DING DING DING - we have a winner, no more calls, please...
Hollyflakes are most likely still donating to a lost cause somewhere else... understand that many Katrina victims are still on the dole three years later...
Of course, they were on the dole before Katrina hit... it's a life-long entitlement that these folks expect.
And, if the contributions don't continue to come, "that's racist".
From an email I received this morning:
Just wondering...
Where are all of the Hollywood celebrities holding telethons asking for help in restoring Iowa and helping the folks affected by the floods?
Where is all the media asking the tough questions about why the federal government hasn’t solved the problem?
Why isn’t the Federal Government relocating Iowa people to free hotels in Chicago?
When will Louie Farakhan say that the Federal Government blew up the levees that failed in Des Moines?
Where are Sean Penn and the Dixie Chicks?
Where are all the looters stealing high-end tennis shoes and big screen television sets?
When will we hear the mayor of Cedar Rapids say that he wants to rebuild a “vanilla” city, because that’s the way God wants it?
Where is the ranting and raving 24/7 media coverage complete with reports of cannibalism?
Where are the people declaring that George Bush hates white, rural people?
Why the huge cover-up of all you Iowans and Missourians and other ‘fly-over-ites’ shooting at rescue helicopters?
Why are you Midwesterners a bunch of kool-aid drinkers…when you’re told that danger is approaching and you need to evacuate your homes for your family’s safety, you guys go and…well… leave.
Why do I know that in 2 weeks we will never see anything on Iowa or Missouri and the rebuilding and the people getting on with their lives on the liberal news.
Bless all the folks affected by this disaster, and know that the thoughts of millions of Americans are with you. Some real Americans do notice the differences…we have been discussing them privately. For some reason none of this can be talked about publicly.
Maybe if they blamed George Bush, Globull Warming, Israel and Iraq for the flood.....
Excuse me?
Inquiring minds already know ... The Left is against anything American, and for anything that will tear Her down.
You, my friend, are undoubtably an American.
I, and every other American, wish you well, and a speedy recovery.
Carolyn
“The pic in the article shows a hog confinement under water. Maybe they all forgot that the “food” is underwater in the Midwest!”
The Hollywood types would be more likely to go after the farmer for letting his hog operation pollute the new, pristine “wetlands”.
All I have heard is from my church, and from the local school district. Both are gathering materials for you. The school says it is for Cedar Rapids. The church is more general.
D. All the above
BTW, Oakville is still underwater.
“Why are you ignoring us? Are we too humble? Are we too unworthy because we help ourselves and each other?”
No, you’re TOO WHITE, TOO MIDDLE CLASS, and TOO MIDDLE AMERICA.
Sharon Stone commented on this recently. I believe she said “Is this karma? When you’re a red state, do bad things happen to you?”
I know an old guy who, in his youth, lived in the area. He noted some cornfields that flooded so frequently that they could be confused with rice paddies.
He also noted that there was never any serious effort to do anything about it.
When he moved out West to Phoenix, he made sure to get land on high ground away from the Salt River, which had been dry for 70 years. A decade later it had its first flood, which destroyed many of the buildings foolishly built in the river bottom. They said it was a “hundred year flood.”
A few years later it flooded again. This time they said it was a “five hundred year flood”. Then it flooded two more times in ten years.
That was enough for the Arizonans. They channelized the river bottom so much that a full dam would have to break to flood out of the river bottom again. And they didn’t care that it might be another 100 years before the next flood.
He said that was the difference between Iowans and Arizonans.
Even if you didn't see it on TV, most of the people harmed in the Katrina floods were nice white folks like you probably are. What's the difference between them and you?
For one thing, in our case, the federal flood control structures failed -- because of poor design and construction, as admitted by the Corps of Engineers in sworn testimony before Congress. Almost all of the recent flooding has been from levees being overtopped -- which never happened in NOLA. Levees are not designed to be structurally sound once they're overtopped.
Second: $Billions of the "aid" received in NOLA consisted of flood insurance payouts. We pay premiums for that coverage, and have for years. What percentage of the current flood victims are policyholders? Not as many as here, friend -- no place in the US has a higher participation rate.
That said -- I don't begrudge whatever aid is sent your way. But spare us the crybaby complaints.
That’s because the people in that part of the country have a set. They don’t wait for the gubmint to hand them out.
Hollywood doesn’t care about white people in flyover country.
A very good and piquant post. Just hope enough people in this country are really paying attention.
I have been asking myself the same question and I guess the answer is unfortunately pretty obvious. That said, there are plenty of Americans that are very concerned about what our citizens in the Midwest have endured.
I wondered about the same thing. Where are all those Hollywood types who went into a frenzy over problems overseas? Has anyone seen those evangelists who solicit funds for alleged overseas aid become concerned about Iowa? At the least, the government should divert some of the foreign aid to Iowa.