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Curtis L. Russell
Guest
On Mon, 05 Sep 2005 05:27:35 GMT, "IMKen" <[email protected]> wrote:
>With
>the exception of those too crippled to move, all were responsible for their
>situation but now we are funding to the tune of billions, their rescue and
>maintenance for an unknown period of time that could be the remainder of
>their lives.
There were some that went to the evacuation points and no
transportation came. This was before the point of Federal intervention
and was evidently primarily due to the Mayor's failure to commandeer
local transport before the storm hit. Some people intended to leave
and did not get the help they needed.
I will give the caveat that no one else seems to want to apply. I'm
going on the news reports as reported in either the Washington Post,
the Washington Times, the Baltimore Sun or (rarely) the Annapolis
Capital. I give almost zero credence to ten and twenty second
reporting on TV, reporting I know to get the late football games
incorrect, reporting molded to ratings even more so than newspapers.
But the infrastructure that would provide much of the winnowing of
fact from rumor and fiction is also probably severely damaged and what
is left is probably heavily politicized. Having read the above in
three newspapers might only mean that I read three rewrites of the
same original report.
Curtis L. Russell
Odenton, MD (USA)
Just someone on two wheels...
>With
>the exception of those too crippled to move, all were responsible for their
>situation but now we are funding to the tune of billions, their rescue and
>maintenance for an unknown period of time that could be the remainder of
>their lives.
There were some that went to the evacuation points and no
transportation came. This was before the point of Federal intervention
and was evidently primarily due to the Mayor's failure to commandeer
local transport before the storm hit. Some people intended to leave
and did not get the help they needed.
I will give the caveat that no one else seems to want to apply. I'm
going on the news reports as reported in either the Washington Post,
the Washington Times, the Baltimore Sun or (rarely) the Annapolis
Capital. I give almost zero credence to ten and twenty second
reporting on TV, reporting I know to get the late football games
incorrect, reporting molded to ratings even more so than newspapers.
But the infrastructure that would provide much of the winnowing of
fact from rumor and fiction is also probably severely damaged and what
is left is probably heavily politicized. Having read the above in
three newspapers might only mean that I read three rewrites of the
same original report.
Curtis L. Russell
Odenton, MD (USA)
Just someone on two wheels...