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Poor didn't deserve this: Neglected by nation, they had no options [barf]
Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | 9/7/05 | Cynthia Tucker

Posted on 09/07/2005 8:04:44 AM PDT by madprof98

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To: madprof98
At least Nagin and his fellow city officials were trying to figure out how to get the poor out of town if disaster struck.

Why hasn't someone invested in a way to convey 50-60 people from one place to another with only one person operating that device. If there were such a miracle device, hundreds of them could be placed around the city. Then the mayor could write an emergency plan which relied on using these vehicles to haul tens of thousands of people out of the city with each round trip.

Too bad no one has ever created such a device.

41 posted on 09/07/2005 8:29:50 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (We need a strict constructionist - not someone who plays shadow puppet theatre with the Constitution)
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To: madprof98

LOL! I find it simply fascinating that Cynthia actually gets paid to write this stuff. Why can't I find a job like this?

And she manages to pull-off giving NO and Nagin a pass for abandoning the "poor" of New Orleans and stick it to Brown.

Man, she's good.


42 posted on 09/07/2005 8:29:55 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici (When a Jihadist dies, an angel gets its wings)
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To: roses of sharon
No, sadly conservatives don't understand how the liberals score with black people on this stuff. I guarantee you polls will show at least 80% of black people agree with this article. It's all too long a story to cover completely, but the left can throw the rawest red meat out there and black Americans will eat it every time. Please note the left has a monopoly on this because the right NEVER appeals to blacks on a racial basis.

All very noble of us, but the ONLY reason we have a sizeable left wing democrat party in office today is the black vote. Without 90% of these liberal dems would lose. they know it and they will fan the racist fires every time. The GOP has never found the person who can call them out on it.

43 posted on 09/07/2005 8:29:57 AM PDT by Williams
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To: madprof98
Thomas Sowell has convincingly shown the direct link between the decline of the nuclear family and rising "poverty" rates.

The solution is easy: One man one woman, married and faithful.

44 posted on 09/07/2005 8:30:07 AM PDT by don-o (Don't be a Freeploader. Do the right thing and become a Monthly Donor!)
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To: Rosemont

True enough!


45 posted on 09/07/2005 8:30:09 AM PDT by cvq3842
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It always amuses me when those who mock others' suitability for jobs -- in part because of the way they speak -- can't spell or use proper grammar themselves. Look at this thread.


46 posted on 09/07/2005 8:30:19 AM PDT by bluejay213
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To: Revolting cat!
All the way home I held her cr(unintelligible>), But the safety belt, it wouldn't budge

Riding along in my automobile
My baby beside me at the wheel
I stole a kiss at the turn of a mile
my curiosity running wild
crusin' and playin' the radio
with no particular place to go

Riding along in my automobile
I's anxious to tell her the way I feel
So I told her softly and sincere
and she leaned and whispered in my ear
cuddlin' more and drivin' slow
with no particular place to go

No particular place to go
So we parked way out on ko-ko-mo
The night was young and the moon was gold
So we both decided to take a stroll
Can you image the way I felt
I couldn't unfasten her safety belt

Riding along in my calaboose
Still trying to get her belt a-loose
all the way home I held a grudge
for the safety belt that wouldn't budge
Crusin' and playing the radio
with no particular place to go

47 posted on 09/07/2005 8:30:24 AM PDT by TheOtherOne (I often sacrifice my spelling on the alter of speed™)
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To: madprof98

Brown's fault. He's white, y'know......


48 posted on 09/07/2005 8:30:30 AM PDT by clintonh8r (Liberals preach comity and practice calumny.)
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To: NavyCanDo

Half my family from Slidell is "displaced". They aren't whining, screaming at the Government, or asking for hand-outs.


49 posted on 09/07/2005 8:31:13 AM PDT by bonfire (dwindler)
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To: madprof98

What they didn't need is a picture like this Ms. Tucker, so why don't you ask your demoncrat buddies why in the HELL they didn't deploy the 2,000 buses available in the city of NO!

50 posted on 09/07/2005 8:31:30 AM PDT by conservativecorner
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To: FearlessFreep

I know what you mean.

There are also those eligible for welfare or other government programs who REFUSE to take it. That tells you a lot about those people.

Two kinds of poor, I agree . . .


51 posted on 09/07/2005 8:32:05 AM PDT by cvq3842
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To: traderrob6

Time for a slander suit.


52 posted on 09/07/2005 8:33:12 AM PDT by mlc9852
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To: madprof98
Someone please show Ms Tucker the Bus Pictures and The Abandonment Plan.
53 posted on 09/07/2005 8:34:14 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: madprof98

Unfortunately, the poor people in New Orleans were at the mercy not only of the weather, but of inept local politicians.


54 posted on 09/07/2005 8:34:23 AM PDT by SuziQ
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To: madprof98
I want STUFF! NOW!

And an easy job that pays! Or else I'll riot and sell drugs!

Actually - I'll sell drugs anyway, and I'll randomly lash out in violence if you don't keep giving me your dollars on weekdays and your daughters on the weekends!

55 posted on 09/07/2005 8:34:30 AM PDT by SteveMcKing ("I was born a Democrat. I expect I'll be a Democrat the day I leave this earth." -Zell Miller '04)
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To: denydenydeny
Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed levees and exploded the conventional wisdom about a shared American prosperity, exposing a group of people so poor they didn't have $50 for a bus ticket out of town. If we want to learn something from this disaster, the lesson ought to be: America's poor deserve better than this.

Actually, the shared (liberal) "conventional wisdom" is that any behavior by poor blacks is excusable because their forebears were slaves 150 years ago. The pictures and stories coming out of NO are so disgusting that this liberal myth is challenged (along with all the policies that flow from it). That is why the left is trying to shift blame to the Repbulican administration.

56 posted on 09/07/2005 8:34:37 AM PDT by sailor4321
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To: madprof98
a group of people so poor they didn't have $50 for a bus ticket out of town.

Apparently the writer hasn't been watching TV. Every single one of the houses they're air rescuing people from has one or more parked cars in the front yard.

57 posted on 09/07/2005 8:34:56 AM PDT by shuckmaster
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To: n230099

Are you sure that those weren't Jesse's words.Listening to him speak sounds like the teacher talking on the phone to Charlie Brown.The good reverend seems to be getting dumber by the day.


58 posted on 09/07/2005 8:35:49 AM PDT by rdcorso (Bill Clinton Stuck His Cigar In Foreign Places And Called It Foreign Policy)
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To: cvq3842
Tucker wants you to thank them as they slit your throat.

Hell... I don't blame her for writing this tripe... the stupids & our elected Republican's still fall for it.

59 posted on 09/07/2005 8:36:31 AM PDT by johnny7 (“And now, little man, I give the watch to you.”)
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To: TheOtherOne
Black Americans have suffered for 300 years?

Yeah, haven't you seen all those 300-year-old former slaves interviewed on the History Channel?

60 posted on 09/07/2005 8:36:45 AM PDT by Tax-chick (How often lofty talk is used to deny others the same rights one claims for oneself. ~ Sowell)
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