This was in response to some Hurricane Katrina anti-Bush rant... when the City of New Orleans knew full well... hell, I remember emailing a few folks the night before (here in San Francisco, which is not hurricane land) that this was going to be very very very bad. And that's in my novice hurricane knowledge. Yet da Mayor Nagin didn't do anything... nor the governor to evacuate beforehand, nor get the word... all we got was why didn't the Feds cleanup the mess that we helped to make worse. Then that dumb city re-elected that fool. It was the quickest excuse to dogpile on Bush, which is fine, but the most accountability should of been held with the city/state.... which knew better.

Overall, it's a socialist vs capitalistic outlook... the Fed gov't should protect and be there for disasters indeed... but I'll take any administrations handling of a crisis here in the States than 99.9% of the country's out there. Burma, is a naughty little nation... proof shown on difficulty to get aid in there, and for those trying to do, to figure out how to make sure it gets in the right hands vs the military leveraging it....