Well, bless your heart. It is so compassionate of you to laugh at folks who want to return to their homes they have lived in for generations.
My word, the only thing they have to do is get up on poles and restore power, sanitize their drinking water, haul away tons of garbage in their backpacks and restore their homes full of mold and damage.
Why, those lazy dogs do not even deserve a helping hand, do they? After all, it's just white folks who are smart enough to do so, right?
I live in southeast Missouri and I can recall the damage of the 1973 flood, the 500 year one. I don't recall all the harping of folks here who resented fed dollars being spent to repair the damage to our cities effected.
And the black residents of NO probably do have a complaint. I have long felt that the government (city, state and fed) have determined that NO will be built for corporate interests and not for the residents.
They're getting a helping hand -- it's just not as fast as they want it or as MUCH as they want it. And they not the least bit appreciative of what WE are having to pay for.
Where was HER insurance? Or did she not know she was living BELOW SEA LEVEL? It was an act of God, for goodness sakes; we don't OWE her anything except to do the best job we can as soon as we can.
Quite frankly -- and in case you haven't noticed -- a lot of people are sick and tired of the whining and LIES coming from these people. It's bad enough that they are demanding BETTER than they lived before, but we who are going to end up paying for this have to listen to their continual CARPING about how bad they have it -- and to their LIES about "white people" deliberately letting this happen to them because they are black (see this week's Congressional hearings regarding white people bombing the leeves.)
I live in North Carolina, so don't lecture me about hurricanes; we've had more than you'll ever dream of having; but one thing you don't hear is the people of OUR state on TV whining about how we're not getting the government to replace something we didn't care enough to INSURE.
Your post is racist in tone and I damn well don't appreciate it. I bet I'm not the only one.
Hi conservbabe - I take it you do not believe that businesses must return first followed by the people?
Your posts tell me that you do not "get" New Orleans other than the headlines you read. Just as in Irag, the progress being made in New Orleans is not being heralded by the media. You are being used if you believe everything these self appointed Cynthia McKinneys are espousing, courtesy of the msm.
Who in the hell do you think pays for things? Do you think it's the Gum't that pays for rebuilding? Is it proper for these (for the most part) leaches, that are demanding their projects be rebuilt, so they can come back to sit idle?
If business isn't reconstructed, there are no jobs. If no jobs, then who pays for the welfare state? If no profit-led business taxes are paid, then the burden of paying their bills, falls on others. Maybe they need more casinos.
They are not owed a damn thing. Charity is a freely offered thing, not something extorted... and yes, it is mostly poor black people that are affected. Maybe it isn't "somebody else's fault"!
"Well, bless your heart"
I'm southern enough to know that this line, coming from a southern woman, is equivalent to chambering a round in your shotgun.......