Wednesday, September 07, 2005

Speaking of spin...

At the height of the hurricane disaster, over 1,000 trained firefighters from Texas, Utah, and around the nation showed up to do urgent search and rescue work in Louisiana -- and were sidelined into an Atlanta conference room to get sexual harassment training and learn how to hand out fliers with FEMA's 800 number (1-800-SCREWUP)
(whoops, no, wait -- that's 1-800-621-FEMA).

The FEMA run by Bush's hand-picked incompetent cronies insisted to the frustrated emergency workers that community relations was a priority.

Meanwhile desperate people were still trapped in flooded attics.

As one Texas firefighter noted, "It's a misallocation of resources. Completely."

A perfect epitaph for the Bush administration, but carved on the tombstones of those who died because of its negligence and incompetence.

On Monday morning, a team of 50 firefighters was finally deployed for action, and quickly "ushered onto a flight headed for Louisiana. The crew's first assignment: to stand beside President Bush as he tours devastated areas."

The Master of Diaster, spinning misallocation of resources into a photo op to show how many resources were on hand.

The victims must be spinning in their graves -- or will be once their bodies are found and buried.

(Read the full article in the Salt Lake Tribune)

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