Bush Steps in to aid in Hurricane Katrina.
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Originally Posted by jedwards,Sep 5 2005, 05:05 PM
Okay NP it's like this: What the heck difference does it make how long it's going to take? Why did you even ask?
If it's going to take 20 years and $1B then feckin do it or close the city. That is the responsibility of the US govt. Are you saying that those bozos in DC are off the hook because they couldn't have done in on time?
If they had started last May I'd have said, 'hey shit happens. Too bad they didn't do it sooner but they didn't have the data'.
Do you know about Hurricane Pam? Seems to me it was all over the press but idiots in the govt did not give the ACE money to do the job. Srs in the ACE are partly to blame... but the levees are a Fed job and they didn't do it.
Did they? Nope they allocated money for pork barrels. That's been on the news for weeks too. You've seen it right?
GW is a bumpkin goober. He's been so preoccupied with his war he has fecked over most of the country. Watch the news tonight. There's a bunch on how his admin has fecked up the FEMA too.
What a disgrace this is. There's a ton of idiots in control... from city to state to feds. I can't believe people want to let the feds hide. That is every bit as much of a disgrace as the inaction itself. That an American can't be proud of his country if his or her leader has fecked up... I don't get it.
Boots on the ground Americans who are working this problem through.... hat's off to you, you poor uber brave SOBs. Too bad your leaders can't find their ass with both hands. Same thing goes to those young kids in Irag and Afganistan.
If it's going to take 20 years and $1B then feckin do it or close the city. That is the responsibility of the US govt. Are you saying that those bozos in DC are off the hook because they couldn't have done in on time?
If they had started last May I'd have said, 'hey shit happens. Too bad they didn't do it sooner but they didn't have the data'.Do you know about Hurricane Pam? Seems to me it was all over the press but idiots in the govt did not give the ACE money to do the job. Srs in the ACE are partly to blame... but the levees are a Fed job and they didn't do it.
Did they? Nope they allocated money for pork barrels. That's been on the news for weeks too. You've seen it right?
GW is a bumpkin goober. He's been so preoccupied with his war he has fecked over most of the country. Watch the news tonight. There's a bunch on how his admin has fecked up the FEMA too.
What a disgrace this is. There's a ton of idiots in control... from city to state to feds. I can't believe people want to let the feds hide. That is every bit as much of a disgrace as the inaction itself. That an American can't be proud of his country if his or her leader has fecked up... I don't get it.
Boots on the ground Americans who are working this problem through.... hat's off to you, you poor uber brave SOBs. Too bad your leaders can't find their ass with both hands. Same thing goes to those young kids in Irag and Afganistan.
Why is hurricane Pam so significant when NO has been facing flood problems for 100+ years? Just because studies resulting from that hurricane quantified the potential damage, the danger was known long ago.
I am not blind to the shortcomings of our government. I just believe it doesn't start at the top. It starts at the bottom. That means every single US citizen. Our government is the way it is because all of us, collectively, allow it to be so. We have only ourselves to blame.
Likewise, our safety begins with ourselves... then our friends and family... then our community... and hopefully our state and national governments.
It's human arrogance that allow people to live in a city below sea level between an ocean, a lake and a river. Nature will always beat human technology.
is that from your mouth, or our trusty leader?
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Originally Posted by zdave87,Sep 5 2005, 08:21 PM
Ask the fine people of New Orleans why they shot at the helicopters/ambulance drivers etc WHO TRIED TO SAVE THE INFIRM???
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So you own quote says it could help. Katrina (and Pam) was only a 4.
Maybe now something will get done... as usual too late for the thousands who died.
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I'm not claiming that it would not have helped.
Our wonderful Army Corps of Engineers (who are very fallible) needed four years just to complete the study. This disaster was not going to be avoided by anything started in this century.
Maybe now something will get done... as usual too late for the thousands who died.
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I'm not claiming that it would not have helped.
Our wonderful Army Corps of Engineers (who are very fallible) needed four years just to complete the study. This disaster was not going to be avoided by anything started in this century.
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Originally Posted by s2000qtee,Sep 5 2005, 05:36 PM
Have either of you met a homeless person? Seriously. Your comments towards the people of the Gulf Coast are missing any sympathy for what they have gone through.
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Originally Posted by s2000qtee,Sep 5 2005, 08:34 PM
THEY ARE F*CKING GOING OUT OF THEIR MINDS!!!!! THEY LOST EVERYTHING!!! DONT YOU PEOPLE UNDERSTAND???? You try losing everything you own, everything you have ever known.....try losing your family members, not knowing whether they are lost or dead. Sure, thats not the way to go about things, but after 3 days of torture and little help, they snapped.
