Posted on 09/04/2005 10:33:29 AM PDT by Tribune7
As the crisis in New Orleans ebbs and civil order is restored we can begin to question the causes and assign blame.
A considered look shows it to squarely rest on the shoulders of two men. Two men, not monsters or malevolent creatures from some alien planet. Just two men who have wives and children. Two men who love their pets and have neat lawns.
Their names are John F. Kerry and Edward (Ted) Kennedy. They are senators from the state of Massachusettes.
Rather than use their considerable influence to get the needed tax dollars to strenghten to a Cat 5-hurricane level the levee that held back the waters of Lake Pontchartrain from the poor African-American neighborhoods of a poor African-American city in a poor, ill-represented state, they chose to convince Washington to spend it on a $14.6 billion project to make ease traffic problems in Boston.
That $14.6 billion spent to get white people from white suburbs to white collar office jobs, could have been used to save a city.
Can these men sleep at night?
I thought I heard on the news that weekend that the eastbound lanes into New Orleans on I-10 WERE being used to send traffice West.
Builing up the levees to handle a cat 4 or cat 5 has been estimated to take 30 years to complete…and that was estimated back in 1998…even if all the money they needed, and all the enviro-Ludites withdrew their objections to any Army Corps projects such as this, 30 years would be well outside NOLA's date with Katrina. Rhetoric and 'good intentions' don't help victims. Trying to score political points while there is so much human suffering only shows how callous Liberals truly are. We can have a 9-11 styled cover-up later…LET'S SAVE PEOPLE FIRST and we can form a circle and start shooting each other later.
How far did that go. I've gotten conflicting reports.
We could drain all of New Orleans if only we could get Fat Teddy to do a cannonball off of a tall building!
Of course we would have to issue tsunami warnings to Texas and MS.
Where is Kerry and Kennedy's millions of dollars, what about Kerry rich _itch wife with all her millions of dollars, why weren't they down there with their boats helping these people get out of a bad situation.....
Oh yeah...I forgot, Mrs. John had raisins to pickle, and Mrs. Ted couldn't possibly get her hands dirty now could she????
Thanks
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