Posted on 09/01/2005 5:57:30 PM PDT by Uncle Joe Cannon
Apples and oranges.
Most comprehensive and IMO correct post on this thread.
At this point all that's needed is money. Wait. I take that back. They've been asking for volunteers. The number was 1-800-SAL-ARMY. But they don't want people coming down there on their own. There's no food and nowhere to sleep.
I would drive down and pick up someone needing a ride. As as a Oklahoman used to tornadoes, not there to view destruction. There to help a neighbor. Don't know if you ever heard, but had a bombing in OK back in the '90's. People, wonderful people helped out there. Don't remember minding the help.
Well thats good, I'm sure the President would love to hear your opinion.
I'm sure he would. Just what they need is more useless mouths in the way.
People helping is always needed.
Now that nothing is needed, why do the news keep reporting that help is needed?
You said nothing about help. You wanted individuals to just drive down there, THAT won't help.
And you you know that, how?
Nice
how the hell did we win a war if we can't handle someone shooting at us???????
They CAN'T shoot back. The Dem weenies in control haven't authorised it. AND there are too many non-combatants in the way to take the chance. Firing from a chopper isn't exactly precise.
Oh yeah, how? Do you really things would be all that different down there? We pay billions and billions in taxes for planning for a nuke or WMD, do you think the response would be at all different?
You're out of control and if you haven't been banned or suspended yet, I suggest that you give yourself a timeout before you are.
Nice hot cocoa and cinnamon toast might be in order. I'm saying this as a well-wisher.
Why are the authorities and MSM pumping sunshine up our asses regarding the death toll. 100 here, 118 there. There will be 50,000 when the final tally is made.
Taxes are what we owe the governemnt for what we ask it to do.
They did plan, they failed to adapt their plans when things changed.
An old axiom in the military is that no battle plan survives contact with the enemy.
Clearly the mayor of New Orleans and the governor of Louisana never learn that axiom.
Actually that is not true. The private ambulance services have been going into the city from day one until they said screw it. The buses are driving into the city from the west and back out to Houston. The State and local government BLEW IT AND PEOPLE ARE PAYING WITH THEIR LIVES. Take a city, remove a large part of the law abiding citizens, cut off electricity, water, sewage, effective law enforcement, communications, lighting and let it go for 4 days and this is what you get.
They should have had water, the hospitals secured on day two. As far as the f'ing superdome goes they had to know what would happen if they kept those people there. They locked them in without enough people to control them and people are being raped and killed and starved. It is unforgivable.
Call the number and see what they say.
And you you know that, how?
It's been on the news. Even in a news conference, the Prez stated that all that they needed right now was funds. Not wanting people to drive down there has been clearly stated.
I say 15K dead.
They look like complete fools.
They said on Fox that they won't let you in. Only AUTHORISED vehicles are allowed anywhere near NO.
In the last year or two I have read more than one or two articles on FR - in depth articles, about the exact scenario that has now happened. Not the mayhem created by subhuman scum, but the water damage, and everything that that entails. In detail.
Those who could have done something did indeed know exactly what would happen, and they did not plan properly. To put it very mildly.
Degeneracy is a lifestyle choice made easier when food, housing and medical care are provided at other people's expense. The vile behavior is a "saw the chance and took it" thing; they're not "deparaved on acounta they're deprived."
Well I've been watching the MSM news. Saw an interview of someone on a rooftop desparate. They wanted to know where the caravans of buses of help were? Not my idea! Theirs! But I'm safe here in my home with air conditioning and food and drinks. They probably don't know what is best for them! Stupid me!
If they won't let anyone in, how the heck are these people going to get out? I've seen many elderly that can't wheel themselves down the highway or be self reliant as some would suggest.
Go ahead. Keep telling fellow freepers how ashamed you are of them. Tell them they are heartless they are and how their words will haunt them. Just be sure to go to church Sunday.
Rudy could have stepped up to the plate.
No Government diaster plan survives contact with a catogory 4+ hurricane.
There I made a new axiom. The real question is what to do next.
I say march the people out of New Orleans that want to be saved, the thugs won't leave their ill gotten gains and any of the marchers that have looted items will quickly tire of carrying them.
In the end we can save more by getting these people out of there then by leaving them to sit and wait.
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