Posted on 08/20/2006 8:08:20 AM PDT by My Favorite Headache
Some NOLA folks are terminally stuck on stupid. Too bad there is no press on the other side of the state that was just as devastated by a similar sized storm. Hell, things are moving and growing so fast here my head is spinning. The difference is people are self sufficient and extremely resourseful.
MUST use spell check... resourseful = resourceful...
That is the best looter guy photo yet!
baloney. everyone knows it was Karl Rove.
Too bad Spike wasn't in NO during Katrina. We'd be spared his horrible films.
Yeah it all is Bushes fault,even the looters they were hungry and had to loot to stay alive...
Houston absorbed almost 100,000 freeloaders. Murder, rape, robberies and gang violence spiked for 6 months poat Katrina.
should be "post"
Ask Baton Rouge how their crime rates are doing. I know some people who wish these 'wonderful people' would go home!
Stupid people still depend on the government for everything. When you are raised thinking like that nothing is ever going to change. They aren't going to wake up one day and suddenly realize they must take care of themselves.
For these idiots to blame Katrina on President Bush makes them no better.
Spike Lee is doing this for MONEY, nothing else. If he was so concerned about New Orleans he would have been down there helping to REBUILD IT, not making a film about it.
It's a Spike Lee movie, of COURSE Bush is the villian!
What a bunch of nonsense. The majority of the people of New Orlean who experienced Katrina, including those who have lost their houses, say that it was a case of too many unexpected factors converging. They don't blame anyone.
Total horse hockey. I'd venture to guess that the majority of the black residents of New Orleans who were displaced didn't even OWN their homes, so what did they lose except their personal possessions and a place to lay their heads? If they were on any sort of welfare, they came out ahead of everyone else because they can still get that welfare check no matter where they live.
I feel sorry for the black and white people of New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast, poor, middle class and rich, who lost the homes they OWNED and had absolutely NOTHING left. Their net worth was likely mostly tied up in that property, so they had nothing with which to start over. Many have not been able to start re-building their lives because they've been waiting for their insurance companies to determine what, if any, money they would receive for the destruction of their homes. Many folks will come out of it owing tens of thousands on mortgages for homes that simply are not there, and they have to replace them from their own pockets. Many are doing so, slowly, but the other major holdup has been that many businesses have not yet re-opened, so these folks still have no jobs.
Spike Lee is such an opportunist, he disgusts me.
Oh, I remember this woman. No surprise at all that she'd be featured so prominently. IIRC, they actually let her speak before Congress, regardless of the fact that she's completely Nucking Futs.
Yeah, that'll help the Katrina recovery immensely. Attaboy, Spike.
You nailed it !!!
It takes time to pho..uh direct a documentary.
Gotta keep black voters on the plantation.
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