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Originally posted by Penske_Account
You have to be kidding me. Could you be please be objective for a minute and explain why you continue to back end a defence of Nagin? The buses should have been there, they weren't. Maybe all of the people who wanted to complain died.
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I can't tell whether you are being stupid or being a troll. Either way, I'm sick of it. I'm not defending Nagin. I have yet to see a good explanation, anywhere, of what happened with those buses, notwithstanding asking you repeatedly. The pictures look damning enough, but I want to know more. In any event, if the city had made the buses available, my bet is that most of the people who ended up staying would have stayed anyway. One reason for this is that I'm not seeing complaints by people now that they would have got on those buses and were instead stuck in the city. There are a lot of reasons for people to try to ride the storm out instead of leaving. For example, if you don't have any money, and you get on a bus, then what? For this reason, no matter how lousy a decision Nagin made vis-a-vis the buses before the hurricane, I don't think that decision was ultimately as significant as, e.g., the abject failure of the federal government to do much of anything in the several days after the hurricane.
