Been out hunting quotes from folks who watched the speech:
"A day late and a dollar short," said 18-year-old Wayne State University student Rachel Aviles in Detroit. "I think he's more responding to the negative media than responding to fix the problem."
Jason Sawyer, 30, added his sarcasm as he watched at the Eastlake Zoo tavern in Seattle. When the president offered toll-free help numbers, Sawyer responded: "Oh yeah, pick up that cell phone that doesn't work and call FEMA."
Stories I've read and accounts from friends who are down there now say that if your cell-phone works at all, a call to FEMA can be an experience in patience. If it rings, your hold times can be really, really long.
What's sort of ironic, the operators who would answer the calls all have to get lengthy background checks for the DHS jobs; however similar BI's don't seem to apply to political appointees who can fuck up the situation, but do nothing to mitigate it -Michael Brown-. Really, who did the investigation on him? If it takes more credentialling to anwser the phone than to run the store, then there's a bigger problem than just the 1600 Crew. No, on second thought, there isn't.
posted by Jo Fish on 09.16.05 at 01:44 PM
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Hey, is Chester still out there? Here's my rebuttal: "Four years after 9-11, Bush ought to have a plan to deal with a mass casualty incident in a major American city."
posted by: Tony on 09.16.05 at 02:17 PM [permalink]
