Posted on 08/29/2010 7:40:16 AM PDT by US Navy Vet
What makes New Orleans so special that EVERY year we get these WAA WAA storie? New ways to bash Bush? Collage Journ-O-Lista MSM types re-living their drunken Mardis Gras past in NO? What?
I grew up in New orleans. Dad and Moon Landrieu were law school classmates. The place is a stink hole. Public corruption is a way of life. The Landrieus and Morials trade off the mayor’s office with a Nagin-idiot to break the monotony. The “survivors” is code for an uneducated, welfare addicted Black population stuck in a deadend existence by the corruption. Public education there is a joke. The place is run by a Jesuit High School educated elite who associate with each other and scratch each others’ backs. Nothern White, Liberal guilt will continue to drive the story. Truth is: the money to build adequate levees and flood barriers prior to Katrina was grafted and stolen. Nothing will change.
It’s just more beating down of Americans, constantly telling us how bad and inadequate we are, and trying to make us all feel guilty that we didn’t just drop everything and all rush down to NO and give them all of our worldly possessions, because it’s so unfair that the rest of us still have them, and they don’t. They try to make it sound as though a natural disaster was the fault of George Bush and his administration, like somehow they caused it to harm Democrats. I’m sick of it, and won’t watch it. Natural disasters happen, they are not caused by humans. The blame for anything that has not been rebuilt falls squarely on the politicians, and primarily on the Democrats, who would rather use such events to increase their power, at the expense of those affected. They don’t give a rat’s behind about the people, it’s all about power and control, and if people get in the way, they are used as tools, then cast aside.
Here in Port St. Lucie, Florida we got hit with three hurricanes in two years. Three hurricane eyes went directly over us in two years.
Here we cleaned up and rebuilt stronger and better and I NEVER saw a gub mint anything much less any kind of hand out.
Mississippi got hammered by Katrina and got ignored.
New Orleans folk are still bitching and wtill have a hand out to the gubmint.
(raising hand) me too! me too!
Yes, I know there was a lot of genuine suffering, but can someone tell me how it was that (at least according to all the interviews I’ve seen this week) EVERYONE had “just bought” all new furniture, a new car, all new clothing, and brand new computers—JUST before Katrina hit? Was there some kind of massive rush on all the businesses moments before the storm?
That’s what they’d have us believe.
Or could it be they hope to get more handouts by telling these tales of woe?
We will the people in LA be taken to task for stealing the levy money. That is what caused all the problems.
Where are you NOT seeing all these stories? I want to watch those channels.
Maybe today it does. You're probably right. Thankfully we've had a lot of people wake up since 5 years ago.
Where are you NOT seeing all these stories?
Not on my tv or any channels that I’ll watch. Life is much less stressful when I found out I could do without the talking heads, conservative or liberal, spin artists of all persuasions, etc.
Other channels are carrying it too, including HGTV, some of the Discovery channels—and if not in the programming, certainly in the commercials. The teevee is off for now, and might stay that way for the rest of next week.
As a life-long New Orleanian, I too am tired of the pity party. Nothing is ever said of the middle to upper middle class neighborhood of Lakeview that was completely wiped out when the 17th street canal began spilling into the streets. Nothing is ever said of affluent Old Metairie that was severely damaged. Nothing is said of lower middle class to poor Chalmette where every building was flooded. Nothing is said of the fact that a disproportionate number of caucasians died in Katrina compared to African Americans.
With that said, please place the blame for this bias, not on N.O. citizenry, rather the media morons looking to push their agenda.
Blanket statements made on this website about the citizens of Metropolitan N.O. end up being just as inaccurate as all of these “remembrances” put together by the fools in the media. And, they actually lend fodder to the false notion that Katrina was racism on display.
They are really playing it up this year so BHO can swoop in a promise more goodies. Oh, and blame Bush of course!
I am not placing the blame for this coverage on most New Orleanians—but on the media who exploits a certain kind of citizen. I do know there was terrible loss there. I lived there for 15 years, and have friends who continue to live there. They’ve rebuilt and moved forward with their lives, and do not make false claims in front of the cameras.
My contempt, really, is with those who take, and don’t contribute a lot to even their own well being—awaiting the government nanny to come take care of their needs.
That said, too many of these people consistently vote in the same kind of despots and crooks they always have, and no matter what you say, a place’s government reflects something of the people who keep them in office.
DITTO!!!!
You would think the lefties would be embarrassed by the helpless welfare state they created in New Orleans; the one that waited, to no avail, for the government landlord to come and spirit people safely away from the hurricane. But no - - instead they stage these pathetic anniversary shows every year as part of their scheme to scam even more tax dollars from normal, working Americans.
OK, the whine is pretty loud.
BUT
New bits of stories keep popping up.
SO
LEARN from this opportunity - so if the SHTF, YOU won’t be one of the ‘victims’ of whatever befalls you.
Over the years - and I am getting pretty old or so my grandchildren remind me - I have found out that learning from someone elses mistakes is far cheaper than my own OJT.
Or, you can just turn it off and not be bothered.
YMMV
Not including the masses of people who evacuated from the parishes surrounding New Orleans, 80% of the city's population of 412,000 evacuated before Katrina hit. Depending on where they lived, those people were not allowed to return to their homes or businesses for three weeks or more.
There were also people who were evacuated after the storm. Many of those were relocated to different parts of the country and some, due to financial problems and/or lack of a place to live, have not as yet been able to return.
Sometimes it seems to me as though some people do not realize that New Orleans would have been destroyed even if every single person who was living here at the time had evacuated. No matter what else, the city still would have been flooded and over 200,000 home and business properties would have been wiped out.
Time will tell, but I think the libs are once again shooting themselves in the foot by bringing up Katrina right before the elections. (At least I hoe so! :-)
Hoe = Hope
For liberals, when they are feeling blue, talking about New Orleans and Katrina is a way of saying “We’ll always have Paris.”
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