If Louisiana falls into the GOP column and
nobody reports it, will it have happened?
Evidently there's a lot of "I got mine, it didn't happen to me, so screw you" people floating around right now....which is sad.
It's our way to help our fellows when a disaster hits. If disaster happened to LA, we would be doing this. If disaster happened to Dallas, we would be doing this. Even if it happened to Newark or Paducah or Missoula.
We've never had such disaster in a key American city in a long time - and certainly not one in a city that was the third largest port in the world, gateway to the center of the US, and area so important in the petrochem business.
This disaster, whether you want to believe it or not, affects probably all Americans, and more directly than we might realize.
It's important.
Have bounced all over this humongous thread.
Some of the "complainers" can't see the forest for the trees. They do not see what the President is in fact proposing. And its results.
President Bush and his admin are amazing men and women. Very, very bright.
They just do not believe in stepping over a dollar to pick up a dime. ;> And I don't either.
I think you are absolutely right, and I think it will be years before the socio-economic impact, well, first, happens, and then second, will be understood.
But I can tell already that even in the 20 minutes or so that my electricity went out that a big debate occured while I missed participating in the live thread (my family just doesn't understand how important it is to participate in a live thread, LOL!).
I might just have to pour a big coffee tomorrow morning and sort through the, oh, what is it now, 1300 or so posts, LOL!
Anyway, let me just say, thank God--and Jim Robinson for this place.
I wonder, Jim, if you ever imagined, when you started, that you would end up being the one place where people all around the world go to "meet up" when important things happen? Amazing...