Posted on 10/05/2007 9:42:16 PM PDT by chemicalman
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev toured New Orleans on Friday as an emissary of the global environmental movement, but his first sight of the devastated Lower 9th Ward inspired a momentary return to his socialist past.
"If things haven't changed by our next visit, we may have to announce a revolution," he said through a translator, as he walked the lifeless streets with well-wishers and staff members of Green Cross International, a non-governmental organization which he chairs.
"No matter the flooding and the hurricane, the red tape and bureaucracy survive," he said.
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ok. go back and fix Russia.
He should feel right at home. It resembles the old Soviet Russia.
Why is the heck is the likes of Gorbachev lecturing us about New Orleans? He wants to have a communist revolution in America????
Maybe he can go back to Pizza Hut commercials and STFU????
Gorbie’s socialist past is the same as his socialist future, the Berlin Wall didn’t come down because he had a change of heart. He is no friend of this Republic!
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev toured New Orleans on Friday as an emissary of the global environmental movement
Just what in the hell is the global environmental movement? Is that one of the denominations of the Church of Algore?
"No matter the flooding and the hurricane, the red tape and bureaucracy survive," he said.
Ironic words coming from the former head of the biggest purveyor of red tape and bureaucracy the world has ever seen: communism.
And will someone please explain to me just what the hell this red commie bastard has to say about anything in this country.
I stayed at a Holiday Inn once.
Maybe he could let some of them move to the Presidio .
There’s an idea. Let the communists rebuild the cesspool in NO.
The ninth ward probably can't be rebuilt because they don't build little homes like that any more (at least around where I live), and they probably were under-insured or uninsured.
Furthermore, there's no point in rebuilding it unless and until they spend millions/billions on the levee. There probably isn't an easy answer.
Who wants to live there now anyway? Most of the former occupants were forced to move to greener pastures and probably don't want to come back.
If they fix the levee, they will probably need to build multi-family housing. In all fairness, it is probably a hard decision to make what to do with it.
I've read that there is much cleaning up to be done yet. That should be done, and I don't know why the delay on that.
Is anybody living there now or is it a "ghost" ward?
Gorbachev is dreaming if he thinks he represents more compassion than the US has shown for NOLA. There are millions of Russians outside the cities who have lived in worse conditions than post-Katrina NOLA for decades. Centuries. Ask the Moscovite hurling down the highway in his Mercedes how much he cares when he sees a peasant woman selling dried fish by the side of the road. Does he care that she doesn’t have electricity? Clean water? A pension check? Gorby must have joined the church of Algore for the adulation of the groupies.
After Nutjob and Birthmark, next will be China’s president Hu to lecture us on plant emissions. Then, Kim Jong to harangue us for abandoning Hollywood. Then Chavez.. oh wait, been done.
Sure, pal. New Orleans needs a revolution, just like North Korea and Cuba. What’s your plan for phase 2? Let me guess: build gulags on the outskirts of Baton Rouge. When the gulags get too full, put the people on highway crews and bury the ones that you work to death right under the road they’re building. Call it ‘The Road of Bones II’.
Mother Russia is a real model for the world, you red commie piece of crap! I hope a meteor or airplane toilet falls on your head!
There was a good reason there has been no private investment there for years. The government has no duty to reclaim land from the sea .
What a grubby little man.
I am surprised no one noticed this, but he does speak english, in fact, he speaks and understands it quite well.
So why does he need a translator?
The government has no duty to reclaim land from the sea.”
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Agreed.
Actually, it was the levees that were designed, constructed and maintained by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that failed and flooded New Orleans.
If the Corps had done their job correctly, the levees would have withstood Katrina.
In the end, Katrina was not a natural disaster but rather a manmade disaster caused by the Federal Government.
It resembles 99.9% of russia today.
has this hypocrite taken a nice 2 hour walking tour of Chernobyl lately?
bet not
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