Friday, September 02, 2005
Lessons of Katrina
Hurricane Katrina has inflicted tremendous pain upon Gulf Coast residents, as well as their loved ones.
And while subsequent events have raised more questions than they have produced solutions, there is a powerful lesson in all of this:
And while subsequent events have raised more questions than they have produced solutions, there is a powerful lesson in all of this:
"There's plenty of blame to go around -- the White House, Congress, federal
agencies, local governments, police and even residents of the Gulf Coast who
refused orders to evacuate. But all the finger-pointing misses the point:
Politicians and the people they lead too often ignore danger signs until a
crisis hits."source: AP
I absolutely, positively, could not have said it better. This is exactly the kind of straight-forward, pragmatic, analysis that Democracy 2 pOintzero embraces.
