ROFL at Kanye

Alright, let's go. Who can delcare the state of emergency? Yes the President can. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_o..._United_States How about the fact that Bush's trip to see that area stopped food and supplies from getting in? http://www.nola.com/weblogs/print.ss...int076556.html And how about the Homeland Sceurity National Response Plan Set forth in Dec of 2004? It states that, in these "catastrophic" cases, the federal government will operate independently to provide assistance. The NRP also says that, when responding to a catastrophic incident, the federal government should start emergency operations even in the absence of clear assessment of the situation. "A detailed and credible common operating picture may not be achievable for 24 to 48 hours (or longer) after the incident," the NRP's "Catastrophic Annex" states. "As a result, response activities must begin without the benefit of a detailed or complete situation and critical needs assessment." http://www.dhs.gov/interweb/assetlib...RPbaseplan.pdf

You can go wherever you're talking about, whatever. You can spend all the time you want researching your point, Bush is still an idiot, and It's still not his fault N.O. is devastated. Fault for slow response is first on the state and city, plain and simple. If they had requested further assistance then denied it, then it would be fed fault.

I personally believe the federal government should not have the level of involvement with the states that it has today. Our country was designed to be independent states governing themselves, with a federal government given the purpose of keeping the states unified. Federal government has way too much to say about what the people do.