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September 11, 2005

The hits just keep on coming. . .

Now it's being reported that in addition to the City of New Orleans:

NOT EVACUATING CITIZENS ON AVAILABLE CITY BUSES
and the State of Louisiana:
STONE-WALLING THE FEDERAL RELIEF EFFORTS AT EVERY TURN

it appears that the city officials in New Orleans (these are the locals people, not the Feds and not the President) refused an Amtrak offer of assistance with getting people out of the city.

In fact, while the last regularly scheduled train out of town had left a few hours earlier, Amtrak had decided to run a "dead-head" train that evening to move equipment out of the city. It was headed for high ground in Macomb, Miss., and it had room for several hundred passengers. "We offered the city the opportunity to take evacuees out of harm's way," said Amtrak spokesman Cliff Black. "The city declined."

So the ghost train left New Orleans at 8:30 p.m., with no passengers on board.

I really don't have any civil words to express the anger that builds greater and greater every day as I see the corruption, politicing and COMPLETE AND TOTAL INCOMPETANCE that is the City of New Orleans and the State of Louisiana.

It really, really sucks to be embarrassed by your birthplace and hometown.

Nagin and Blanco must go, IMMEDIATELY.

--Jason

Posted by JasonColeman at September 11, 2005 9:59 PM

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