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Obama: 'Katrina Survivors Didn't Get Enough Help'
The Serferm Post ^ | 02/20/2009 | The Serferm Post

Posted on 02/20/2009 2:02:24 PM PST by Dallas59

Edited on 02/20/2009 2:32:24 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

President Barack Obama said Friday that residents of the US Gulf Coast still are trying to rebuild three years after Hurricane Katrina and have not received the support they deserve from Washington.

His words amounted to sharp, though indirect, criticism of former President George W. Bush's oversight of the Katrina recovery efforts. Katrina was blamed for more than 1,600 deaths and $41 billion in property damage.


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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: katrina; money; obama
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To: Dallas59

Oddly enough not one penny of the stimulus package goes to the Katrina rebuilding efforts.


21 posted on 02/20/2009 2:11:21 PM PST by usmcobra (Your chances of dying in bed are reduced by getting out of it, but most people still die in bed)
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To: Centurion2000

Had em across the street from me. The local shopping center became deluged with people trying to sell those vouchers for cigarettes. Graffiti went from little if any to huge multi colored words that can’t be repeated here.


22 posted on 02/20/2009 2:11:35 PM PST by Dallas59 ("You know the one with the big ears? He might be yours, but he ain't my president.")
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To: Squantos

You’re looking for the term “FUBO”


23 posted on 02/20/2009 2:11:43 PM PST by MrB (The 0bamanation: Marxism, Infanticide, Appeasement, Depression, Thuggery, and Censorship)
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To: Dallas59

The reason N.O. didn’t get enough help is because local Democratic government robbed them blind!!!! There was a ton of money stolen by Dem political system in that area. Corrupt to the core.

I see this as an area of attack in the next election/fight. Inner city Democrats need to be educated about the enslavement of whole communities. I hear more and more minorities speaking up!! Time to fan those flames...


24 posted on 02/20/2009 2:11:57 PM PST by montesquiue
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To: Dallas59

How come the only place we ever hear about is New Orleans, what about yhe rest of the Gulf States, they suffered a direct hit.


25 posted on 02/20/2009 2:13:11 PM PST by Rumplemeyer
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To: Dallas59
Obama: One Big-Ass Mistake, America!

Getcher T-shirts right here.

Wish I'd thought of it.

26 posted on 02/20/2009 2:14:10 PM PST by Defiant (If they put Bush in prison, it will let us know which one to storm.)
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To: Rumplemeyer

I liked Gulf Port Miss.


27 posted on 02/20/2009 2:14:47 PM PST by Dallas59 ("You know the one with the big ears? He might be yours, but he ain't my president.")
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To: Dallas59

Meanwhile, there are still people in Western Kentucky and Eastern Missouri that haven’t had their power restored from an ice storm some 3 weeks or so ago. But they’re white gun-clingers so they don’t matter to the racist in the white house.


28 posted on 02/20/2009 2:15:46 PM PST by meyer (The left is flooding the ship - let's quit bailing water. We are all John Galt.)
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To: Rumplemeyer

How come the only place we ever hear about is New Orleans, what about yhe rest of the Gulf States, they suffered a direct hit.
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Exactly!!!! I live in MS and Haley Barbour handled our crisis on the coast like a true champion. The difference is one is a Republican and largely Republican gov’t and the other is Democrat.


29 posted on 02/20/2009 2:16:04 PM PST by montesquiue
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To: Dallas59

How much help did the Ice Storm 2009 survivors get Obama?

Did you even mention them? Anywhere? Anytime?


30 posted on 02/20/2009 2:16:34 PM PST by autumnraine (Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose- Kris Kristoferrson VIVA LA REVOLUTION!)
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To: Dallas59

FUBO!


31 posted on 02/20/2009 2:16:51 PM PST by Batman11 ("Big ears isn't my President!")
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To: Williams

I love how Bush was “flying over a flooded area”.

As if he was supposed to land in the water for God sake.

Obama was up the road from the Ice storm area and didn’t even bother to ride by.

This man is seriously mentally ill and his supporters are just as deranged for not understanding how stupid this is.


32 posted on 02/20/2009 2:18:06 PM PST by autumnraine (Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose- Kris Kristoferrson VIVA LA REVOLUTION!)
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To: Dallas59

33 posted on 02/20/2009 2:18:24 PM PST by Islander7 (If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.)
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To: MrB

This turd has been in office for a month and I am sick of his socialist crap as are MOST Americans IMO. Even the stupid ones that voted for him.


34 posted on 02/20/2009 2:18:54 PM PST by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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To: Dallas59

Send more cash cards, those really worked the first time.

Can somebody post that picture of Lootie wading off with the crate full of Heineken? Lootie needs another beer bailout.


35 posted on 02/20/2009 2:19:24 PM PST by Argus (We've gone downtown to Clown Town, and that's where we'll be living from now on..)
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To: Dallas59

How much of this stimulus package was given to them?


36 posted on 02/20/2009 2:19:58 PM PST by Brett66 (Where government advances, and it advances relentlessly , freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
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To: Dallas59
``The residents of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast who are helping rebuild are heroes who believe in their communities and they are succeeding despite the fact that they have not always received the support they deserve from the federal government,'' Obama said in a statement. ``We must ensure that the failures of the past are never repeated.''

Oh really???
So Obama, where was all this 'support' for the Gulf Coast in your stimulus package???

Gulf Coast Congressman Gene Taylor - MS Democrat, was one of the only 7 Democrats who voted against the 'stimulus'!

Obama hates EVERYONE but himself!!!


37 posted on 02/20/2009 2:20:56 PM PST by Wolf-Lake
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To: Dallas59

OMG! We are still paying for their free rent here in Houston 3-1/2 years after the fact! Crime rate rose 25% and official police reports in 2006 and 2007 stated one in every four murders was committed by a Katrina transplant. We inherited over 5000 pedophiles. The jails were emptied and sent here.

I still see them lined up at the Texas Rehabilitative Services collecting their checks and walking across to the Walmart. Then I stand in line with them watching them buy things I can’t afford.

Give me an ever lovin’ break!!! BARF!!!! We are doomed.


38 posted on 02/20/2009 2:21:58 PM PST by carikadon
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To: Dallas59
Hey Obama! The spending bill that you were too lazy to write that you allowed Pelosi to write! Guess what! Not a dime directed to the Katrina Holocaust!

You and the Democrats are now at the wheel, jackass!

39 posted on 02/20/2009 2:22:19 PM PST by avacado (Bipartisanship is when Democrats and Republicans get together to rob the American people blind)
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To: montesquiue

BINGO, we have a winner.


40 posted on 02/20/2009 2:23:14 PM PST by Rumplemeyer
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