinking....where is the National Guard when I need them?!
54% of the Federal Budget goes to pay for Social Security, Medicade, Medicare, and welfare.
The next largest expense? You guessed it....DOT.
Wake up, the national guard is activated on request of the Governer of the state. The STATE not the federal government provides the primary funding and resources for infrastructure. Education is the responsiblity of the STATE not the federal government. We need to start remembering that all politics are local, and we can't sit on our hands and wait for the federal government to come and do everything for us, we have to do it for ourselves. Hold your local politicians responsible for things like this. Perhaps if your liberal congressional representation would have added some earmarks for funding for a new bridge instead of peanut storage in GA this problem would not exist.
2007-08-03 08:30:07 · answer #3 · answered by joemerchant26 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would take a request or an order from Gov. Pawlenty to activate the National Guard for assistance in this situation. Bone-heads like most of you don't realize this because you are so hung up on blaming everyone else for your problems. Bush didn't cause this or Katrina (Your knucklehead N.O. mayor and LA govenor did this) I'm not crazy about this situation in Iraq and the way things are going either, but I still support our government. I am proud to say that the emergency services personnel in this state are among the best, and if help was needed, they would ask. Spend your time helping the situation, go donate blood, and say a prayer for those involved!!
2007-08-02 06:13:22 · answer #4 · answered by Brett C 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
He's right why spend trillions in Iraq to rebuild their infra structure when our own is so badly deteriorated and is now beginning to collapse? To all that oppose changing the direction the funds are going, I hope your one of the victims in the very next collapse, because it would serve you right for not supporting a just cause!
2007-08-02 09:41:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't just stop with Iraq, 60 billion in defense contracts to rebuild infrasture, a president that tout's this as a sign of success. We are 25th in the world education rating and yet we are more concerned with money for Iraq , Afghanastan, japan, mexico, gutamala, nicaragua, most of africa and parts of the former soviet union. Congress and the president consider it prudent to cut state spending for education and for Washington DC that gets it's funding directly for congress all the while right outside the window of the office they are signing the funding for foreign countries washington dc students are getting ready to go to school without AC or even the text books they need for 2007-08 school year.
2007-08-02 05:23:07 · answer #6 · answered by Ms Bowbow 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I agree, and to think how many bridges older then this 1 in USA that may be in worse condition's are waiting to fall,
while Our Government are "building infrastructure" in Iraq and cutting funds for road repairs, schools, health care & other programs for here at home...
2007-08-02 05:27:25 · answer #7 · answered by msmomofmany 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Congratulations!!!!! I was wondering how long it was going to take before the bridge collapse somehow morphed into being Bush's fault.
This is the first one I have seen. It is a stretch but you pulled it off man.
Actually I think the real reason there is no help coming is because it is Minneapolis. We all know hat Bush does not care about white people.
I hope that when this is all over that Minneapolis can remain a vanilla city.
2007-08-02 05:33:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
If anyobody thinks that any Yanls are building infrastructure in Iraq the brainwashing is working. They are killing Arabs: period.
2007-08-06 01:32:27 · answer #9 · answered by i_am_the_fig 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Totally agree with the asker! Although i didn't pay any tax,since i am not American.
2007-08-02 04:46:58 · answer #10 · answered by smarttany 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋