I don't care who it is, just blame somebody!

How about all this stuff in New Orleans? The city must be evacuated in the worst natural disaster in US history and the only thing anybody's worried about is who to blame for lives lost in the aftermath. I don't know about you, but I work in corporate America, where nothing is efficient. I don't even know why someone would think that's possible. We had a guy last week take a company car out of state and it broke down. He was able to get it towed to his hotel using his own AAA card (because that was free), but do you think he could get the car fixed? Think again. Sure, it would have cost 40 or 50 bucks tops, but it may as well have cost 50,000. Manager approval, spending freezes, confusing policies, PO's, automated accounting, budget restraints, it's a wonder anything gets paid for at all (and sometimes, it doesn't). It's 5 days later and the car's still broken, by the way. The way I see it, the delays in helping the stranded had nothing to do with one insensitive bad-guy and a lot more to do with a thousand little policies that snowballed into tragedy. Let's get that city cleaned up and try to learn from our mistakes. Yes, "learn," not "make it so this never happens again." People who expect perfection are stupid, crazy, or just CEO's. They don't live on planet earth, that's for sure.