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To: Crackingham
"I lived in my house for 45 years -- my mother died and left it to me," said Gloria Brown, 70, an evacuee living in San Francisco. "I swam seven blocks in filthy water with my dog Queenie to survive. I want to come back but I can't pay for it."

Therefore you and I must, apparently. There is no difference between this and a stickup in the street, but there are very few people who have the courage to say it.

"They're giving folks in Iraq better things than they're giving us."

I keep forgetting that the sole purpose of government is to "give" things to people.

Rally organizers accused the city of discriminating against black residents by moving slowly on rebuilding,

Nothing like people who don't understand the meaning of the word "insurance."

particularly in low-income areas that were hardest hit,

I love to watch conservative parody lines come to life.

after failing to rescue them quickly in the days following the storm.

Nothing like people who don't understand the meaning of the term "evacuate" either.

24 posted on 12/10/2005 3:46:19 PM PST by denydenydeny ("As a Muslim of course I am a terrorist"--Sheikh Omar Brooks, quoted in the London Times 8/7/05)
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To: denydenydeny

These are the same people who allowed a few thousand of their own fully operable cars to be drowned instead of using those cars to evacuate when they could have. Now they want to sponge off the rest of us. Disgusting.


101 posted on 12/11/2005 8:13:12 AM PST by libstripper
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