The gum disease industry is worth millions of dollars, with a huge

Has anybody really thought through how virtually impossible that would have been.

1. You have to commandeer all the buses about 550 if I remember and get at least 550 drivers to come., Do you really think many of these drivers are going to abandone their families and their own evacuation to drive their buses to the poorest and most dangerous neighbourhoods in NO?

2. The buses must have fuel for several hundred miles. The buses must also be accompanied by cops to control the loading and search for weapons and drugs. I also thing some security would have to be provided on these buses. Where does that come from?

3. The people must be contacted and told where to go and what to do. They must agree to board the buses and leave knowing full well that whatever meager possessions they leave behind will be looted. They will have to leave trusting the corrupt city govenment to take care of them. Fat chance!

4. Then there must be places several hundred miles away where they can stay. All hotel rooms will be booked and no relief centers will yet be operational.

5. All this has to happen in a timely fashion while the rest of the city is getting out.

Even if there had been a comprehensive plan that had been practiced and studied by all does anyone really think it would have worked?

But there’s a price to pay for that kind of ruthless government efficiency.

His observation that people seem to expect the national Guard to just rise out of the ground is absolutely true. One ugly aspect of a some comment is the notion that government is supposed to start executing at the snap of a finger. It shows the same people who may in one breath deplore our consumerist mindset acting like customers of government rather than like citizens. People in the National Guard or on police forces are fellow citizens, not waiters dashing around and grovelling for a tip.