quote:On September 1, 2005, just 3 days after hurricane Katrina made landfall, President Bush said in an interview aired on Good Morning America, "I do expect a lot of sympathy [from foreign governments] and perhaps some will send cash dollars, but this country's going to rise up and take care of it." The President was apparently out of touch with reality.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) obtained over 10,000 pages of emails, memos and other documents which indicate that the Feds were as unprepared to handle offers of assistance as they were to handle the disaster itself. Foreign governments offered more than $1 billion in assistance after the storm, but the US government collected only $126 million.
I think this says more, better than I could than anything else. It's the opening paragraphs of the linked article. Read the entire article.
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