Posted on 09/04/2005 9:15:48 AM PDT by 4everontheRight
I just donated a dozen packs of new playing cards, four pounds of trail mix and two pounds of jerky to a PRIVATE group bringing supplies to Gulfport:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1476257/posts
I heard they built a Casino in LA. with the funds?
Mississippians are acting like civilized human beings. That's why they're being ignored.
Neil Cavuto exposed the state levy board of Louisiana as one of the most rotten, corrupt bureaucracies in the country. In spite of having hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenue at its disposal, this agency hasn't spent a cent on the levies in ten years. Instead, they bought a corporate jet for the agency's big shots, a casino, and they sunk at least a hundred million dollars into questionable if not out-and-out illegal investment schemes having nothing to do with the levies. A bunch of bureaucrats need to go to prison, but it'll never happen because so many of them are black.
This is so huge a catastrophe I don't think any of the perfunctory race-baiting by the "unbiased" media is going to matter. Time will bring the truth out. The real fallout hasn't even begun. Wait till litigation begins over this mess. Litigation against the state of Louisiana and the city of New Orleans by property owners is going to be massive. Federal disaster relief won't even begin to compensate people for their lost homes, possessions, businesses, and careers. New Orleans will never be the same as it once was. The state of Louisiana may as well declare bankruptcy right now and get it over with.
90% of all imported oil comes into the US at New Orleans. It'll take months to repair the petroleum distribution infrastructure. We'll never see a significant roll back at the pump following this disaster. That isn't going to happen. 9/11 and its consequent aftermath in lost business revenue cost the US $2 trillion, 1/6 of our GDP. The Hurricane Katrina disaster will cost the nation twice that or more, probably 1/3 our GDP. We'll pay $700 billion more for gasoline and heating fuel over the next year. Recession looms.
The Army Corps of Engineers says it's going to take 6 months to pump the water out after the levies are repaired. By then, a lot of former New Orleans residents now in exile will have relocated -the professionals, people with money. What you're going to get moving back into the city are the same 20% of gangsters and welfare ner-do-wells who didn't evacuate with the 80% of responsible residents who did leave. Then the rot and corruption that has always characterized New Orleans politics can start all over again.
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Professor George Oh Well is the distinguished Íñigo Alonso de Montoya y Pérez de las Altas Cumbres professor of Illegal Immigration, Surreptitious River Crossings, and American Social Security Benefits at Poncho Villa University in Sonora, Mexico.
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One of our dear Mennonites in this area loaded up a truck with water, gassed up and headed out for Mississippi yesterday.
That you, Mr. Lehman.
I noticed the overly focused coverage, too. I thought I heard one time that Mobile flooded and that was it. I was wondering what happened to other areas. Could someone post some threads on that ? If this request is out of line, please disregard and don't flame. I'm still learning Freeper rules.
I'll almost bet even money that by January 2009 Gulfport and Biloxi, MS and Mobile, AL will be rebuilt better than ever (along with construction underway on building a seawall system to minimize the effects of storm surges!), while New Orleans will still be a mess.... 
I'll almost bet even money that by January 2009 Gulfport and Biloxi, MS and Mobile, AL will be rebuilt better than ever
Amen! I have been asked to help the relief effort by signing people up for the Federal Food Stamp Disaster program . I told the Secretary of the Illinois Dept of Human Services that I'm willing to go only if I can be assigned to Mississippi. I also feel that the suffering of Mississipians has been overshadowed by those who want to push their distorted political agenda(Jesse Jackass, etc)since New Orleans is getting so much airtime.
Thanks Spectre!! You're right. Hopefully the good folks of MS and AL won't be ignored any more by the press. And hopefully there won't be anymore hurricanes.
Just heard MA is taking some of the refugees.
Barbour 2008!!!!
Bourbor is having his Guiliani moment and may very well be the next president.
yes, the media would be blaming Barbour and Trent Lott for anything going badly in MS.
No, it's simply becauase the damage in MS and AL combined pales in comparison to the damage in New Orleans alone. It's really nothing more complicated than that. It's no dark conspiracy to over look displaced whites, it's not because AL and MS were better prepared, it simply a matter of damage distribution.
that meant - moving well into MS.
mega truth bump!!!!!!!!!
encapsulated into one little bitter pill!!
Ummmmmm ... have you seen the Gulf Coast of MS? A tourist area of 15 million p/year has been reduced to nothing.
Absolutely. I'm very familiar with the area, even having lived in Foley, AL for a short period of time. Still, mark my words, in the end when the tallies are totaled and the damage in both lives and property is fully known, you'll find that New Orleans alone will top MS and AL combined in losses.
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