Posted on 09/02/2005 2:49:29 PM PDT by Guenevere
There comes a time when it's proper to discard the niceties and "git 'er done." If that means feeding your family, protecting your shelter, or fighting off bands of two-legged predators, then that's how it is.
I agree, and the pioneers who lived exactly as you describe developed our country with the raw courage and isolated self-determination you so aptly describe.
There is a lesson in this for all freepers ,it's a lesson that is as old as the hills : Put not your faith in princes for they will surely betray & fail you. This is what was writ large this week in New Orleans.
Stinking Rat Leadership!!!......My thoughts exactly!
In "The Big Easy" life ain't so easy anymore.
Too bad those elected always thought it was. It is evident that the mayor and governor had no clue how to proceed. Pitiful. The Tsunami tragedy was managed better. Within 2 days there were "tent cities" to house people out of the weather and hot sun. Water, food and supply drops started almost immediately and in the chaos there was organization.
I have yet to see one single tent set up on that highway where people are sitting, starving, sweltering and succumbing to death. The stench that people keep talking about coming from the city, is really coming from the stinking Mayor and Governor of the state. Putrid politicians!
Leadership? No. More like stinking piles of worm vomit. That's the Democrat's attempted simulation of leadership.
PING
Canteen Ping!
This is how things will proceed. The city will force everyone to leave shortly, and the leevy system will be fixed...with the water pumped out in 30 days (no less). By early Oct, significant numbers of residents will want to return immedately...although basements will still be filled of water, and utilities will not be turned back on in operation until the end of October (no earlier).
The mayor will start his tirades again...about this 60 day period that residents are forced to stay out of the city. Finally, the Corps and FEMA will be finished with their part, and around early November...people will pour into the area. The looting results and damage will hit them full force. For alot of them...there will be no homes left. And the tirade will go into over-drive by this point.
Some major businesses will study the impact of keeping corporate there in NO...and quietly move their exec's out to Baton Rouge or Dallas or Houston. The companies won't talk about it...but you will hear rumors by mid-November.
The bar zone....will find itself with few if any tourists in November, and several hotels will come to a point of closing because the cost of fixing facilities will be substantial and there will be doubt of tourists running back at full force for a year or two.
The oil business sector will continue on...they will fix all things and get their job done. Buddy, junior and guys will work their way back to real life.
The folks downtown...those who stayed at the SuperBowl and now are being pumped to Dallas and Houston...will demand and get $5k checks from the fed government...and spend it right there on booze and fun. When offered a free trip back to NO...they will turn it down. Dallas and Houston will then comprehend that they have to find permanent cheap housing for at least 10,000 NO residents each. These folks won't ever return.
The university in NO...down for this entire year. Forget about any classes.
The mayor...a slug...will disappear by the next election.
And finally the population of the town in 18 months....probably 50 percent less than in 2004. The Saints will likely stay...but forget about everything else. This town got its own situation...they earned their reward. This is not the typical town in America...they are special.
It's very true that many many hurricanes "headed straight for N.O." somehow conveniently take a "turn" at the last minute. I blame the media for this. They use the N.O. threat to keep viewers watching. And for that i understand why many residents didn't believe it. They've been cried wolf too many times.
Compounding that, the city was preparing for Southern Decadence next week which i believe is one of the city's biggest events of the year. So that too could be why some stayed. Didn't want to lose time on those preparations.
What Leadership? If there had been any leaders there worthy of the name, they would have had things under control much sooner.
the only thing I can think of why the Red Cross and others were not allowed in is because they expected another levee tofail and the city would be even more under water.......
otherwise, there is no explanation.....
ping
where were the cops?...the firemen?
the fire dept is famous for rescuing cats high up in trees.....couldn't they have seen to it that people could leave?
which brings me to this conclusions........the police and firemen did not come to work......there was no law and order in the city because because the police/fire depts were well undermanned...IMO, of course......
I also don't understand why food and water wasn't dropped down......
Thank you, Guenevere.
PING.
It is, and it's all Bush's fault....because they are just poor blacks down there and HE doesn't give a rat's ass about them.
The spin has begun, and it's nauseatingly apparent that the left will do ANYTHING and EVERYTHING to turn this into some sick political coup.
Thank You for posting your experience in NO. Thank God you got out.
My heart aches for those souls left there for days and days without food, water and shelter. Young and old suffering without hope.
There needs to be a radical shake up in the Gov. in LA.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.