[Uncle Sham]

"So Tancredo’s idea will no doubt be shouted down as racist, uncaring, cruel, etc"

Tancredo is incredibly stupid to have said this. Those who would follow such a man belong in the hell-hole to which he leads. His vision is that of a "Pick and Choose" America where tough problems are simply ignored and simpleton solutions are festered up with minimal effort toward acheiving success before giving up all together. If that's who YOU are, follow him. Not me.

[ontap]

So you think we should continue to send money to corrupt politicians.The simpleton solutions you speak of are the same old throw money at it and declare success ones. Tom Tancredo is exactly right. Enough is enough.

[antisocial]

“If that’s who YOU are, follow him. Not me.”

Spoken like a true government educated socialist.

[WatchOutForSnakes]

Simple solutions are all simple people understand. He is just playing to his audience, minuscule as it is thank goodness. I do not know if he has ever been down here since Katrina but if he has not then he has no clue as to what happened down here, just like a lot of freepers who spout cliche after cliche and myth after myth as though it were fact. Tancredo must be getting his information on Katrina from Free Republic, which is mostly wrong on the facts. But facts do not matter. It is cool to be an internet tough guy and kick somebody while they are down.

These people obviously have internet access. The truth is not hard to find if they want to know it.

Freepers might also want to look up the meaning of the words scale or scope when discussing this disaster. To compare this to a tornado or a midwestern flood, while those are very traumatic and damaging to the individuals involved, is in itself showing a complete lack of knowledge of the scope of the damage in this region. It is easy to say "neighbor helping neighbor" when you actually HAVE neighbors who did not suffer a complete loss. But it is a different thing when your "neighbors" for mile after mile after mile also lost everything. It is different when you still can go to the grocery store 6 blocks away. It is different when you can still go to your job next week. It is different when you can go to a motel temporarily a few blocks away. ALL of those things were destroyed down here. I realize that nothing we will say or post will make any difference to most posters but what the hell, that has never stopped me before.

[eyedigress]

Why didn't they just give the residents their 400,000 and let the delta and ocean take back what they should have in the first place. The money is done and the problem is gone.