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Originally Posted by smooth
What is more likely is that people, to the extent they even realized a crisis of this magnitude was going to happen (and then we have to wonder just how many poor people sit around reading the papers and watching CNN/CSPAN to know that funding for levee constrution has been an issue for decades, & etc.), thought to themselves: the feds don't care, the cops don't care, if I leave everything I own behind, it won't be here when I get back. Even if I do go, where would I go? I got no car, I got no money in the bank. Shit, the best thing I can do is:
button up the hatches and pray for the best...it's what I've done my whole life
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agreed. I'd add: the mayor don't care the governor don't care either. And then ask them why. And ask why my government promises to help me get out of poverty, but I am still in it. Ask why liberal policies have failed me.
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