Posted on 08/29/2005 12:39:10 PM PDT by Smogger
WTF???
Aid to disaster victims is a legitimate government responsibility. What is your solution when these people go weeks and months without water, food, and electricity?
If you think PRESIDENT BUSH is a "socialist" then you're gonna love Hitlery.
Same to ya!
Boil water RECOMMENDATION?! Ya think?
Exactly! When you build on the edge of the Gulf, you should not be allowed to rebuild IMHO. I really resent tax dollars going to help casino owners who put their casinos on the Gulf rebuild as well.
Oh, I definitely think they could refine their evacuation plans! :)
This is what i call constituent activism. Judicial activism is where judges invent extra constitutional powers. Constituent activism is when voters do the same thing. Where does the constitution empower the president to spend tax money to payout flood victims?
That person has obvioiusly never visited New Orleans. Taking your life in your hand to walk along the Interstate IMHO.
What is with some of these folks?
We lived in New Orleans because dear hubby was in the USGC--another group that doesn't get to heed the evac. orders. And then there are the doctors and nurses (and everyone else who keeps a hospital open and running) and by the way, how do these folks think those hotels in the Quarter stayed open? Those employees (and likely their families) did NOT get to head for higher ground.
The ignorance of those statements is bad enough, but the heartless factor just floors me.
You mean like putting the plans into affect earlier than 24 hours before? The Mayor and the City Council need to answer to the city for their incompetence IMHO.
My son and I have been on our knees, praying for you and yours. That's the only way we can help right now.
I guess you haven't thought it through to realize that many of the levees may not be stable, there is still the risk of a breach or failure. Given that so much of the city is below sea level, and that the lake and river will be high for several days, what if they let everyone back in and then the bowl flooded? No way they all get out without mass drownings.
Y'all sound like a couple of liberals. if you want to help, write a check. Why has the gubmint got to be involved in it? And if we really want to help, let's just get the gubmint to buy everyone flood insurance.
If the President hadn't twisted some arms in Louisiana, I have no doubt there would have been a much higher death/injury toll.
The Ninth Ward is one of the scariest places in the United States. If you want to talk about mean streets, this is it. This is where Marshall Faulk escaped from. There are certainly elderly and infirm who would have had no way to evacuate.
"Can you believe some of the comments? The law enforcement folks are told they have to stay and most want to stay to help and then when they're stranded or killed, some freepers have the nerve to make comments like this?
And for the others...some people are just poor but most of us on FR who have computers and can afford things like internet service don't understand that there is abject poverty left in this"
Ditto. They can't be REAL freepers... I won't own them and their mean spirited comments.
The story at mid-morning was that it wasn't a breach but the Miss. River overtopped the levee at Arabi. Are you hearing different? Sorry for your loss, it is all a darn shame.
Sure, let's just let folks suffer with no help. Way to go, Scrooge.
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