The New Orleans mayor is pissed. He said so in a radio interview. And as well he should be. Things in New Orleans are very bad. Every morning I wake up to read the news and it continues to get worse intead of better. George Bush is on his way in the ravaged area to take charge. A Yahoo! News article reports:

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin blasted the federal government as emotions spilled over in an angry radio interview, saying he was “pissed” at the lack of help the historic city had received.

“I need reinforcements. I need troops, man. I need 500 buses, man,” he said. “Now get off your asses and fix this. Let’s do something and let’s fix the biggest goddam crisis in the history of this country.”

“We authorized $8 billion to go to Iraq, lickety split. After 9/11 we gave the president unauthorized powers, lickety split to help New York and other places,” he said. “You mean to tell me that a place where most of your oil is coming through … that we can’t figure out a way to authorize the resources that we need,” said Nagin.

Police have locked themselves in their own headquarters in fear of the looters and shooters.

I’m not in it and I can’t see first hand. Nor am I the Mayor of the city or an emergency services planner, so I can’t just sit here a few thousand miles a way and critique the operation. I can just say how deeply let down I am by what has unfolded. It doesn’t seem possible the the richest nation on earth can completely lose control of one of it’s most famous and charismatic cities. This is the true nature of humanity when it’s starving, thirsty, dying and abandoned without civil rule or law. We all criticize the chaos in the streets of Baghdad and the middle east and we say, “how could those barbaric people treat each other this way and live that way, shooting each other, bombing and looting buildings. How do they get to that point?” Well, this is how. We are watching it first hand.

Read the full article at Yahoo! News.

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