Texas vs. Louisiana
I found this recently when looking through some blogs:
2 States, 22 Observations:
Things I have noticed while watching media coverage of the recent hurricanes.
1. Texas: Productive industrious state run by Republicans.
Louisiana: Government dependent welfare state run by Democrats.
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2. Texas: Residents take responsibility to protect and evacuate themselves.
Louisiana: Residents wait for government to protect and evacuate them.
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3. Texas: Local and state officials take responsibility for protecting their
citizens and property.
Louisiana: Local and state officials blame federal government for not protecting
their citizens and property.
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4. Texas: Command and control remains in place to preserve order.
Louisiana: Command and control collapses allowing lawlessness.
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5. Texas: Law enforcement officers remain on duty to protect city.
Louisiana: Law enforcement officers desert their posts to protect themselves.
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6. Texas: Local police watch for looting.
Louisiana: Local police participate in looting.
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7. Texas: Law and order remains in control, 8 looters tried it, 8 looters
arrested.
Louisiana: Anarchy and lawlessness breaks out, looters take over city, no
arrests, criminals with guns have to be shot by federal troops.
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8. Texas: Considerable damage caused by hurricane.
Louisiana: Considerable damage caused by looters.
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9. Texas: Flood barriers hold preventing cities from flooding.
Louisiana: Flood barriers fail due to lack of maintenance allowing city to
flood.
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10. Texas: Orderly evacuation away from threatened areas, few remain.
Louisiana: 25,000 fail to evacuate, are relocated to another flooded area.
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11. Texas: Citizens evacuate with personal 3 day supply of food and water.
Louisiana: Citizens fail to evacuate with 3 day supply of food and water, do
without it for the next 4 days.
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12. Texas: FEMA brings in tons of food and water for evacuees. State officials
provide accessible distribution points.
Louisiana: FEMA brings in tons of food and water for evacuees. State officials
prevent citizens from reaching distribution points and vice versa.
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13. Louisiana: Media focuses on poor blacks in need of assistance, blames Bush.
Texas: Media can't find poor blacks in need of assistance, looking for something
else to blame on Bush.
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14. Texas: Coastal cities suffer some infrastructure damage, Mayors tell
residents to stay away until ready for repopulation, no interference from
federal officials.
Louisiana: New Orleans is destroyed, Mayor asks residents to return home as
another hurricane approaches, has to be overruled by federal officials.
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15. Louisiana: Over 400 killed by storm, flooding and crime.
Texas: 24 killed in bus accident on highway during evacuation, no storm related
deaths.
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16. Texas: Jailed prisoners are relocated to other detention facilities outside
the storm area.
Louisiana: Jailed prisoners are set free to prey on city shops, residents, and
homes.
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17. Texas: Local and state officials work with FEMA and Red Cross in recovery
operations.
Louisiana: Local and state officials obstruct FEMA and Red Cross from aiding in
recovery operations.
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18. Texas: Local and state officials demonstrate leadership in managing disaster
areas.
Louisiana: Local and state officials fail to demonstrate leadership, require
federal government to manage disaster areas.
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19. Texas: Fuel deliveries can't keep up with demand, some run out of gas on
highway, need help from fuel tankers before storm arrives.
Louisiana: Motorists wait till storm hits and electrical power fails. Cars run
out of gas at gas stations that can't pump gas. Gas in underground tanks mixes
with flood waters.
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20. Texas: Mayors move citizens out of danger.
Louisiana: Mayor moves himself and family to Dallas.
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21. Texas: Mayors continue public service announcements and updates on
television with Governor's backing and support.
Louisiana: Mayor cusses, governor cries, senator threatens president with
violence on television, none of them have a clue what went wrong or who's
responsible.
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22. Louisiana: Democratic Senator says FEMA was slow in responding to 911 calls
from Louisiana citizens.
Texas: Republican Senator says "when you call 911, the phone doesn't ring in
Washington, it rings here at the local responders".
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What if state and local elected officials were forced to depend on themselves
and their own resources instead of calling for help from the federal government?
Texas cities would be back up and running in a few days.
Louisiana cities would still be under water next month.
Republicans call for action, Democrats call for help.
What party will you be voting for in the next election?
posted by David @ 7:58 AM
4 comments
4 Comments:
Most of those statements are innaccurate, all of the statements are imcomplete, many are absolute falsehoods, and some don't make any sense. You can't compare the two hurricanes, you can't compare Louisiana's flooding issue to anything else, the Houston evacuation was an unmitigated disaster, those "left behind" in N.O. lived hand to mouth and couldn't afford to stock up or drive out of the city. I could go line by line and refute your claims but there's no need. The Chief of Homeland Security has apologized for the failures of the Federal Government. This post is fringe partisan B.S. Be part of the solution, don't add to the problem.
The statements that you have made Mincus are incredibly stupid and I would personally have been ashamed to make them myself. I understand you found this somewhere else, but you did choose to put it up as well. As the other person who responded said, I believe you are contributing to the problem as well.
Haha. Notice how these are all generalizations. Sure you could go through each and give an example of how the statement is wrong, but in GENERAL they are true. Just because you don't like what they are saying doesn't mean they are wrong. Also, notice the fact that I added none of my own comments. I could have gone into depth about how I believed this to be true, and tied it all into politics, but I didn't. Please just lighten up. You are so quick to face the slightest bit of information which goes against what you believe, its not even funny. Yet, I see countless examples of things like this done on bush (the iraq war, economy, etc). Hell, kerry's entire campaign was based on "incomplete statements." Great example: one of kerry's biggest "selling points" was the fact that the US is not creating enough jobs. Interesting how that is the only number he provided on the economy during his entire campaign. Mabye thats because all of the other numbers on the economy were showing steady growth and improvement. Now tell me about getting half the story. And the fact that you rush to judgement and call me "part of the problem" is utterly ridiculous.
Exact reason I posted this to my blog... it's that glass half empty/half full thing...
The problem in New Orleans though was entitlement. People thought they'd sit and wait, for their welfare checks instead of getting out. Notice all the cars that were flooded!!! Poor people can drive!!! ( I am sounding heartless)
As an American, you aren't entitled to anything but to pay taxes!
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