Off the top of my head
I am still aghast at what is happening in New Orleans, "the 'city' of Louisiana", Mississippi and Alabama. I am reading, reading, reading, and I can't get enough. I see that some sort of relief has come to many of the victims. It would appear that we have victims of the hurricane, victims of the subsequent flooding, and victims of the gross mishandling of the rescue and relief effort.I believe incompetence runs rampant in this country sometimes, but I have no doubt that if a company emergency were handled with as much incompentence and ineptitude (to put it way too mildly), the CEO and upper management would not only be fired by its board of directors, but they may even be tried for criminal neglect, or other offenses.
Let's say the building you work in caught on fire and the CEO knew about it but was too busy playing golf to call the fire department. Oh, and the high-tech, state-of-the-art security system he designed and installed accidentally locked the people inside the building. As a result, a couple of people die. Your CEO blames the bystanders who should have called the fire department. And then he blames the workers for not getting out of the building before it burned down (even though it was technically impossible). Alright, I am oversimplifying again, but you get the picture. In this case, the imaginary CEO might face charges of involuntary manslaughter in addition to negligence and misconduct. Wouldn't he?
(I don't have a law degree or education - this is for illustrative purposes only).
Well, aren't we essentially the stockholders of this company called the United States of America? When are we going to recall the Board of Directors (our legislators) and fire the CEO, VP and the entire Cabinet, including the so-called Director of FEMA? If ever there was a case for filing criminal charges of neglect (at a minimum), it seems to be now.
Anyway. I am more informed than this tirade would indicate. It's simply unbelievable that this could be happening.
posted by Anita at
11:32 AM
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What's odd is I was going to (and am still planning on it) use this metaphor to describe our Federal government in a different situation, mainly one in which people are shooting at each other in deserts. Good rant.
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