Posted on 09/15/2005 4:52:29 PM PDT by Howlin
Edited on 09/15/2005 5:05:17 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
9 P.M. EDT.
Or we can leave an area the size of England which includes
one of the largest ports in the U.S. just as it is and the
tens of thousands of people who are displaced all over the
U.S., just let them be and problem solved.
Yea, that sounds like a plan.
How ever you look at it it is going to cost money and lets
do it right.
Sorry it spoils your day.
"A Bid to Repair a Presidency"
Trust the WP's petty biased vindictiveness to continue.
"Yeah where were you on the wednesday after the storm, huh?
heh.
This will ring most hollow to the millions directly affected by this devastation, the many millions more emotionally pulled by it.
There is a tremendous potential here for so many good things,
not the least of which is americans reduscovering our common ground. The DU/Kos Kiddies/Moonbats may never get it, but the rest will hear thier words in a new light in the context
of 90,000 square miles of America just ruined
. I cant get that out of my mind.
I really got to go now...heh.
later
Not true...it's a state's rights issue. You can read the 1964 Civil Rights Act at the link I posted to you before.
http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/laws/majorlaw/civilr19.htm
The evacuees were so well treated in Texas, y'all were so well organized, they don't want to leave. My city was prepared to take up to 5,000 people. Last I checked we got 33, LOL! No way did they want to leave Houston for here.
But it might be too many new people for Houston to accomodate permanently, so I understand your point.
The Port of NO is a VERY important port to all of us. It needs to be rebuilt.
The infrastructure of LA., Miss.,and Al. all need federal help. And yes, that IS Constitutionally under the aegis of the Fed Gov!
In case you have forgotten, we are the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. States haves responsibilities, but so too does our government, to states.
I'm not exactly young and I not only remember exactly what things were like pre LBJ, but what things were like, for EVERYONE, under Ike and Truman. Southern poverty, for whites and blacks, wasn't better. Urban crime was lower or higher, depending upon where one was. And as far as education, that too, depended upon just WHERE you lived and went to school.
And there were dropouts and gangs and blacks had a 30% illegitimacy rate in the late '60s, which is now worse, but getting better.
Teachers' unions had nothing to do with the Federal Government and neither did the doing away of Normal Schools and Teachers' colleges.
Please don't get so carried away, that the facts get lost.
Thank you.
It sounds EXACTLY like FR, sadly, circa 2000.
Our third commitment is this: When communities are rebuilt, they must be even better and stronger than before the storm. Within the Gulf region are some of the most beautiful and historic places in America. As all of us saw on television, there is also some deep, persistent poverty in this region as well. And that poverty has roots in a history of racial discrimination, which cut off generations from the opportunity of America. We have a duty to confront this poverty with bold action. So let us restore all that we have cherished from yesterday, and let us rise above the legacy of inequality. When the streets are rebuilt, there should be many new businesses, including minority-owned businesses, along those streets. When the houses are rebuilt, more families should own, not rent, those houses. When the regional economy revives, local people should be prepared for the jobs being created. Americans want the Gulf Coast not just to survive, but to thrive, not just to cope, but to overcome. We want evacuees to come home for the best of reasons, because they have a real chance at a better life in a place they love.
Those two paragraphs did not encourage me much. Just how are we going have more "black owned" businesses?
by subsidizing based on skin color....again.
it would be best if the truly mired down and dispersed started over completely....somewhere else. that's just my hunch.
securing NOLA from floods by either monumental site prep or triple levees or both is first order after clean up.
I thought it was in the top three of Bush speeches. I didnt hear anything about rebuilding flooded homes....insurance companies or homeowners will foot the bill for that. Going to be a hell of a lot of rail traffic coming down from Canada with wood.
Unfortunately, there will be those who will never be willing to work, on the other hand there is a lot of elderly people who lost it all, as well as many people who lived week to week and never was on welfare, but I will bet that 70% of those who lost their homes were middle class families who had some insurance and lived near where they worked, we don't hear about them because the MSM likes feeding people like you with the worst possible picture possible so you can turn on your President
FGS, it's not even a states right issue.
My beef is with the war on poverty aspects of the speech and I stand by that.
You are free to diagree naturally.
Nagin-Binford Corp.
Eddie Compass Security
you get the idea
Well said. In addition, they may even have a car should there be another evacuation someday.
What a shame. People are going to end up looking like Clinton and Teddy is all they can see is the negative. That should be incentive enough to change! LOL
' I don't understand your point. How could a state construction program funneling federal funds not be a state's rights issue?
"they all seemed to be drinking from the same Kool-Aid."
more like drinking from the streets of New Orleans.
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