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Posted on 06/15/2008 9:31:46 AM PDT by joma89
The flooding in eastern Iowa has reached the point of catastrophe. Towns are overwhelmed, businesses destroyed, and crops are gone. A fifth of the corn and soybeans are gone. Fox News is calling it "Iowa's Katrina." Here is a gallery of aerial phtographs at the web site of the newspaper I used to deliver every afternoon, the Iowa City Press-Citizen.
The thing is, though, the people of eastern Iowa seem to be stepping up in the Iowa stubborn way. I have seen any number of man-on-the-street interviews, and nobody is complaining. They all seem to be working to solve their problem, which is not surprising because Iowans do not complain about tragedy. They complain about hot weather and dry weather, but not tragedy. And I have looked for reports of looting and come up empty so far.
Katrina has become a metaphor for many things beyond natural disaster, including governmental and individual incompetence (depending on your point of view). In Iowa there is a 500 year flood, but the people are not paralyzed, whining, or looting. There will be no massive relief effort from around the world, and nobody will step up to help Iowans except for other Iowans. Yet years from now, there will be no Iowans still in FEMA camps.
The difference is not in the severity of the flood, but in the people who confront the flood.
Not one MSM story about the government not doing enough to "save" the people of Iowa. Why? We all know why...but no one wants to admit it. Iowa is white, Louisiana is black. The government can only be racist against blacks, not whites. This is the Cultural Marxism's answer and we need to fight against this mentality every time it shows its "ugly face".
JoMa
Excellent..
So it’s not ‘Bush’s fault’ yet?
Hmmm... there's that pesky Republican favored word "working." Simply amazing the problems that can be solved by simply working.
You’d think there would be at least a few democrat Iowa pols hoping for a job in an Obama administration taking advantage of the moment to posture for the cameras “Kathleen Sibelius and the Kansas tornado”-style and get in their Bush licks...
Iowans don’t “loot” or wait for other people to come to their rescue. The floods of 1993 there were considered a “500 year” flood, as well. Lived in Des Moines at the time, and we had no running water. No comparison to Katrina, though, in severity (went through that, as well) but not a good situation.
The truth is far uglier even than that.
The people of Iowa are capable of solving their own problems.
The people of New Orleans were inherently incapable of solving their own problems [and will remain inherently incapable of solving their own problems into the forseeable future, for literally millennia on end].
But that's not the worst of it.
Guess who's making the babies now, and who's not making babies anymore?
Of U.S. Children Under 5, Nearly Half Are MinoritiesPrepare for the worst - a terrible maelstrom is coming.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/09/AR2006050901841.html
After the ‘93 floods, the director of the Des Moines Water Works had a 12 foot wall constructed around the main water treatment facility. The press derided his expenditures as excessive with jokes - “Fort McMullan” etc. Bet nobody is laughing now.
although I have not (recently) been following tv news, I do know one thing the socialist hate is for anyone but especially Americans to stand on their own and succeed.
Think about it, if a big deal is made illustrating the differences between the helpless (and useless) Katrina-ites and the people of Iowa what will that achieve?
Nothing good for the socialist movement that's for sure...
Dont broadcast that too loud, all the hood rats from LA and Chi town will be running down there to see what they can snag.
“The difference is not in the severity of the flood, but in the people who confront the flood.”
There were millions affected by Katrina and Rita who simply went back to what was left of their homes and businesses and picked up the pieces and got on with lives. The MSM never bothered to tell their stories of recovery, but instead chose for political reasons to continuously report on the small number of welfare cases who never could take care of themselves even before the flood.
How to say this... The people of Iowa are not like the people of New Orleans. Nobody in Iowa is going to be sitting around in a government trailer two years from now waiting for somebody to come make their lives better.
I did hear that most of those flooded did not have flood insurance, so they’ll be expecting government aid.
Amazing how those Americans in Iowa and Wisconsin haven’t been on the TV shows whining the past few weeks.
Probably too busy helping out their neighbors.
Ironically, I went to the library here yesterday and checked out a book about Katrina (photo/essays) and the text in the book is, of course, blaming Bush for Katrina.
My hubby was listening to a talk show the other day to a guy who said he was at a swank hotel in NO and ran into a man living there compliments of FEMA, three years after that hurricane. He had a FEMA trailer, sold it, now FEMA is paying for him to stay in the hotel. The radio guy said this man had no intention of looking for a job, or getting into his own home. Before the storm hit, he was living in poverty, now he lives like a king.
Agreed. There are no absolutes here.
The point I was making was more the MSM following the Cultural Marxism rule that the government can only be racist against blacks. Since there aren’t many blacks in Iowa to interview (although I am sure there are some), then no racism exists. Note that there were plenty of poor white people who stayed in the Superdome after Katrina, but the MSM would rarely, if ever, show a picture of those white people. The only pictures shown were those of black survivors to support the Cultural Marxism claim of institutional racism by the US Government.
JoMa
“I have seen any number of man-on-the-street interviews, and nobody is complaining. They all seem to be working to solve their problem,”
As I recall, I don’t remember many folks on the Mississippi gulf coast bellyaching, even though they got the brunt of Katrina.
Because of the chocolates, Katrina is still the most overrated disaster in history.
God only knows how much money has been wasted on the N.O. “victims”, from cruise ships to almost 3 years of housing and payouts. Bush, however still gets all the blame.
It will take a whole army of Jindals to clean up the cesspool of Louisiana.
and this
Bus tickets from NOLA to Des Moines are very expensive today with the current price of gas...
Where are Bush Sr. and his buddy Klintoon???
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