Uncle Sham doesn't live in New Orleans, and his house is fine.
I don't live in New Orleans, and my house is fine.
And the people in New Orleans haven't actually got that promised $80 billion yet.
You and your kids were nice to send bottled water and pencils and Barnes and Noble gift cards. But these people don't have any houses and they don't have any furniture and they don't have any clothing and they don't have pots, pans, plates, dishes, forks, spoons, knives.
If someone just burned every house in your entire town, every store, every business, every car, every truck, every tool, and told you to pull yourself up by your bootstraps -- 200,000 houses gone, 400,000 people homeless and lost their livelihoods -- well, I won't wish that one you but maybe you'd know how it feels.
I always wondered what would happen in America if some terrorists set off a nuclear bomb in one of our cities. Never imagined it would be like this.
I've lost my faith in America. People like you killed it. You're a very nice man but you just have no clue and you don't want one. Nothing wrong with looking out for Number One. That's what keeps them alive all over the world. I just thought America was better.
So, now I know.
You know maybe, just maybe, if LA government weren't a completely corrupt sinkhole some of us around here might feel differently about 'aid'. But given their track record at graft, corruption, and outright theft I don't see how anyone with a modicum of intelligence can do anything but look at these demands with a very jaundiced eye.
You got 100 million to strengthen the levees. It got spent on a casino. That's all I need to see.
LA government isn't responsible enough to be trusted with any more government money. From what I've seen not many of the citizens are either.
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