Posted on 09/02/2005 3:25:22 AM PDT by jimbo123
And a NO police station has been attack all night, Fort Apache!
EXACTLY!
They should be shot down without an ounce of mercy and then disposed of in the swamps...after all, gators need food too.
Amen!
And why don't you 'have any bootstraps'? BECAUSE WHITEY DIDN'T GIVE YOU ANY.
I remember hearing that my great-grandfather, who came over from Germany to Winnipeg, said that not only were the streets not paved with gold, they were not even paved and he had to do the paving. I don't think anybody who came over with the pioneers lasted long by sitting on the bank of the river and whining for goodies.
Thinking about it, this is one city that desperately needed an evacuation plan. Did it have one?
Once these folks are re-located to another city they won't be leaving. When December rolls around, the Houston Astro Dome will still be full of people. These are not people who are used to taking care of themselves. They are the chronically un-employed. They are uneducated, unskilled and lack motivation. They have lived on government assistance for generations. The small checks that they receive are supplemented with food stamps, free housing, WIC, Medicaid, food pantries, and I could go on and on. Those people who can take care of themselves either evacuated before the storm or have made other arrangements for their long term needs. I'm not sure that Houston, San Antonio, and Dallas have enough government housing available for the long term. The residents of these cities who are already taking advantage of government housing and programs are now going to have to compete with the N.O. people and they won't be happy. Other cities have to step up to the plate now and take some of these people.
,,,and Amen! The looters were shown before conditions reached the level they have now sunk too. With smiles on their faces only too happy to join in the mardi gras like festivities. My comment to the TV, is where the heck are they gonna take this stuff, on the bus out of town? Before this is over I'm thinking everyone is going to have to leave.
LOL..perhaps the ULTIMATE Freudian slip of the week..congrats
There were reports that many/most of the city's busses (not counting the school busses) were under water now, not having been used to assist in the "mandatory evacuation" prior to the storm. Those reports have stopped now, but I wonder how many people would still be alive if the city's evacuation plan had used the busses to convey people out of town - or at least to the railroad station.
There's a lot of politicians crying about what hasn't happened in order to cover up for what should have happened, IMO.
Bingo. The most common cause of poverty is the unwillingness to plan ahead.
We don't. But, we'll manage.
There certainly are a host of poverty causes, not the least of which is the willingness of government to keep contributing through welfare. What a choice of words to describe what this disaster isn't. We don't hear about the self sufficient who haven't lost the ability to work, think, prepare, and take care of their own, REGARDLESS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION. Poor is a condition levied by government, not by the mind of the individual.
I thought the same thing. Permanent refugee camps in the USA? Isn't that what the ghettos are anyway?
They should have put their stores up in the attic with them - of course many lost their attics.
People in the Superdome were told to bring five days of food and water - a family of six would have needed to carry fifteen gallons, minimum. And a family so prepared would have to give it up to the unprepared or have it taken.
The government should have been in their with water right after the storm. Their is a swimming pool on the roof of a tall building near the Dome - it would be a source of drinkable water.
Don't they have anyone one looking at the satellite photos, surveying what their is to work with?
With the looking, mayhem, rape and murder escalating, how much you want to bet the liberal media stops portraying this as a race issue?
As many times as I have denigrated New Yorkers for their politics, I don't for a minute think they would stand to live under the conditions you describe, they would do something about it and sooner rather than later. I'm quite sure they would leave the city, before conditions caused them to succumb to lawlessness.
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