CaptnKirk
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- Jul 25, 2002
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Originally posted by: Genx87
Everybody is on their own, poor or rich, that isnt the point. The point is CaptKirks assertion the republicans are behind people not coming back to NO is hilarious considering who actually controls the power in that region.
The United States
A idea lost on the left looking for central authority.
Bubba - If the GOP would have been the ruling party in Louisiana and in New Orleans they would have fallen all over themselves
trying to rush in assistance like they tried to do with their buddies Trent Lott and Haley Barbour in Missing-Hippie.
But then, they didn't even get that right, did they.
Trent is fighting the insurance companies, who won't pay up - as is Barbour, but that is mostly for themselves
even though ther will be some colateral benefits to those wealthy victims who lost stately homes nearby,
but those who need the most assistance are cut loose to twist in the wind, since there has been very little done
to ascertain the apperance of progress in a section of the country that was severely damaged,
not by the storm itself, but the cumulative result of waste, fraud, and sneaky cutting of budgets for the Corp of Engineers -
disregard for propper funding of the levy system that was built to protect one of the biggest Port Facilities in the United States.
When the levies failed, the people who live nearby were inundated by the water that never should have come in.
They failed at a lower level of storm damage then they had been designed to withstand.
Shoddy work, inferior materials, and just plain bad engineering.
New Orleans wasn't below sea level when it was founded 200+ years ago - the city sank in elevation because of
poorly designed and horifically under funded infastructure, and wasting of the protective barrier wetlands.
Political blackmail and extortion has been the common denominator for New Orleans- seems like forever
and frankly Scarlett . . they don't give a damn.