The Charlie Foxtrot down South: Heads should roll

[Skinny Shooter]

It's becoming increasingly difficult to not monday morning quarterback the decisions made before and after Katrina but...

As a volunteer EMT, I know that pre-planning is essential for mass disaster scenarios.

Just to get started, our Homeland Security director, FEMA director, 2 state governors and a certain mayor should lose their jobs effective immediately .
Everyone wants to cry foul when the Feds move in and what about State's rights. Well it appears that went right out the window this time...

Why didn't the governors in the affected states plan for mass evacuations of people from their coast who didn't own vehicles?

Why wasn't the military put on alert when the Cat 5 hurricane was aiming for New Orleans to immediately move supplies via ground and air drops to affected peoples?

Our government has the material and physical resources and there is no excuse for the delay that we have been seeing in the aftermath. We used to have the ability to fight two major wars at once. Makes me wonder if we have lost that ability and that is why there is a delay in moving supplies.

Why weren't area school buses used for car-less people to evacuate New Orleans. Is there a rail system in the area? trains can move alot of folks.

If I hear one more "person in charge" say how hard it is to reach the victims, I'm gonna reach thru the tele and box his ears a bit. We do have something called an airdrop. The air force is pretty good at that stuff in other countries. It should be much easier logistically to get it done here.

Why are people being denied the right to leave the affected area and get to safe ground? The military is turning them back. I don't want to go conspiratorial but this sounds like something I've heard in the past when FEMA gets involved in a national disaster.
If you want to leave, you should be left alone.

Am surprised that people down there haven't revolted yet. they are really being put thru the wringer by the people in charge.

What good will it do having oil released from our national reserve if we don't have the refineries to process it? Am I missing something?

I can go on but this shows how ill-prepared we are for a major incident.

If I'm off-base and or wrong on what I wrote, set me straight because the handling of this disaster has me a bit upset.