MIght I suggest that it is the hypersensitivity of indivuduals like yourself who can’t resist even the most imaginary of opportunities to accuse others of insensitivity (and “corruption”) which is the true source of the ludicrous and dangerous PC attitude so correctly allusded to in the segment of your latest post which actually makes any sense. That is truly a personal failing which when codified into our national laws is bearing such bitter fruit as we see on display in places like NOLA.

Yeah, It takes a genius like yourself to read between the lines of the post and divine that I meant to say that everyone down in NOLA DESERVED their fate. And no, I had not heard of Katrina. Please inform us about this phenomenon.

I went to med school in NOLA and experienced first hand the endemic corruption of the culture. When a state runs David Duke vs Edwin Edwards for the gubernatorial seat, there is something deeply wrong. When a city re-elects an incompetent, corrupt buffoon like Ray Nagin, there is something deeply wrong. Why is it that the Gulf Coast of Mississippi fared so much better than Louisiana in the Katrina (oh there’s THAT word again) fiasco? Could it be becuase of competent leadership like Haley Barbour’s??

Nah, it’s cuz of people like me heaping scorn on innocents in NOLA. Yeah, that’s the ticket.

And, you call THEM corrupt?

Regarding the first post, I was working in the hurricane damaged area by the day after landfall. The medical facility in which I volunteered accepted services from volunteers from other states as long as they had a copy of their liscense and picture ID. 3 or 4 days after landfall, the governor issued a proclomation making that practice, already being applied by facility leaders with common sense, official and also extended the states liability protection to those in state operated activities. I had no malpractice coverage until that occured but worked anyway as I felt is reasonable for me to stick my neck out as I knew that this would only work to the degree that people were willing to do so.

It was my observation that the medical response was most efficient (although not sufficient) the first few days while providers were on their own to improvise.

Then the feds showed up. They brought a lot of resources–and a lot of rules and obstructions came with them. By 5 or 6 days after landfall, the process for credentialling out-of-state providers had gone from 30 seconds, to something much more involved. By a few weeks out, the obstuctioning paperwork became palpably pervasive. Within a few more weeks, the beurocracy itself, and its institutional objectives had displaced the ostensible task of providing relief as the controling factor throughout.

This is NOT the fault of FEMA, or the rest of the US Government. Strictly the incompetence of ‘chocolate’ Nagin and his band of thieves. And then he has the guts to sue the rest of the US Taxpayers for $77-BILLION with a -B dollars, since we taxpayers haven’t done enough.

Screw them. The US Government should not spend one more cent on NOLA, until they remove the incompetence they call a government.