amen!

Same song, 2nd verse with the people that bought cheap houses & lots under airport landing patterns, near industrial zones, by hi-voltage transmission lines, the beat goes on...

Billy

I agree that the fed. govt. does not exist to bail out people who are stupid. The problem is that this country rewards stupidity. I crack up every time I see a tabacco company lose a lawsuit because somebody was harmed by smoking. Do you honestly believe that anyone who smokes didn't believe that it wasn't harmful in some way when they started? Give me a break!

Instead of taking care of themselves, everybody is always looking for someone else to blame for their own problems.

I looked at The Vent and my personal favorite was this guy:

I pledge allegiance to the dollar,/ Of the United States of America./ And to the corporations,/ To which it belongs,/ One nation, under our fundamentalist God,/ In Bankruptcy,/ With fear and wiretaps for all.

Do you think this guy has a problem accepting his own failures in life? I think I already know his political affiliation.

"If his prophecies come true (which fortunately they won't) the seas will rise and Nawlins will be even further below sea level"

This is the PERFECT statement
I can't believe others have not seen this point
If PopeAlGore IS RIGHT the Government should never provide assistence to any area that will be under water soon
Great Points Denny

What a bout a different moron!

"How did we elect Bush twice?" Gere asked rhetorically while promoting his new film, "The Hunting Party."

"What's interesting to me is how do the bad people among us end up our leaders?" the 58-year-old actor said at a news conference Monday.

Got it http://movies.msn.com/news/article.aspx?news=274222>1=7701

Maybe the actors, rock stars and limo lefties could spare us the harangue and throw a rock concert or dig into their own pockets for a change instead of insisting that the taxpayers pay to fix Nawlins.

I'm dreaming again. Sorry.

they did a feature a couple weeks ago in the Dallas Morning News on "what happened?" to local Katrina refugees. Struck me when a young single mother said that she thanks God each morning for her beautiful apartment, great job, and wonderful schools for her kids. I guess thats what happens when you don't have coruption as your city's main skillset.

You are right den. Plow that MF in, build something upstream and above sea level.

You know, I don't mind diaster relief for New Orleans.

Not totally.

It was the .fed that financed (via the incredibly convoluted, corrupt, and inept Levee Boards) the Levees that failed.

But at some point, I've got to ask How damn much is enough? We patched the levees, we flew everybody to safety, we fed, clothed, and provided shelters via low cost/no cost trailers trucked in at great expense...

And yet I keep hearing that we need to do "more".

The Washington Times today reports that federal spending on Hurricane Katrina has already surpassed what was spent to rebuild Europe after World War II.
The Marshall Plan, after adjusting for inflation, poured $107.6 billion into European countries for the purposes of rebuilding and redevelopment. Meanwhile, we have spent more than $127 billion on Hurricane Katrina rebuilding and redevelopment.

What the Liberals don't want to accept, is that the NO that's not rebuilding is their "utopian society". Equality of squalor. Low-stress "working" conditions.

The people who have decided that that's not for them - they're working in Houston, or Arkansas, or Atlanta. Or they're rebuilding or rebuilt their house, business.

After 2 years, with that much money flowing in, there is no way you could conceivably be sane and suggest that more money would make things any better.

That's with nothing but hundreds of thousands of those "highly professional" bureaucrats there to make sure the "process goes smoothly".

(If you were to put a dollar value on the amount of labor that churches, alone, have pumped into New Orleans, I think that cost would double - triple, if you count college kids). And what have they managed to succeed against that morass?

They learned a lot about life, I bet.

Ever know why all the black players in football gets on the camera and says "Hi Mom?" Because they don't have a clue who their father is. I could say that I'm sorry but these same guys will perpetuate the problem and themselves become one of them. I recently read where one basketball player had fathered 9 children and had never been married or payed child support then they expect the tax payer pick up the tab. The same thing in New Orleans. Can one imagine fathers day there. Very confusing indeed.

Neal Boortz had a neat idea shortly after the Hurricane wiped those idiots from their "below sea level" city. He wondered out loud if we should rebuild NO on a similiar platform as Venice. In other words, break the levies, let the area flood and build the city "elevated" off the water that rises. Then you could have gondola (spelling?) rides, lots of water related tourist traps etc. It would also make the gang banging and murderers have a lot tougher time doing their drive by's. What would the be called "float by's"? or "ski by's"? Anyway, we all know how the unsavory element down there ain't too fond of water, so we'd kill two birds with one stone, run off the undesirables and rebuild in a way that might actually survive should another force of nature coming through. I really wish someone would look at all the science involved in doing this and consider making the area America's Venice.

So Nagin wants to make New Orleans a "chocolate city"?

Fine, but remember, "If it's brown, flush it down."

Bravo.

"If the federal gummint functioned like it should, like the Founders set it up to do, the federal gummint would tell Nawlins to GFY and do its own rebuilding."

Denny-
~CLINK~

I think since FEMA and the corps of engineers failed so badly we should shut both of them down tomorrow.
That way the fine people of N.O. and thier oustanding chocolate leader can do the work themselves. That way only they are responsible if the dams dont hold and the water comes rushing in again . We can just write them some big ass checks and say there ya go, Have fun ya'll - but you better hurry those storms can pop up at any time ya know.
We did our good deeds we gave you the bucks now sink or swim its your choice .

YESSSSSS!
You guys are all right on. What I took from GWB on the tv last week was this. First he visited N.O. and talked about having hope, and then when he toured in Miss. he talked about them being proud of their accomplishments, over-coming the obstacles etc. Well, he said something like that and how in Miss. the Repub state guys worked with the fed guys and so on. I thought about it, he wasn't really pandering was he? Maybe he was alittle bit. Comparing and contrasting the two leads me to believe in the can-do's and not the poor me folks who needed a FEMA check for a tatoo and a plasma tv. How about the good folks who were washed out of town-state, and now the banks/mortage co.s are forclosing on their property. Now that's crummy indeed.

I emailed the WH (yeah I know, futile effort)when this happened and suggested that they level the flooded areas and use these new dredge sgips that scoop up 450,000 cubic yards of river and sea bottom in 90 minutes and discharge it about as fast from high pressure pipes. Have earth moving equipmentmove it inland and raise NO to 20+ feet above sea level. Lay new infrastructure on raw land instead of cutting curbs and such and then let people rebuild on their same lots on about 30 feet higher than before. It would actually cost less this way and be a permanent fix too.

Ralph,

Ray "Chocolate" Nagin's actual words were,

"We as black people, it's time, it's time for us to come together. It's time for us to rebuild a New Orleans, the one that should be a chocolate New Orleans.... This city will be chocolate at the end of the day."

It was from an anti-white, anti-American, blatantly racist speech of his.

(Denny: sorry to have linked Wikipedia, but it's not all bad, and this article is less unbalanced than many.)

I guess the folks in the carolinas devastated by Hugo and the floridans nailed by Andrew will have to keep waiting on their FEMA cards....

The thing about the Andrew clean up that pissed me off the most was that Homestead Air Force Base was slated for closure, it was on the BRAC (Base Realignment and Closure) list and the remedial investigation (figure out what and how bad any environmental problems there are) and feasibility study (figure out how to fix the identified environmental problems) was in the process of being done. Andrew levels Homestead and GHWB does his photo op and promises to rebuild a base that in 1988 was identified as being unneccessary.

dc