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Old 09-14-2005, 03:35 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Sooooooooooo, if your poor and lack incentive to move away and make a better life for yourself the whole city should be opened up for you to loot and pillage?? It's pretty easy to set across the Atlantic Ocean and pick apart every single thing you believe went wrong. I'm sorry but there is plenty of avenues for people that really want to make life better paid for by the tax payers. There is tons of government programs for education etc. so that even if your poor you can still get an education and make things better. There is no excuse in today's America for people, black or white, to sit on their collective asses and expect everything to be taken care of be the taxpayers. These people had plenty of chances to leave before the hurricane hit. Most had years prior to take advantage of government programs and get an education. There was poor white people in that mess down there too. This wasn't just whitey keepin' the black man down. There was plenty of affluent black people that got out just like their white counterparts. I would imagine there was even a few Republicans trapped in that mess too {gasp!!}. If you really want to start placing blame then start at the bottom and work your way up. Let's start with the people themselves. They was told if they came to a community shelter to bring enough food and water for FIVE days but no one had shit the day after the storm. What's up with that? I could go on but I will let it go, obviously the people had little money and had even less common sense. On to the mayor. He had plenty of city buses available on election day to make sure that all the poor poor pitiful people that don't have rides could make it out to vote but he couldn't find one damn bus before the hurricane hit to assist the same poor poor pitiful people in getting out of the city. Pathetic. The mayor is responsible for having a adequate emergency evacuation plan in place. What happened there? The mayor is responsible for having shelters stocked with adequate food and water. What happened there? I guess since he is a liberal Democrat he shares no blame in this complete fiasco?? No sense beating a dead horse. On to the Governor. Now here is a real piece of work. She had the whole LA National Guard at her disposal. She could have ordered them to do anything she wanted and she chose to do nothing. Did you read the article from Newsweek that was posted on MS News? Apparently not. Anyway, in the article her, the mayor, and the POTUS had a meeting on Air Force 1 about the and during fiasco and the mayor first took a shower then proceeded to slam his fist on the table and demanded that it be "federalized". The Governor said she wanted to talk to the POTUS privately about that, she didn't want to discuss it with the mayor present for whatever reason. So she gets her wish and in the end she turns down "federalizing" the relief because she didn't want to lose control of her state. WTF?? You can lead a fuckin' horse to water but you can't make'em drink..... For all you people out there that don't live here in the states, for the federal government to move in and take over relief the state has to officially request it because of some stupid law that was passed years ago. So while the Governor had her people out researching what she needed to do, New Orleans and the poor poor pitiful people, looters and pillagers there basked in the hot LA sun with no food and water. Finally after a few days she figures out what needs to happen and the cavalry arrives. Now it's a giant mess left up to the taxpayers to clean up.

All that to say this, ..... Respectfully said I might add..... before you sit across a huge ocean picking and choosing a few clips to make your point, research the whole point you want to make before you go shooting your mouth off via your fingers on a message board.
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