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Originally Posted by stevo
Now we've gone off onto a whole nother topic. I'm talking about how the democratic government in Louisiana and New Orleans, that has governed the area for the last 70 years did a piss poor job of handling the crisis. The welfare-state was part of that. Look at Mississippi (who has a republican gov and took the worst hit from Katrina) and Florida (who has a republican governor and has been through 5 hurricanes in the last 2 years) and look at the difference in government, politics, and where the responsibility lies in protecting the people. Why is it that the Louisiana gov't couldn't take care of itself? did fema fail us or did the people's own govt?
If you want to talk about how if true liberal policies were implemented the people would be better off, we can start a new thread once you show me the instances where socialism has upheld its promise of equality, of no haves and have-nots, only haves. Find that, start the thread, and I'll be more than willing to discuss the failures of socialism.
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ok, stevo, if all you can understand is democrat == bad, republican == bad, and reduce these complicated issues of how various states have dealt with various catastrophes (and then only pick three that support your thesis, while ignoring ones that don't, to boot) then I'll just agree to disagree.
And I didn't say anything about implenting socialism or "true" liberal poliices. I just questioned the basis of your claim that liberal policies have failed people when they haven't been implemented as liberals would have liked them to be. if you take my idea and inject it with your ideas and then implement it, that doesn't make it a liberal policy anymore, does it?