Posted on 09/06/2005 1:57:49 PM PDT by neverdem
arggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhh..........might just as well give them the same amount of money as the 9/11 families got, and be done with it.........
"This is why every city must have sharp leadership, and a disciplined, non-corrupt police force that won't melt away into the population when under attack, like Saddam's army."
Ooooh! That's gonna leave a mark!
All true. The "cities of the dead" are not the only burial practice evident in New Orleans, though they are certainly a fascinating piece of the city's history.
All they know is dependence...What needs to be stopped is the mass migration to other states. The ones who are able should be forced to rebuild their city instead of sitting in stadiums. Make them useful instead of putting the burden on the rest of America.
Thanks for the ping!
I see that and the "set asides" which will define the budgetary term "pork" in a way we've never before seen. We will see the Professional Race Baiters, Jack$on, Cumming$, $harpton, with their hands out for more "programs" and whining about the homes built.
BTW, I continue to ask when is Jesse Jackson going to pony up part of his 8 billion dollars he extorted from Toyota to assist minorities in job training, blah, blah, blah? Wonder if the MSM will ever get round to asking that. No, I'm not holding my breath. :)
Thanks for the ping. Great article!
Well yeah, but New Orleans is going to fuel the U.S. economy more ways than we realize. For example, how much Lysol will it take to disinfect every square inch of the whole area? And, since it will not be possible to clean inside every wall and cavity of every structure, how much air freshener will be consumed annually in New Orleans to mask the smell of death, decay and human waste that will, doubtless, persist for at least the next half-dozen years or so and be nauseatingly amplified by summer heat and local humidity? Will it perhaps be cheaper to strip every building back to it's structural skeleton and clean and rebuild from there? How many landfills will be the final restingplace of all the destroyed carpet and upholstered furniture, or will all of that be properly incinerated to prevent the spread of life-threatening diseases?? How many production facilities will have to run 24/7 to make all of the carpet to replace that which is destroyed? How many acres of forest will have to be harvested to rebuild the thousands of private residences that were lost? How many General Contractors, Ironworkers, Carpenters, Electricians, Roofers, Glaziers -- tradesmen of every stripe will need to work for how long to get Humpty-Dumpty reconstructed?
And...(the sixty-four-dollar question)...
When it's all finally rebuild, clean, and inhabitable, will the City and State FINALLY allocate the money to provide Category 5 Plus protection for New Orleans and craft a REAL Disaster Plan that incorporates preemptive measures, defines authorities and responsibilities of all the major players as well as parameters and procedures for invoking Federal resources?
This is a nightmare of apocalyptic proportions, and it is clear that City and State government officials have been first-party contributors to it being as bad as it is. In the wake, there need to be criminal charges, trials, convictions, impeachments, imprisonment, and maybe some long-term, bona fide, night-in-the-backwoods-around-the-campfire haunting.
And Hillary! was on Good Morning America this morning - calling for a Katrina Commission that will only examine the federal response. If there had been a brick handy, I would need a new TV now. I'm still as livid as I have ever been in over a decade of political activism.
I earlier joked that the Dems would pull a 9-11 Commission and put Blanco on the Katrina Commission. Well, they are trying to do the next best thing - keep any Katrina Commission from looking into local and state failures - just problems with the federal response.
And that means they are just as unconcerned about fixing disaster response as they were about fixing intelligence failures. And people will die again in the future as a result.
Ping.
The Dems used Hurricane Andrew to destroy #41 - watch them use Katrina to promote Hellary!
If the voting public is sucked in again - $%^$&^%# %%$!!~~#
OMG
sp (Start Praying)
Thanks. I'm glad it was posted. It really does tell it like it is.
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