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Originally Posted by golimar
Democrats support lawlessness and victim mentality.
As an immigrant to US, I feel sorry for the Black population to still be in chains that are jerked around by the Democrat party.
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Enter Katrina....for the record, when hurricane Andrew hit South Florida in 1992, the media didn't catch on for 4-5 days...many of us were helping the new homeless with everything imaginable and THEN the media jumped in....at the time, it was the single worst natural disaster in US history.....25 Billion in 1992....anyway, after they rebuilt Homestead (less the AFB) it was better than before....kind of like a Martial plan for South Florida....best thing that ever happened to quite a few of those homes was they were blown away.....fast forward, 13 years later....Katrina...
Despite the terrible devastation, Mississippi was hit as hard or harder....hardly a camera, hardly a story....the victim mentality sank in with most in the dome...within 5 days they tore the place apart....the government should do this, the government needs to do that and who do we blame....for days the forecasters WARNED those in New Orleans to get the f out and not waste time....to no avail for many.....the looting started, Heraldo did his best "oh the humanity" speech....and the National Guard kicked in....sure, they could have done more but, no one had a smooth chain of command and the delays were inevitable.....
Not sure if you know it or not but, many of those trailers from FEMA were eventually auctioned off on government sites...you could bid routinely on them...and how were they returned???? almost with out exception the foyers were damaged, hookups were gone and electrical was torn up.....that's what happens when you give people things, they do NOT appreciate them...least of all the government's charges in highly urban areas....almost every trailer had been damaged to some extent and almost all electrical service and plumbing was damaged....nice....
When the Shiite is going to hit the fan, YOU need to prepare.....YOU need to take some action and quit waiting for the knights in shining armor.....NO guvmint has that much money not even Barrack's. He would have screwed you too....schools were demolished and all those people who say how much they missed New Orleans have rarely come back, have done nothing to the houses that were once theirs and simply piled on in places like Houston, Atlanta, Dallas, DC, and so on......so, for all the "pride" that was expounded, few have gone back....they are waiting on the guvmint to rebuild the home for them...
As if.
Many carried NO flood insurance, NO homeowners insurance in some cases and now the guvmint is supposed to rebuild it like the Martial plan for New Orleans...as usual NO accountability.....that's what the guvmint's suppose to do...right? WRONG.......in fairness to Chris Christy in Hurricane Sandy, who screwed the taxpayers for 60 billion...with a B, in federal aid....literally twice the amount of the state of New Jersey's annual budget....hurricanes can do quite a bit of damage but, in Sandy's case, NOT 60 billion...yet, he was able to secure it.....so where did the money go???? To fix LONG overdue projects that they couldn't fund....so YOU and I funded it for them....nice.....maybe they need a governor like Chris Christie in Louisiana but, they do have Jindal and he is far, far superior to anything they have had since.....thank god Nagin got caught for all his ill doing....the man that cried the loudest was the same guy shaking the city down for bribes and graft the whole way through.....
And George Bush had nothing to do with Nagin's corruption despite how much the left blames him for everything from Hangnails to foot fungus.........that is all on his own....and right on cue, the media NEVER talks about his graft during Katrina and the immediate aftermath.....that community that leans so hard needs to find their own way to break free. They should have shot the looters and NOT taken the guns away from lawful owners (many of which never saw them again...and hardly a word has been spoken...google it). They catered to the criminal element and then blamed the guvmint for lack of security....incredible....well, when the private investors sweep up most of the 9th ward it will be an improvement....God knows the residents weren't going to do much to fix it...they are still waiting on the guvmint to provide all their needs......
You know the definition of insanity right? Do the same thing over and over again and expect a different result. The Corps of Engineers and their 40 year jobs program was a joke...glorified stiff fence to hold back a river...good luck with that.....now, they want to rebuild the part of New Orleans (2/3) that is literally 12' or more BELOW sea level...this isn't Holland...we apparently don't have anyone that knows how to build a levy so, why would rebuild it....again? The next Category 4 or 5 hurricane is going to do the exact same thing.....when you live below sea level, expect flooding.....and even the guvmint can't prevent that.....
Call New Orleans what it is....a decaying city with no real tax base to fix everything that needs fixing...legendary corruption and graft and nice, healthy crime rate that shows nooooo signs of letting up.....and most of it, 12 feet or more under sea level.....tell me why we should invest 200 billion in fixing that place? Seems to me, we could spend that money building a better toaster or highway or something we can all use but, to poor good money into the 9th ward???? Please...drop a blade and push until all the debris is back in the Mississippi river...maybe it will float down and help rebuild the wetlands...we can only hope...the place is sinking at what? about 1 inch a year?
Nope, spend the money on a newer (northwest of town is higher) part of the city and rebuild there if you have to...turn the 9th ward into a park....cheaper in the long run and when it floods again, no houses lost....nice....
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