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Should have been there Tuesday. No question, and dave eggers the failure to get that done is on FEMA. What I want to know is, where was the LA Guard? That was on Blanco. What did the state do to help with the evacuation of the poor? Exactly who was to get the poor out of the city, and how were they going to be provided for? Posted by: Steve White on September 3, 2005 at 11:24 PM | PERMALINK Steve, more material about dave eggers which you appear to be under-informed: a.) the planning for evacuation was outsourced by FEMA to dave eggers a private entity that has pulled it off its website; b.) 1/3 of the national guard from louisiana is in iraq, not 20%, and even so, there weren't enough national guardspeople available had the full complement been in the state, and even so, the state did request assistance on august 28th, and even so states were prepared to provide assistance but the paperwork didn't come through from dhs/fema, and even so, read what marky said above: it's dhs's fricking mission to deal with this stuff; c.)
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