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[theweaselking]

Pop quiz from the cowtown people:

1. It is August 28. A Category 5 hurricane is heading towards New Orleans, setting the stage for what reports since the nineties and possibly before have said could be the worst natural disaster this country could ever see. You are the president. Do you:

A) Stage troops already in Texas and North Carolina to be ready to deploy the second it is safe to help with rescue and clean up operations.

B) Coordinate with state and local officials to ensure that as many people as possible are evacuated and command, control, and assessment teams are already in place to oversee the first few critical hours of damage control and rescue operations.

C) Leave four states full of people that voted overwhelmingly for you hanging in the wind with nothing more than local police and fire forces who are about to lose most of thier equipment to rely on while you continue your vacation on your Texas ranch


2. It is august 29th and one of the worst storms on record is battering the gulf coast, a densely populated area key to your countries domestic energy production. Do you:

A) Stage troops already in Texas and North Carolina to be ready to deploy the second it is safe to help with rescue and clean up operations.

B) Be on the phone with FEMA making sure supplies of food, potable water, portable shelter, and rescue equipment are being staged for immediate dispersal.

C) Head to the opposite side of the country to make a speach and pose with your guitar for a photo op


3. It is August 30th. A major US city and several major regional population centers are under water. Across wide areas, there is no electricity, no running water, and dwindling food and fuel supplies. Hundreds, if nt thousands of people are trapped in rapidly flooding areas. There is heavy infrastructre damage, and communications are spotty. There is massive human suffering on a grand scale. Do you:

A) Send in the troops, much like the 25,000 your father sent in for Hurricane Andrew.

B) Activate emergency disaster plans you put into place over the previous days to alleviate the worst of the human cost.

C) Ignore a slowly worsening situation that may have been lessened given your timely intervention and decide you will do something about it tomorrow.

Choose carefully. Here's a hint about the correct answer:


Remember: Bad things only happen to you if you DESERVE them.

Comments

[torrain.livejournal.com]

I think the worst thing is that until you pointed this out, I didn't really expect better from him. He's just come across as such an uninfluential mouthpiece for so long that the concept of him actually doing something in a crisis doesn't really register anymore.